Thanks Lilac! Same to you and all the lovely Northern Irelanders!
To All my Norn Iron Bosom Buddies
Have a very Merry Christmas and hopefully will see you all in the New Year.
Watch this space!!
Carolyn xx
Hi Girls
How is everyone? I hope you’re all doing ok and enjoyed the Christmas break.
I’m just so glad to get back to some sort of normality!!
I thought maybe we could start thinking about our next meet up. It takes us a while to get organised so just putting out a few feelers to see how everyone is fixed myabe some Friday/Saturday in the next month or so.
I’ll watch the site for feedback
Meanwhile take care
love Carol xx
Hi carol and all
Happy new yr to you !
Hope you all got through and didn’t indulge tooooo much? I might have on a number of occasions but who’s counting!!!
Look forward to seeing you all again so can I throw a date into the ring?
How’s fri 3rd feb or sat 4feb suit? Day or evening?
Cheers
Maggie
Hi Bosom Buddies!
Happy New Year to you all!
3 or 4 Feb are good for me - Sat 4 lunchtime would be the best. Hope we get something organised - looking forward to seeing you all again. And seeing everything better now. Thanks, Carol, for the glasses - they’re doing a great job!
Isy x
Hi Girls
the 3rd or 4th Feb would also suit me…lunchtime would be great.
Will keep an eye
Hope everyone else can make it and that you’re all doing well
Carol xx
Hi Everyone,
Lunch on 3rd or 4th is good for me too.
Hope you are all keeping well and looking forward to catching up.
Carolyn xx
Oops, just realised I’m doing a car boot sale with EJ on the Saturday. So Friday 3 lunchtime suits best for me.
Isy x
Hi Girls,
Happy New Year to you all.
Saturday 4th feb at lunchtime suits me as I work until 4pm on fridays,
Just a wee update on my wee heart problem,I have seen a heart specialist and on fri 20th I’m having an Mri of my heart ,I saw my oncog on the 9th Jan and told him I was having very bad headaches and blurred vision,he referred me for a Cat scan ,I had this on the 11th Jan 12 two days later,just waiting on the results, my blood pressure is very high so Im hoping that’s whats causing the headaches,next month I’m having a 24hr monitor to record my blood pressure.
Thats all my news for now ,I’ll keep an eye on the site for updates.
Julie xx
Hi Julie
Sorry to hear about your heart problems - this must be a very worrying time for you waiting for results. Big cyber hugs on their way xxxx
Hi girls
I’m still on for the 3rd or 4th Feb, I’ll go with either date and will keep an eye on the site.
Julie,you have been in my thoughts lately and I was wondering how things had panned out with your heart issue.
I’ll be thinking about you and will keep everything crossed for clear results from the scans.
I also have 2 appointments at the hospital this week, for a gynae examination and a back xray. I’ve been having quite a bit of abdominal discomfort lately and a ‘tired’ lower back,so this will hopefully put my mind at rest that ther’s nothing going on except maybe the menopause as apparently my last bolods showed my hormonal levels to be quite high and this could be part of the reason for my discomfort.
Anyway I’ll be in touch and hope everyone else is doing well and look forward to seeing you all soon
Love carol xx
Just re read that posting…bolods means bloods, my typing!!
Well Girls
Are we still on track for a catch up next week ?
We’ve all gone quiet!
carol x
Hi everyone in NI group,
I started in Dec 2011 thread and have only just found you. I’m 61, living in Belfast, dx October 17th 2011 grade 3 partially ER+, mx Nov8th no lymph nodes involved(profile pic taken 11 days later at son’s wedding in London) started FEC on Dec 7th, bald as a coot but loving my wig, not loving unreconstructed breast, more reclusive than ever since dx because utterly terrified of infection but on Neulasta now so might become more daring!
You’re such a sociable lot you put me to shame. If you don’t mInd an anti-socIal intruder, I’ll be watching out for next Belfast gathering after Feb - son and new d-in-law visiting from London then - has to be Belfast or nearby because I don’t drive and don’ t like making more demands on my resident chauffeur because he’s also cook, part-time cleaner and full-time worrier!
Hope you are all feeling as well as I am this lovely wintry morning.
Love to all you brave women,
Kathleen
You’re very welcome Kathleen to the NI thread. Hope we get to meet you in person soon.
Can I suggest Saturday night, 4 Feb? Would that suit everybody? Would love to get down and meet everyone, but if Fri night or Sat lunch suits everyone else better, go with it and I’ll see you all the next time.
Isy x
hi girls lunch time rather than evening on sat suits me best but i can wait to see what suits everyone else … not a problem at all . Kathleen , welcome to our little thread … such a lovely photo . looking forward to meeting you soon and in the mean time hopefully we can arrange a date and time soon for next wk carol x
Hi Everyone
A very warm welcome Kathleen, glad you have found us. We are all at different stages of our cancer journeys and have found it invaluable to speak to others who know exactly where we are coming from and I hope you are also getting the same from this site and hopefully at sometime face-to-face with the rest of us - we love new recruits to our little group. I hope you are tolerating the FEC well and not suffering too many side effects.
I can’t do evenings at all next weekend and between Friday and Saturday, Saturday would suit me better for lunch. Are we staying within the Belfast area? Carol you’re the one with good ideas, where shall we dine? I’m just back from The Plough in Hillsborough and had a lovely meal and thought it would be nice for a Bosom Buddies get together sometime, it would be lovely in the summer.
As usual I will keep checking in. See you all soon.
Carolyn xx
Hi All, and welcome to Kathleen.
I hope we are able to sort something out - Sat 4th at lunchtime (preferably in the Belfast area, or on a train route) would suit me best.
Hi again everyone and thank you for the welcome messages.
I will be doing my best to meet you all at the next get-together after the February one.
Spring seems to be heading our way and I am only too keen to come
out of hibernation this year.
Aren’t we a lucky group to be having our treatment in Northern Ireland where everything we need is given so readily. I’ve discovered from other forums that the very expensive Neulasta treatment I got this week is not always available in other parts of the UK.
We sold up in France and came back here for family reasons just a few months before my diagnosis - someone up there was looking out for me!
Hope everyone is having a peaceful weekend.
Love to all,
Kathleen
Hi girls
Looks like Saturday lunchtime is suiting most people however i can still do Friday lunch time as well if needs be.
A few suggestions where toeat however its open for everyone to put in their spoke.
We havent been to any of these places before for eats so here goes:
Four Winds (maybe a bit out of he way for those without a car)but the food is excellent and I get dicount on the food!
Lily’s Pub and eatery on the Lisburn Road
Or in Belfast city centre The Apartment, Cafe Vaudeville or McCrackens Bar.I know theres lots of eating places so if anyone else
has other preferences post them on the site and we can decide.
We should probably book a atable so lets have a show of hands with your preferred day and place: -)
carol x