Got to get the knitting needles out for my own merkin today. I had been vaguely wondering which areas of foliage would be first to run away and I found out this morning. How very weird…
And how even weirder to be telling people! :-0
Thanks, Scaco, it was a lot better last night. The weird thing is that I fall asleep better if half-sitting. Whether this is BP or just from my tree pollen hay fever and resulting congestion or something else, I don’t know. I’ve got a stack of 3 pillows.
Hope everyone getting Fecced or Taxed gets off lightly. (Just typed tazed instead of taxed–a freudian slip?)
It looks a bit brighter here, so maybe another going commando day.
Cheryl
Oh Buer! Who’s got the wbc fairy???
After 7 days of stabbings my wbc is STILL too low & needs checking AGAIN (more stabbings) before clearance to have FEC3 can be given… ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGh!
Also been told will have to have jabs again (whimper) & to start taking Brufen & Paracetamol regularly two days before jabs start 'cos of side effects!
Sod it… where’s the beef crisps gone I’m going in?
Not a great day so far, here’s hoping Sarah got the go ahead & everyone else’s day is better.
At least the sun is shinning - yippee for that, as drizzle was predicted here. Scaco has found her way out the fog & Cm has lost her LG into it by the sounds of things!
XXHXX
Hi every one
Sarah you can have my Se fairy, 4 days post fec 4 and It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life for me and i,m feeling gooood! Sorry not on vocals but thought i’d give them a bit of a stretch anyway.
Not much good at knitting, one good nipple twizzler going spare in exchange for sparkly merkin (preferably with flashing lights), i do like to be noticed!
Troymaiden i hope your day gets better,
Maria x
Sorry Helen,
What a pain for you 
CM, come to think about it, I did just see what I took to one of the larger eyebrows scuttling off into the undergrowth. Maybe it was a LG. If they interbreed we could end up with all kinds of critters running around camp… and given the red and white ones running around yesterday, all kinds of colours too! Hope you head hair and eyebrows remain firmly glued on. If something has to go and all that…
Glad to hear the fog has lifted SCACO and that Cheryl had a better night. I am mixing together working, posting on here, e mails and checking my online auction items for any questions. I am shattered already… but at least it is a sunny day so my washing should dry x
Hello everyone,
Gorgeous day here in la belle france, altho v windy so probably be a problem for all flyaway bits, merkins, eybrows etc!!Sorry you’ve got to start knitting yours CM!
Am up for band practice tonite. Well done CM for detailing the band. I have built a double sized soundproof yurt with loads of kit that Peachez left on the Limbo Swamp raft, far enuff away from the JM so as not disturb those who are not up for rehearsal but close enuff for band members to get back to it!
Scaco you sound soooo much better today.
So sorry Troymaiden that you are having wbc issues and need more stabbings, make sure you have no sharps of your own on you incase you feel like stabbing something yourself!!
Wandyx
MG, my personal foliage has NEVER looked like an eyebrow, what on EARTH do you have on your face?!
Thank you folks, I’ve given myself a swift kick up the are & a talking to!
It’s just now knowing what to expect from the lovely lenograstimse gremlins and really not wanting them to come visiting again, let alone another 7x4 times and being told they could get worse!
Am now looking forward to band practise tonite and a jar in the JM after. Maybe I need to try Guinness or does that only work for red blood cells?
At least the eyelashes are hanging on in there this end!
XX H XX
Oh, I meant to mention. I put in an order for annabandana stuff on Thursday, and my son dumped a parcel in my lap that had arrived “a couple of days ago”, so Saturday morning I imagine. VERY impressed at the speed of delivery, and the bits and pieces I’ve ordered are very good value.
Now to get myself a cap to stick on top of the bandanna thingies and I’ll be sorted. Think I’ll go for denim rather than camo, I’m not one to fade into the background…
Helen, so p*ssed off on your behalf at your wbc - will give them a stern talking to if I spot them, and send them whimpering back home to you again. When do you have to go back for re-stabbing? xx
Hi CM,
At the risk of sounding hairist I did have to give my eyebrows “a good plucking” this morning as they were certainly Dennis Healyesque (and you may have had a neat little Brazilian for all we know!!)It may be TMI but with everything that has been going on, eyebrow threading has been the least of my concerns.
I was going to use the work enormous but I didn’t want to go to the opposite extreme and imply that you were very hirsute 
!! There are various parts of my body hair that I would most certainly sacrifice quite willingly… although no doubt these would not be the parts to go and I would be left bald but with chin bristles and leg hair firmly hanging on! x
Afternoon,
Sarah has been given the go ahead for fec 3 but is unhappy so is off to sulk/shout/let off steam in appropriate yurt having been asked by nurse if i was eating too much as i have gained weight, followed by you do know weight gain can cause re occurrance what a lovely sensitive lady, so i went straight to pub for lunch followed by a large cake & am now off to console myself
xxxxx
Cheeky moo! Without wishing anything on anyone there is sometimes a real lack of empathy for what it is like to go through treatments.
At one point I was pointing out how post surgery I couldn’t do many of the types of exercise which make me feel better (like swimming and running) for a few weeks - BCN was advising me to do what I would usually do to make myself better whilst waiting for results - and she said “Well you can still walk you know…” in a really patronising way, as though I never stir myself from the horizontal. You wonder if the connection between steroids and weight gain has passed them by…
… and in any case, this is now and getting yourself through as best you can. Stuff diets… all of the healthy living can wait until we are through the woods. Besides which I did all of that and still got bc. Will join you for the cakes… xx
021210,
WTF!!!I am staggered!!! how do these sort of people get to keep jobs where they are supposed to be sensitive…Someone else who must have had the day off when that training was going on!!..Your reaction would have been mine, don’t you dare feel bad about it!!
Wandyx
What an appalling woman! (I assume not a male nurse?) Most of us are told not to worry about gaining weight, they only worry if we lose it.
I got 2 years’ tax rebate today–let’s have a super cream tea, my treat.
Hello Ladies
Hope we are all feeling ok,
I had the, yournotsosmartnow fairy attack me yesterday and she gave me the biggest baddest headache ever, the cowbag, slobbed on sofa then went to bed, omg thought my head was going to burst open, im TRYING to start my heathly eating plan today as the muffin top has apperead again, so ill give it a go,
How many people are going to tell me im half way there now and you have done soooo well, i want to kick em, but i wont,
I seem to be moaning again. and i dont want to,
take care all
Love ang hugs
Donna
xx
cheryl… cream tea yum yum, can i have 2 please? xx
Sarah, Wandys been busy making a sound proof Yurt - go and have a scream, there’s lots of cushions in there for you to beat up too…Troy might be in there already by the sound of things
Donna, I’ve had poison number 4 - I’ll sit on 'em, you kick 'em!
there’s a healthy food wagon out in the woods getting it’s wheels back on somewhere, but all totally voluntary. It’s got Green and Blacks on it as well as Terry’s chocolate coated ginger plus pickled onions and gerkins, nearly anything from Wagamamas too.
I have a very strange emotional realationship with food, the bcn said last week ‘oh, you’ve lost weight’… which prompted a week long eating frenzy :-/ and I have eaten out loads during chemo as just can’t be bu**ered to cook so get out to that pub Sarah !!
Donna, you get to choose the cake.
This isn’t fun and half way done is also half to go. So you don’t have to be positive and optimistic until you feel like it. It’s bad enough having to put up with all this without people expecting you to be bright and sparky all the time.
Cheryl
Howdy all, hope you all have your leg warmers and Lycra outfits ready for a warm up in the JM tonight… Ia m ruthless, be warned and shall have you sweating in your pints by the end of the evening… Only joking… I’m thinking a nice gentle warm up using the arms only, practicing the glass to gob manouveure. That should do it.
Had my pre fec 4 check up today, onc is happy for me to stay off the steroids, but he said be warned, once you start throwing up its harder to stop it… Shall take my chances with that one. I said it’s bad enough you’ve made me bald and wonky, now you want to make me fat as well! You’ll all be pleased to hear that he has also prescribed me some extra strong laxatives to take alongside the sachets, shall obviouslykeep you informed on progress in that area come saturday morning.
House is quiet with only one small boy to keep me company, think I’ll get him to bed early and make way over to the JM and warm up the jukebox… Xxx