everyone asking me when i’m going back to work!!! Why don’t they just mind their own ******* business
People stroking my head!
I’m not a cat but I will grow some claws soon!
MieeeeeeeeeOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!
Saucer of cream for table 2
Poeple thinking I should look awful. I’ve not had chemo, I’ve had surgery and rads, and look and feel exactly the same as I did before. Just had OH’s two golf chums visit, and they seem shocked that I look OK, maybe shocked’s not the right word, but surprised that I’m not bald or something. Just a moan, on an otherwise pretty good day.
LOL troymaiden that would get on my nerves too, im fed up with people trying to plan ALL that I am going to be doing once my rads have ended & better still telling me how I will be feeling HUH ? NO they have not had BC so how the &*^ do they know how I will be feeling grrrrrrrrr I think I may just become difficult & do the total opposite to whats being said even if they are right LOL … should be fun
there was me thinking I could start being more in control of my own life instead of being everyone elses goffa & general dogs body It is going to be my turn to live now FOR ME :))
Mekala x
Being taken for granted by my family, they think because i’ve had 2 ops and rads a few months ago all is well - it is far from well, my head is spinning from it all, my boob hurts, I can’t stay awake after work, I get grumpy/depressed, not that they’ve noticed!
Then people say I “look so well” (make up is a wonderful thing), “you are so lucky” (I don’t feel lucky, have had some of my boob taken away and still don’t know whether they’ve got it all!), etc., etc., and as for work, don’t get me started, they still expect you to turn up and be the same as before when you really feel like telling everyone to get over themselves and stop moaning! Does this sound familiar or am I cracking up?! I keep busy but feel like it’s all an act for everyone else. Even the GP couldn’t arrange the Counselling promised in January, just as well I wasn’t suicidal isn’t it!
On the positive side got appointment on Wednesday when, hopefully, will find out some answers, trying to be positive but it is very difficult when all you want to scream out is “why me”!
Keep posting girls, keeping us sane, this website forum is a life-saver xxx
curlylol
totally!you are not going bonkers.xx
Thanks Kika, so glad i’m not but I do wonder sometimes!
Lol xxx
Curlylol
Nope you’re very entitled to your feelings. I may be coming out the other end (hopefully) but remember getting really p’d off when family got a little bit too blase with the whole thing. Sometimes I was happy for me to be Ok, but then I really did have my moments, when I wanted to shout - I HAVE CANCER FOR FXS SAKE! I thought it was quite nice when sister said that sometimes they forget I’ve got cancer, but shxt, not when it was uppermost in my mind!!
Sheil
Me too, don’t say much at home but one person (daughter’s boyfriend) said I was “milking it” so haven’t said anything at home since and all I was saying was how tired I was after 6 months of ops and rads!
p.s. he is a man, suppose he can’t help it, but I did give him a piece of my mind and went off to bed!
Curlylol xxx
Curly: “Even the GP couldn’t arrange the Counselling promised in January”
You can get counselling through Macmillan and there would only be about a couple of week’s wait. HTH.
Hi yep I can totally relate to all of that everyone, I actually feel like I am repeating the same thing for about the 100th time when people ask me how I am, then you have the ones who ask trillions of questions, thats ok on a day when you want to talk about it,
omg I sound such a bitch, but you all know what I mean, I carnt take pity at all, strangely enough I havent been able to all the way through, but a bit of understanding would be good,
but then I ask myself how can they understand unless they have been there themselves,
one thing it has taught me after having had it twice in 11 years and still only 45 years old, DONT TAKE ANYTHING FOR GRANTED lol, live for today and enjoy it.
all the very best to my fellow comrades Liz xxxx
Hot flushes.
They started the night after my first dose of Taxotere back in March and now that I’ve been on Tamoxifen for five weeks they’ve increased to more than one an hour, day and night. I’m not sweating thank goodness, just overheating, but having my sleep disrupted seven or eight times a night is not good.
Pah.
Jane xxx
Oh poor you, Jane, I had the same problem going through menoopause, and it’s HORRIBLE. Let’s hope it settles down soon, as promised. (Soon for someone not going through it and for someone who is going through it being entirely different things.)
Cheryl
Being mistaken for a bloke. Again.
Happened today for the third time. Yes I know my hair is a little on the minimalist side, but I was wearing a necklace and big dangly earrings and I’m STILL a 32G…
Jane xxx
Did you recommend a good optician?
Actually, I felt sorry for her - she was sooo embarrassed!
Jane xxx
being told everyday that Im looking well!!!what do you expect? me looking like dying!!
STMBTO my garden. Can someone please come and lay concrete over the whole thing? I really don’t like gardening and have put off getting out there all summer, so it’s a total jungle and I’m completely exhausted. Oh well, we’ll all get the benefit of it at the end of July.
CM -from one “jungle keeper” to another -I know EXACTLY how you feel.
I have friends from NZ visiting in August so will have to do something. Not sure about concrete though- was thinking more along the lines of the gardener who advertises in the local paper and s*d the expense. Beans and mince for a couple of months!
I’m with you manco, how I’m I supposed to look! maybe I’ll start going out looking a wreck, make everyone else feel better.