Glad to hear you are back home. I to had my masectomy on friday, back home on tuesday with no drains, my armpit feels like a pin cushion, but rest of scar does not feel to bad, I also get my results on wednesday so will keep my fingers crossed for both of us.I am not having a reconstruction and am getting on quite well with my softie. Had a really down day yesterday as I am right handed and it is my right side, got frustrated at not being able to do simple things, like brush my hair as I cant get my arm that high. Still the main thing is this cancer has been taken away and hopefully I can get on with my life shortly.
I am glad you are now both home and recovering from your ops! Be sure to take things easy and allow your lovely hubbies to look after you. I had my mastectomy in March and like you was just sooo relieved that the tumour had been removed. I felt much better about losing one of my lovely boobies as I knew it was a small price to pay to get rid of that little bu**er!!!
So, be sure to take it easy and allow yourselves to be pampered!! Keep doing the exercises they give you, it’ll really aid your recovery,
hi girls
thanks for you comments it is nice to know there are people out there with some compassion
and good thoughts,this is when you need them.
before i left hospital i was surpossed to see physio this was a women who came with a piece of paper and said 2 days later you are doing your exercises arn’t you ??.
so i have made up some fun names for some of them.
the one where you are lifting up above your head is my balerina pose with out my tutu and the one where you cross your arms in front of your chest is my russian dance routine.
cant’ do the back scratch becuase i have that fella called arthur-itus.
but i thank you all for replying back to me.it is worth coming on this site for the re-assurance
you get.
my left arm is my doninant arm andwhere i have lost my breast.but i am more determined to get it going as i can not do anything with my right.though i am learning.
getting in the bath is one of the things i can not do myself so i need the shoulder of my hubby for this, and he washes me down that side to ,getting out is a bit easyier.
i have mastered the bed routine i have another pillow down my right side and roll over to place my left arm on it.at least i am having a reasonable nights sleep now.and do i get tired very quick but that is excpected i am to beleive.
but the word is “soldier on” and you will beat this.
i m going to scarborough next week-end in my motorhome for the week-end and am i looking forward to that!!!.
Good for you hope you enjoy your break. I thought I was doing well until I decided to go out with my daughter for a walk only walked for about three quarters of an hour but boy did I need a nap. Know what you mean about the exercises, Im dominant right and that the blighter they took off, left hand not good for much.
hi sweetheart
thanks for the reply
i have now got trouble going to the toilet god this is excrucuating not been constipated for years.must be them pills thy gave me.
but i am going throught he ringer with this one.took some senokot but you know when you are frightened to go because you are scared for the pain.and the starin you have to go through to go anyway.
have you managed to comb your hair yet???
practise playing the balernia pose and having a laugh it does work"“”
The toilet thing is awful, bc nurse told me the pain killer Im taking would cause constipation, she wasn’t far wrong. All senokot did was give me belly ache and didnt work ho hum, bc nurse said eat loads of fruit, yeh okay but just how much can a girl eat in one day to have any effect? Managed to brush my hair this am must be improving. Fingers and toes crossed for both of us tomorrow.
I started upping my fruit intake this week so that I can avoid the severe constipation I had after my first op - thankfully I had some Preparation-H in the medicine cabinet so avoided really developing bad piles but the pain was excruciating so I really do sympathise Glyntel.
I’ve just taken the time to read the info leaflet with the Co-Codamol tablets I’m taking :-
SIDE EFFECTS - faecal impaction / incontinence / spurious diarrhoea / abdominal pain / colonic obstruction / constipation / confusion / drowsiness / skin rash / nausea / vomiting / facial flushing / dry mouth / blurred or double vision / dizziness / malaise / tiredness / headache / anorexia / vertigo / slow or rapid heartbeat / breathing difficulties / problems in passing urine / convulsions / hallucinations / nightmares / uncontrolled muscle movement or rigidity / mental depression / stomach cramps / swelling / itching / low blood counts…and…if you take medicine to treat diarrhoea there is a risk of SEVERE CONSTIPATION!!!
Yes, I’m taking the tablets again but my fingers (and legs!)are very firmly crossed
Hi there. Suffered from constipation for many years now. Try getting a bottle of Lactulose from the Chemist. I get it on prescription and it is very good.
hi girls
just a quick note while i wait for my chaufer to come and pick me up to take me to hospital
(good this being waited on while i can not dirve)
bless him i love him to bits.lost it a bit last night must have been the constipation and the pain in my left side together but o.k. today.
the senokot is working i have been but not like a big bomb shell letting off as my bum is sore from the last time.but getting there.
i have had a banana and orange todayplus my weetabix so if that does not get me going then begger it.
talk to you later with results and treatment .
bye for now
glyntel
hi girls
whent for my results last wednesday i had to have some fluid drained off around my inplant but that was not too bad, i had a cat 2 tumer and 1out of the 20 lymph nodes removed had some cancer in it.
so it is off to the cemo man on the 24th of this month to see when my treatment starts .wiether it be at christies or bolton i do not know have to wait and see,go on wednesday again this week to see surgeon again might have to have some more fluid drained don’t know yet .then it is a toss up which comes first the cemo or the inflation process so every 2 weeks for that and poss 1 every 3 weeks for cemo which is what my surgeon said.i might get an answer off my cemo man if i can still go on holiday on the 24th november to sunny teneriffe then again it might be a no no,so it might be cornwall as a substitute.
my dad has now been assesed to going into a residential home so i am know looking for a home for him.it never stops but it least it keeps my mind on something else i surpose.
i am feeling well under the circumstances and doing better than i hoped i would but for this god dam numbness and swelling under my left arm it is nausiating the dull pain you have.
i went away this weekend to scarborough in my motorhome it was brilliant a lot of fun i even managed to have a jive with my husband i was so excited to do that i really feel on top of the world but i surpose there will be some bad days as well.
but hey the rough comes with the smooth doesn’t it.
sweetheart how did your results go!!!
So glad you are back on, my results were no lymph involment, but dcis low grade very close to chest muscle, so have to have five weeks of rads, cant start until I am six weeks post op, so awainting appointment with onc to start the planning. Also have to be able to get my hand above my head, to be able to have rads, this is proving difficult as I have some cording, so at the moment its pain killers and exercise for me
hi sweetheart
help me out what is (dcis and onc)please not used to terminology yet.
i do not have to go for rads only cemo,i hope my man tells me 6 weeks then i might be able to go to tenerife(heres hoping) now come on now think of balerina pose but you have not got to get that tutu out you can do it girl come on think positive.
keep in touch
take care
glynis
dcis is ductal carcinoma in situ and onc is oncologist, yes the ballerina pose is quite funny, but somehow I cant see me in a tutu although it would be good for a laugh. I hope that you will be able to go to tenerife I will keep everything crossed for you.
hi girls
had my plaster taken off today so i can see the scar properly now not as bad as i thought.it is a bit puckered but that is normal ,not had any solution put in today as my surgeon wants to leave another week.i have been looking for residential homes for my dad this week,another 2 to go next week then it 's make our mind up,where we are going to put him.once that is done i can focus on myself and my treatment.you have these things to do don’t you they brought you up so it’s only fair you look after when they get old.
hi girls i am back
good news i can go on holiday yipee!!! so here i come to teneriffe 23.11.07
for a week and boy am i looking forward to this.
i start my cemo on the 4.12.07 and can have it done at bolton instead or christies.
so lets get the holiday sorted and then i can get on with the matter to hand.
i have also got my dad sorted out with a residential home so that is starting to unfold on that side ,looks like things might be on the up(not before long).
anybody got any idea’s on where the best place to get a wig from in the north westi also had some fluid put in my expansion today so the blow up is in place as well.
Great news, enjoy your holiday, you deserve it. I have not got chemo yipee, but have to have rads, go for my planning on 29th so I let you know how I get on.
I had my chemo at Bolton and they are all lovely. You will get 3 different chemo nurses (who come from Christies) who do 3 weeks each, Steph, Vicky and Sarah. You can have a good laugh with them and Sharon (who does the bloods on Tuesdays) is fab. There is a lovely lady called Sylvia who is WRVS and makes cups of tea. We called her Mrs Doyle (from Father Ted) because you can’t get through the door without her asking if you want a cup of tea lol. I got my wig from Salon Maier (I think that’s how you spell it) in Manchester and it’s fab. They will give you a form at Bolton and you just take it to the salon when you choose your wig. Don’t go to Dimples in Bolton, I made that mistake once and nearly got talked into a wig that would have made me look like Vera Duckworth!
If you’re having rads, you’ll have to go to Christies, which is a pain going every day (I finished 3 weeks ago). They don’t have the equipment at Bolton unfortunately.
Good luck with it, you’ll be fine. Anything you want to know, just yell.
hi jez and sweetheart
i do not have to go for rads no need
the bc nurses just told me to go and pick a wig and then tell them to bill bolton
but i go back on the 6.11.07 for my blow up session so i will ask again what i do,but thank you for your reply.my bloods are being done from home the day before beacuse i live 1/5 an hour down that m61 and m62.
now i am really looking forward to teneriffe.
i even got my swim falsie just in case my little scab falls off if it doesn’t i will go play paddling like a little girl…
been to my dad’s flat today to sort out the good from the bad i got 6 bin bags of clother,bedding,blankets god knows how long he and my mum(bless her)have been hording this stuff,and she has been dead 13 years.
all we need to do now is get rid of it before we empty the big stuff out and hand the keys in.
you know what i think i can see a light at the end of that blasted tunnel i have been traveling through.
i saw one of the girls i was in hospital with we both had our ops on the same day but she said she was struggling to to the balerina pose can not get her arm up above her head.not recommended she needs to sort that out pretty quick but i was not her dominant arm that she had her mas on she is right handed so me thinks it is because of that ,she is playing lazy do you agree???
going away this weekend to scarborough for a break love this ,
getting the hang of sleeping on the other side of the bed in the motorhome now
let’s put it this way you got to keep going eh!!!
love
glynis
x x x x x x
p.s. dont’ forget to wear pink tomorrow it’s breast awarness day 26.10.07
Yipee I can do that blasted ballerina pose, well almost can’t get the arm straight but can get it above my head, shall be wearing pink tomorrow, especially as my duaghters firm has gone all out for think pink month, due to the fact that I was diagnosed with bc. Bless them I don’t know how much they have raised but I will let everyone know when she has the total.