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Not me scaco - my husband! Oh, not forgetting my daughter as well - flute, sax, clarinet, violin & viola and available for hire for swing bands or stage musicals in the Preston area during uni terms, or Beds/Bucks/Herts outside term time!!! Excellent singer as well - another alto, but with an astonishingly powerful belt when she lets rip.
I only play drums and bodhran really and a little bit of flute so if anyone needs a ceilidh band drummer they can hire me as well Not sure how it’ll work with only 1 1/2 arms… can I use my teeth?
Just be careful with my drums on that raft as I don’t think they’d take too kindly to a dunking and I don’t entirely trust MG after all that alcohol and nipple twirling.
We can tie bells onto the caterpillars and train them to wiggle in time for an extra special effect. Wouldn’t that sound pretty?
Sorry to hear you’re feeling crap scaco, I have fec 4 on Friday, fec 3 has been good to me amazingly I have felt human for a whole week, am hoping I havent been lulled into a false sense of security. Did you have yukky jabs again? xxx
yes to the jabs - think i’m the only person on chemo who actually WANTS her WBC to drop so that the balance is normal. Body is quite clearly producing a fair amount on its own so extra ones have no room to move and i’m quite sore.
FEC3 was fine, think i was lulled. Don’t know what to do to make it shift, very frustrating and BORING! It’s not terrible but7 days later it’s starting to get to me!
Sounds horrible scaco. I’m going to have Neulasta again for my three Tax cycles and that’s painful as well.
I’m afraid you’ll just have to give it longer. I definitely felt worse on FEC3 and my SEs have lasted longer - my mouth still isn’t normal and I’ve got Tax 1 on Wednesday so I think they just build up. Are you taking ibuprofen and codeine? My onc has told me to stock up with those for the Tax aches but I’ve been warned off paracetamol due it reducing temperature and so masking infection.
I also find that a heat pack laid lengthways down my lap helps a lot with the leg aches - the only problem is having to keep getting up to heat it up again - might do a google for the plug in variety and see what they cost!
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You sound a bit blue and fed up. Am not in your place cos I’m still in the cutting room, that in itself has its own trials and tribulations…but am sorry you’re having a tuff time at the mo. Keep your chin up and it sounds like you won’t have the energy for band interviews. I would just snuggle down on a lovely soft duvet in the corner of the JM and wait for your friends to buy the beers!!
Sorry to hear the SEs ar lingering SCACO. They must surely be about to scoot off if you’re 7 days post FEC4. Fingers crossed.
I’ve been practising twirling my pasties all day but all I have achieved so far is a pile of crumbs and mushy cornish filling which the eyebrows scurried across and carted off to their burrows. Maybe I just need to keep trying. I’ll admit to eating a few and taking a nibble of an edible merkin (just for scientific purposes of course and it was extremely dry and chewy).
Alto I haven’t even begun to get going later. After a blitz of spring cleaning (I keep thinking I had better do everything pre rads) my right arm is throbbing so no drumming for me or paddling rafts. I am also an Alto (do we have any sopranos at all?) and I’m meant to be singing Poulenc’s Gloria (and Faure) at a concert in a week’s time and seem to have missed most every rehearsal of the Poulenc (which is fully of twiddly bits). If anyone fancies singing it through with me in the JM tonight, I will be the one plink plonking my way through it on the old upright in the corner of the pub… xx
The new thing for me is aching joints, but of course I don’t really know whether that’s an SE or just the effect of not being able to get my normal exercise. Not all the time fortunately. The ‘yuck’ feeling of last week is easing up, but the BP still seems to be low and even if my RBC hasn’t fallen further, I still get breathless easily and my heart beat goes up for every little thing.
Me, me! I’m a soprano, or at least a mezzo. I’m hoping to be fit for Fauré in Brum next Saturday. At least I already know it pretty well, and it’s not as though anyone would ask me to do the Pie Jesu.
I don’t think I know that particular Poulenc, but challenging scarcely covers it, does it? Some gorgeous music, though. I’ll hunt out the Gloria on Spotify.
Eyebrows sort of hanging on, eyelashes seem to be giving up. Heigh ho.
well, it is nearly and as it’s taken me a good 20 mins to catch up from last night it feels like it!
Oooooh! Pleeease can I join the band , don’t advise making me a backing singer but would like a go at bodrun, hurdy gurdy or Sax (yes I said SAX CM!) and can I be called Lena Grastim??
Have Onc tomo before FEC3 on Thurs and wondering where WBC has gone. Should be interesting as going to ask about my se’s from granocyte injections,I’m not looking forward to at least another seven days worth of 'em.
Scaco - I’ve lost the plot here somewhere - not difficult I know for me - I hope you’re feeling less spaced out soon - Big hugs xx
Be down the JM later, as virtual % proof is probably all I should have before bloods tomorrow - just hoping I get lovely scots lady for bloods. (Pretty please RHCH )
I think we have us a choir alongside the girl band! The Fauré is fine, like you I’ve done it a few times but lack of rehearsal of the Poulenc is feeling a bit risky at the moment. We’re not singing anywhere serious thankfully.
Both sons have been choristers (eldest retired now!)but the little one has just returned from Rome where he had an audience with the Pope and sang Evening Mass in St Peter’s Basilica (not bad for a non Catholic, its a long story…)He admits to being a little nervous as there was a massive audience and he’s only 12. Poor little thing had lost his voice entirely by the time he got back having sung his way through several concerts with a cold.
Must say the singing is a great tonic and a room full of ladies in a choir invariably contains several people who have had treatment for bc and are fine. Works better for me than any antidepressants and I always come back feeling better xx
I love singing the Faure - it’s a bit overdone but so beautiful. I haven’t sung the Poulenc but my husband has done it - he’s a lovely high tenor - he sang Marius in One Day More in our charity concert last week. He’d love to sing Jean Valjean at some point!
We’re doing the Allegri Misere on Good Friday - not bad for a little village church choir of 24, ranging in age from 8 to almost 90. We first did it a couple of years ago and we’re lucky to have a lady soprano with a lovely pure voice who can hit those top notes. My husband is the organist and choir master and he’s nothing if not adventurous!!! (or a glutton for punishment maybe…)
Three of the 17 ladies in the choir have had BC in the last few years - there are two of us currently wearing headscarves every Sunday rather than choir hats! My soprano friend has finished FEC-T and has now done two weeks of rads.
Cheryl- I’ve been beating myself up because I’m not so good this time but maybe my expectations are too high. When I mentioned breathless and feeling tired and yeuch they postponed fec 3( much to my disgust 'cos I want it all over with) and ordered all the heart checks etc. I have to say BP, ECG and chest x ray all fine and bloods all back to normal so hope will only be delayed for 1 week.
Got every kind of guitar in the house but I only play the bagpipes and sing very badly.
Gonna give myself a shake and get down to the JM tonight!
Hope everyone else doing OK,
Margaret X X X X
Oh Jane- I’d love to come hear your choir nothing muchlike that around here!
OMG girls am completely well impressed with all the singing/choir/ comments… I would love to sing but I have a dreadful voice, more strangled budgie than mezzo soprano…
MG! You must be super chuffed with your 12 yr old. My 8 yr old is off to London with his daddy tomorrow to appear as the page boy in Swan Lake at the Coliseum with ENB! A blink and you miss it role, but he’s just impressed he’s going to be earning real money and he gets a week off school!
Ooh just heard the bells toll 6 o’clock, time for a wee pre dinner drink me thinks…x
Some of these things build up, don’t they? Or collapse. Like all of us, I want to get it over with, so I can really recover. I had a heart test early but no one has said anything about another one yet. Just have to wait for the next blood test, I suppose.
I’d love to do the Allegri sometime, Jane, but it won’t be me on the top notes, that’s for sure. The chamber choir I sing with has been working on the Barber Agnus Dei off and on, so I hope I’m fit and well by the time it comes to performance.
Congrats to the lad, MG, you must be very proud, and to yours, Sarah. How exciting! What talented kids we have!
MG, Poulenc eh? you can always go for ‘all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right place’ al la Morcombe and Wise!
Cheryl, glad you got to see your daughter on TV. I am still waiting to see MGs OH on the ballet - next week? Meanwhile my YD has been making a claim to fame starring as Maria in West Side Story in the school production!
I’m Alto too, but can hardly talk at mo, let alone sing, due to sore tounge and throat thanks to Tax. I’ll set the stage and keep the drinks coming for the rest of the band …
I’ve been off my raft this afternoon (left it safely tied up for anyone who wants to avail themselves, fleecy blankets, cushions and a trug full of meds, even a small dog to pet !! (and an emergency snorkel in case anyone goes overboard))
Well he was on last week, but in the background, and there was a good shot of his lower legs at the barre. He missed a lot of the filming as he took a month off when I was dx and then my mx and recon, I needed him around for the children. Plus, although he is the most senior principal in the company and definitely the best dancer ( biased I know) , he is hardly a spring chicken, pushing 40 so they are really just showing the younger up and comings. They did film him performing the prince in Cinderella but whether they’ll show any of it I don’t know…
Peachez, Funnily enough the Morecambe and Wise, “you must be Andrew Preview <wiggles glasses=”"> all the right notes bit was just what I said to the person next to me as we tortured the Poulenc last week. I’m not having chemo and am in a strange limbo at the moment pre rads, so other than bits of surgery have kept on doing as many things as possible. </wiggles>
I am proud of the boys, they’ve both been singing since they were little and, as someone put it, it is a great free musical education. Of course my 14 year old was latterly very unimpressed at getting to togged up as a choir boy… Sarah, what a fantastic experience for your boy and don’t they love it when they earn their own money (rather than just spending ours) xx
I don’t even have another OH any more. I am beginning to think in some ways it has been easier to only focus on me and deal with my own feelings rather than have to worry about how someone else is taking each twist in the road x
Not sure how it’ll work with only 1 1/2 arms… can I use my teeth?
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