You know when someone one has there first child and life becomes all encompassed around that child. It’s all that,s ever thought or spoken about. Well that’s me only this time it’s bc, in fact i was thinking that perhaps for the first time in my life i would have a good speciallity subject on mastermind. I.d probably win too!
Jane, i,ve never baked in my life but after reading your last post i may just give it a try today - give me something else to think about. Good look with tax today.
Sarah , hope everything goes well with your little boys op today.
Sarah, good luck tomorrow and sending lots of hugs to your little boy - I hope the lemonade is under lock and key today!
The lemon thing smells lovely and has cooked to perfection - I have to let it cool in the tin so will have some when we get home from chemo, as a last treat before my newly found tastebuds hit the deck again. The biscuits I made yesterday with Daim bars in are lovely and the recipe made loads - rather necessary when the two teenage lummoxes arrive home tomorrow night. I also have a recipe for some with copped up Toblerone in which are so moreish it’s untue. I need to make those again…
Can’t wait for my sister to arrive tomorrow morning and daughter home from uni on Friday - I currently live with my husband, son and foster son - far too much testosterone. Even the dog is an unneutered male. I definitely need some girlies around for a while!
Sarah, good luck to your little boy today and you tomorrow, I hope everything runs smoothly.
Jane - I am coming round - where do you live? All that food sounds delicious!
Morning all… Again… I made it back to bed and asleep again by 7. Poor children, at least they are independent little chaps and happy to get up and do their own thing. We have JUST had breakfast, god I’m fed up of all this crap. I’m still full of snotty stuff, antibiotics making me so tired again, just as I got over FEC 4… Oh god I’m sorry for moaning so much. Where’s that wet fish to slap me round the face with. When I was watching the news at some ungodly hour this morning, there was a report on climate change in Australia, and they were interviewing a fireman who lived with his family in one of the towns flooded earlier on in the year. He was talking about the wall of water that was moving towards his house and how he was certain he had time for them all to get out in his fire truck. But he ended up throwing his6 yr old son out of the window into a tree where he clung on by himself for 7 hrs… Sadly his wife and 2 other children were washed away in the truck. It was so sad, but he was determined to stay and rebuild his life. I stopped feeling quite so sorry for myself for a few hours anyway.
Managed to totally upset absent OH last night talking about the ‘new car’… Was starting to feel quite resentful as it was quickly turning into, not what Sarah wants but what he wants. Doesn’t like convertibles, doesn’t like Mercedes, has to be this has to be that… Hang on I thought… This is my new toy!!! So I told him, hmmm didn’t go down well… Wait till I tell him I’m planning a holiday… For one person…
One thing about cancer, it makes you so less tolerant doesn’t it, a total I couldn’t give a monkeys what you think attitude.
Sarah. Hope your little boys op goes well and he’s right as rain in no time.
Wandy, clear margins results today?? Fingers and toes crossed for you xx
Alto, those lemon slice things, which magazine were they in? I have a recent edition of sainsburys mag which had a baking supplement in with delicious looking lemon slices in which I thought I’d try. When I’ve got some energy and my ever waning appetite back.
sCACO, I’m with you on the whole, ‘but you’ve ONLY got 2 more to go’ thing… I swear if one more person says it to me…gggrrrrrrrr
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OMG, I forgot to say,or did I say in an earlier post I dont remember…
Guess who is coming to stay?! Go on…
Only my frikkin Russian mother in law!
When?
Only next frikkin Wednesday…
How long for?
Only 3 frikkin long weeks…
OMG…
HEEELLLPPPPPPPPPP
Oh dear SarahB I would take to my bed and refuse to move for 3 weeks! I don’t think my MIL and I ever managed to tolerate more than 3 days under the same roof without a massive tantrum (her, not me!), so I obviously never managed to crack the problem of how to please her! I would stick to your guns for the car - you have to have the car that you actually really want.
I want one of those badges!!
Sarah - hope all goes well for your little lad. Hope all goes well for those getting poisened/results today xxhugs to allxx
Alto, just setting my SatNav for Bedford, then will follow the lovely smell…about 1.5 hours east of here for me I think!
Alto, you’re in charge of the bakery tent today, obviously. Can’t you just put us out of our miseries and add the recipe to a post? Just the basics - quantities, temp, time, I’m sure we’ll figure out the rest. And if we don’t, there will at least be some nice lemony-smelling disasters around the woods.
Temp down to 37.1 today, I reckon this cold is beginning to figure out that a FEC-infested body isn’t a very hospitable environment.
Assorted Sarahs seem to be having a bit of a hard time of things at the moment, so hugs to all 15 million of you (well it seems that way sometimes) and hugs to all the non-Sarahs too, in case you feel left out.
I think the clearing’s looking quite nice, what with the bluebells under the trees at the edge, but we do need to do something with the bottles littering up the place again. Was there a party at the JM yesterday that I missed? I went to bed early instead, hugging my Lemsip gratefully.
SB - what the F—! How?? One of my mantras is ‘It could always be worse’ but really i think youve trumped it. Lets see: Mother of 2 in relationship trauma, possibly leading to separation, whilst suffering BC. That is hardly great but now MIL. OMG!!! Thats bad. Sorry. Know i should be making reassuring noises but …OMG!!!
Are you on your own with her or is OH home?
Could you cevelop an SE that involves staying in bed and not talking for 3 weeks.
3 weeks!!! Blimey you dont short change.
Sorry, totally unhelpful. Ill start again: that will be nice for you youll have another pair of hands to help out and a bit of company… (finding this hard as youve planted an image in my head of orange-haired, fur cllad larger lady who disapproves of everything except her son. as you can see i never stereotype people and never let my imagination take over). im sure she’ll be lovely and offer to take kids to school, get their tea and everything. please forgive my inappropriate response but your tone in the last post made me laugh. sorry. ill go back to my tent now.
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Jane and Joc, happy, SE- free chemo day to you both, and for you too Sarah, for tomorrow.
Peachez, that sums up how I feel T the moment too!
Right am off to get an attachment for the flamethrower to dispense Vicks Vapo rub, Lemsip and anything else that might kill a few germs. I now have another ghastly lot of germs, tagging neatly onto the last lot. Yuck. Isn’t there a limit to how much snot one person can produce in a month??
Had another dismal lot of rads yesterday, dispensed by a young man with a shaved head, and no bedside manner. His expression seemed to imply, ‘it’s not easy for me too you know, I have to look at it!’ Horrid. I lay there, lopsided and trying not to cry (again). How did I manage to get through chemo without all this fuss? What is the matter with me? Arrrrgh!
Tracey
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You see the problem is I am quite obviously just too nice… No really, a saint of mother teresa proportions, hang on wasn’t she small and quite frail looking?
OH happened to mention about a mnth ago that his mother hadn’t been to stay for a while, yeah not nearly long enough I’m thinking, and could she come over for a while? I think I grunted a response, something along the lines of, well if she really has to… Next thing I know he’s on the iPad looking at flights, seems the 20th of April is a Particularly cheap day to travel on. Then he’s booked her a flight!!! I mean I understand he wants to see his mum an all, but right in the middle of my chemo!!!
And yes SCACO your image is about spot on… I will leave you with one particular incident that springs to mind when my eldest was a baby. I had him up, fed, changed, dressed and ready for a walk in the park, I went to get dressed myself, came downstairs and found she had redressed him, as the clothes I had put him in were unsuitable. And being Russian she never ever wastes anything, the teabag will be reused 4 times, there will be little plates of food covered in kitchen roll lining the worktops ready to be eaten again when she gets peckish…
Worst of all, she doesn’t drive so no taking the kids to school…
Off to bury head in large bucket of sand again…
SB, feel free to shout and scream obscenities, dish out the odd slap etc. After all, you are an INSPIRATION, and then there are the unpredictable SE’s…
SB, Any chance of some contagious SE which is dangerous to mother-in-laws. Maybe something which the kids have already had or are vaccinated against (chickenpox, measles etc). To be left home alone with MIL is just out of order particularly under the circumstances.
Jane, recipes please?! Tongue hanging out and kids want to do some baking so maybe todays the day…
Sarahbeara, just looked at the thread and thought I would jump in, are you talking about yours or my mil, everything is snap but the Russian bit. I can’t do 3 hours let alone 3 days/weeks. You have my deepest sympathies, and when you are done please please tell the secret to surviving it.
Good luck medal in post, on the upside can you tell her you have to go to hospital for few days and book yourself a nice b&b or hotel somewhere. Xx
Do you think we can find a suit of armour somewhere in the woods? I reckon SB is going to need it. And while we’re at it, a Scold’s Bridle would be such a handy thing too, that she can slip onto unsuspecting MiL’s head while she’s sleeping, and then because of chemo brain conveniently forget where she’s put the key… (In the absence of a Scold’s Bridle, a roll of duct tape might do the trick, but you’d have to strap up her hands too, or maybe fit one of those collars they put on dogs to stop them scratching their stitches when they’ve had an op?)
Perhaps we need a blacksmith’s forge set up somewhere, though of course we’d need a convenient blacksmith to work it. Any suggestions for who we should have? Perhaps we can get NE to help with the bellows and heating up the forge. I reckon he’d be really useful as he comes out with a whole lot of hot air at least we could put that to some use. Jason Statham has my vote for chief blacksmith. Any other suggestions?
I have a very large dog cage, the bottom is carpeted for some comfort that is MIL sized that I don’t mind loaning,
if it will help. I even have a padlock for it to so no escaping. As to head blacksmith that requires thought, when it comes to muscle and brawn I need to take my time daydreaming.
And last thought is chemo brain a legal condition in a court of law? Cos your honor I didn’t realise I had just done …is there a legal tent on this campsite or the phone number to judge John Deed.If I wait with baited breathe for a reply.
Everybody, thank you for ALL your support and good wishes for today, finally,… finally… after 3 attempts I HAVE CLEAR MARGINS!!! MG Thankyou for trapping that Fairy and keeping her in your tent until I needed her today!!
I am soooooo thrilled, wept at the news. Can’t believe that after nearly 4 months since diagnosis I am able to be referred to the onc. Meeting with him in 2-3 weeks. Was just going to be rads but now since they have had to take so much more tumour than first expected will possibly be having chemo as well, but will cross that bridge when I come to it. For the moment am delighted to be finished with surgery.
All drinks on me in the JM tonite!!
SB am horrified for you re MIL! I used to have a german one many years ago and it is pretty scary when you get that whole teutonic/eastern euro thing going on! I would seriously throw a real sickie, conjure up every se you can think of and display them all at once! Maybe the 3 weeks might reduce drastically…
Choccie, a forge would be good, I vote for Daniel Craig, hot, sweaty and doing a bit of bending metal, yuuuummmmy!!
Anyway, think I might go for a lie down, am exhausted with the tension and now the relief of waiting for today’s results.
Thank you all again who sent supportive words, this site is soooo wonderful and I really appreciate the friendships developed on this thread.
