Ha. I too am a rebel. I plaster on deodorant daily, have hot bubble baths nightly, forget to slap any cream on boob as never been a body moisturiser type of gal, wear under wired bras, and as yet, after 8 sessions, had no side effects at all. Maybe the odd ache but no pinkness…but maybe at end of 15? My anticancer diet which consisted on nutribullet spinach kale and other greenables and NO alcohol ever again EVER has now been replaced with regular Hendricks G&T which is always served with lashings of cucumber! Oh and cakes…and chocolates - which my hospital leave out on reception desk Jill for all us patients to help ourselves to!!
Yeh,I remember you hitting the kale big time C!!!Hendricks gin is v good!!!Glad you are not having too many ill effects of rads.I have moved on from Galaxy to Green and Blacks as it’s healthier!!!
Got to be Bombay Sapphire for me! One of my friends asked what they put in the gin to make it blue! She was rather embarrassed when I told her the bottle was blue, lol. We still laugh about it.
Bombay is another one of my favourites Francine, when i was diagnosed everyone was sending me flowers but my brother sent me a lovely delivery of posh Gin! Bless him ?
Hi ladies,
I finally got to ring the bell today. I was so excited and it was an amazing feeling. 15 days or rads done - at last! Good luck to everone else who are still having rads.Eileen,
Well done Eileen,another one of us over the finishing line.
Fantastic Eileen. My sessions start on 14 October and I’ve been told to prepare my boob by using Aqueous Cream a week before this. I was thinking more of E45 myself. Any experiences of this?
Aqueous cream is cheaper and has less added to it ,I had a reaction to the lanolin in the E45,never reacted to it before but the treatment makes you more sensitive.
They take a lot of measurements and you have a CT scan, they give you 2 or 3 tiny tattoos to help them line you up right each time you go for treatment .
They are just dots smaller than a freckle ,I can’t find one of mine it’s so small.
Thanks Eileen and Jill for the info on the boob creams. I’ll go with the Aqueous to start with I think and see how we go. I’ve spoken to the radiologist again about the 25 sessions as opposed to 15 and he is quite adamant that I should have 25 due to the size of my boobs (H cup) and because they will be treating quite a large area. Against my nature (!) I have decided to go with his advice and go with the flow. Keep me out of mischief for 5 weeks!
It’s monotonous but you do get into a routine.I took up any offers from people who said they would come with me and tries to do something lunch or shopping on the way home to try and break it up a bit.Good to have the days marked up in some way and cross them off as you go.Also plan some nice(not too strenuous ) things for the weekends.
So annoying…i went to see my Oncologist over a week ago, and asked to go to a different hospital for rads as it will be nearer to me, Addenbrookes in Cambridge instead of North Mid in London. Ive been waiting fpatiently ever since for the planning app and it turns out im actually waiting for another Oncology app with Addenbrookes as they cant just give me the rads, i have to be re referred there first! The waiting to start is really frustrating, i am so desperate to just get on with it (and the rest of my life). Why does every part of this journey take soooooo long?
Sorry about the big moan folks x
I was exactly the same when I went for my planning meeting and CT scan Barb ended up blubbing in the waiting room.You are right it makes you feel vulnerable again .A lot of people feel emotional after a few sessions of rads too, not sure if that is a side effect of the radiation or tiredness or both .
Good luck with your last session today Egret,it’s a good feeling to finish if a bit emotional.I am due to go back to work Monday 4 weeks after finishing.I am still pretty tired but mentally need to go back to “the real world” for my sanity’s sake I think.
All the best Egret,enjoy your holiday and good luck with the book!!
Hello Everyone
Been burying my head in the sand and not coping too well the past week or so.
Was doing really well and feeling so much stronger then (sorry if it’s TMI) but had a very heavy monthly, you know what, on top of trying to go back to work, death of a family pet and a very trying teenager and suddenly I’m on the bones of my a**e again :smileysad:
Had radiotherapy planning appt last week and start rads on 26th Oct and just hoping I feel better and my energy levels improve before then. Ended up at the doctors on Friday as felt so unwell, and now awaiting blood tests as everything else was ok, but even doc said “you don’t look well”.
So sorry to moan on but just so fed up. Everytime I turn on telly or computer the big C seems to be in my face, and it’s all people who are all so strong and positive and “I’m going back to work 2 weeks after op” etc etc!!! Well I am not strong or brave or positive just now, everyone deals with this differently and this is how I am right now and do not want to hear one more person tell me I am brave or stay strong, because I am not and can not, I am just wading my way through this crap as best I can right now !!!
So so sorry to rant on and feel sorry for myself as I know there are others in far far worse positions than myself and I will get a grip eventually and kick myself up the a**e,really tried not to do it in here but eventually realised that I needed to sound off in the only place I felt people would truly understand.
Hope things are going well for everyone who’s having/awaiting treatments :smileywink:
Huge hugs and love to you all :smileywink: xxx
Hi Julie
I know just how you feel. I’m starting 25 sessions of rads on Wednesday and it’s been a long haul since I was diagnosed in January. I’ve had 3 ops and a 10 day stay in hospital and at times felt pretty desperate. Energy levels are pretty low and I’m also waiting for some blood test results tomorrow. Certainly I’ve felt like I could strangle the people telling me to stay positive. No one who hasn’t had BC will know how you feel but we here do. The things you could usually cope with seem to become impossible and everything seems to get on top of you. All I can say is that how you’re feeling is how we’ve all felt at times during this very difficult journey and we all have bad days still. Anyone who says they don’t is probably just putting up a brave front I think. Hang on in there and keep in touch. Sending you hugs. XX Francine
Great post Jo. You sum it all up so well and I hope it helps Julie and anyone else where it all looks very black at the moment. Anyone else who says stay positive to me is going to get a kick up the jacksie or possibly strangulation!
Big hugs Julie. I know exactly what you mean. All I get is we will get thru it your strong. Well I’m not strong and just sometimes I need to cry. But others look at you as if you r feeling sorry for yourself after all the cancers gone. I start my rads tomoro and I’m stressing trying to fit my life around it. I’ve got a wedding next Friday and at mo I can see it far enough ??