Yay Ninja!!!
I’m doing my usual ohhecktwodaystogobeforetax panic. Just ignore me.
Heading for the JM for a large one.
Yeeehaaa Ninja!
Watch your head when you come out the tunnel our end, we had to dig fast and there’s a few low-lying branches waiting to capture wigs. Some of the tree piskies have been pinching wigs to line their nests.
I was helping out at the Guide Coffee Morning today at church and brought some nice home baked goodies for the patisserie tent (I made sure the Guides took all the calories out for us)
Hoping everyone is feeling well and SE’s are small.
(((HUGS)))
June
superglue used instead of stitches for head wounds. Having two boys, now grown, I’ve had plenty of experience of this one. Sometimes it’s purple.
Have you ever been found naked on the bathroom floor and covered in blood. I have. Don’t panic, this was about a year ago. Fell out of the shower, landed on my head on tiled floor. Gave OH a bit of a shock. Lots of blood. I showered as much off as I could, crying, shrieking and doing impression of Janet Leigh in Pshcho, refused offers of hospital, wrapped my head in a towel and went to bed.
Didn’t want the purple glue.
Your brain is functioning wonderfully sky2sea - scalp cuts are often joined up with medical grade superglue these days to avoid stitching where the skin is thin and would have to be stretched together. Clean the wound, slap on the iodine (son gritting his teeth and clenching his toes), squeeze in the superglue and hold the edges of the wound together, et voila - one head wound sealed in seconds without stitches.
I think there’s someone on these forums who lives in France and had her MX done there and they used superglue to close up the wound rather than steristrips. Can’t remember who it was but I’m sure I read it.
I hope Ninja isn’t stuck in all this superglue!
Jane xxx
Alto: ouchie! Anything about teeth makes me s.q.u.i.r.m.
Here I am at home, all happy and snuggled under my fleecy blankie. And on a proper keyboard, not a telephone!
Thanks for all the wishes, digging, fairies, custard-faced dummies and distracting effluence. Well, maybe a bit less of the latter would have been better as I made my way along a confined space 
I have permission to watch my girl do her first RfL of this season tomorrow. Just have to take great care with my mouth as the membrane is still broken and can let infection in. And I’ve been told that if I get the merest sniff of a raised temperature, to head straight for Stalagluft 2, even if it’s 3 am. “It will be very, very serious if you don’t”.
Gulp.
I saluted Colonel Blimp, sorry, Jackson, and folded my uniform (well, pyjamas) and ran for it.
Hey, my daughter had her laparoscopy incisions sealed using cyanoacrylate (I checked her notes before they vanished).
It really isn’t the same thing as the stuff you buy in B&Q, BTW!
Sellotape!!! In a past life I was a cr@p hairdresser and used miles of the stuff on my fingers - ears of clients proved too bendy to stick it on, s’pose they may have ended up with purple glue.
Should we have wood glue in our camp first aid kit dya think? My head is definitely woody rather than super
Sap. That’s the answer. My brain is definitely sapped so job done.
my veins are woody. Glue will be very handy for NE and his woody little head. Glue him to a tree and use him for pointy stick practice?
My WLE and SNB were glued. They said there were stitches inside but nothing visible on the surface at all. Must say it has left a nice neat line! xx
We could have a sports day
pointy stick prodding
gremlin garroting
flame thrower accuracy
sticky bottomed cake eating
ooh the permutations are endless …and so too are the numbers of ways we could utilise PB, NE and SW’s ‘skills’.
Don’t forget Cat Herding
and Tug of War,
(some of us have had lots of practice pulling others out of various swamps)
and a coconut shy, where the only one that just won’t fall off is really NEs head…
Can we have a fortune teller too - one called Gypsy Rose Onc ?
Ninja - sounds like you might need to gargle with Superglue!
I tore a toenail off this morning just putting my jeans on, caught it on the hem. 6 weeks past last Tax and it’s still playing havoc! Was an ouch to start with, but it’s not sore now.
Welcome back Ninja.
[Sigh] Now that my hair is growing back, my nails are snapping off. Well I made it through a concert despite the tail end of a cold, fuzzy head proudly on display. Afterwards an older woman (ok, older than I am) came up and asked me if I minded saying whether I was having chemo and that she wanted me to know that she was 3 years past her treatment, just to encourage me. She was very sweet about it, and we chatted a bit about SEs.
Another sport ought to be the Waiting marathon.
Cheryl
Another sport - the aquathon - seeing who can slap on a full pot of aqueous cream in the shortest time.
Jane xxx
I just wrote a whole screed and it’s disappeared !!!
Jane — My conservatory is full of 17yr olds- grandaughter’s birthday and I couldn’t say no - they’re staying the night and getting noisy so I’m going to bed!
Ninja-- glad you’ve escaped . I had one admission after 2nd chemo and no recurrence. Mind you they started me on 7 daily injections after each treatment.
Cheryl - my short sprouting hair is a bit fuzzy as well .I don’t wear my wig at home usually but didn’t want to freak out Linsey’s friends.She did ask me nicely to take my wig upstairs as it looked like a dead rodent on the coffee table- she knew I would laugh.
Anyway off to bed to sleep - perchance to dream - holiday seems a bit closer now.
Nite nite
Margaret x x x
Morning Woodies
WELCOME BACK Ninja! Great escape planning ladies, I’m sure NE will survive the squidgy custard creams, they do make an excellent face pack for him!
Margaret - hope you survive the 17year-olds, I had 10 in my flat from Fri to Sat night and it was quite funny when I went in lounge on Sat morning to see 'em all lying in a row. One rolled over and started chain-reaction. The only thing is the kitchen looks like a plague of locusts hit it! Hey ho Sainsburys here I come again!
Had superglue for laparoscopy (interesting spelling offered for that one)but nowt else.
Am having v lazy day recovering from aforementioned teenage invasion followed by wedding (not mine).Even got chatted up with beautiful bald inspirational head!! Got a date to visit a brewery so maybe checking out supplies for the JM!
Speaking of which I need to visit patisserie yurt for some brekkie!
See you all laters
XXHelenXX
I’ve got the music from “The Great Escape” film playing in my head. Well done Ninja!
As for sports day, I’m not sure it’s the weather for it today where I am, but I can do the aquathon quite well. Half way down the pot of aqueous cream and making a mess all over the house.
Cheryl and Peachez sorry to hear about the nails. I’m minus 3 and 3 hanging on a thread.
Margaret you made me laugh! My dead rodent is also on coffee table! It has been comfortable there for a couple of days now. I was thinking I might just dust around it.
Troy’s got a date in a brewery? Go girl! Has he got more hair than you?
I’m in rads recovery now. The nurse said I might feel a bit lost and emotional now my support from the hospital won’t be there. I told her I was fine and had lots of support when I needed it.(Thanks to fellow woodies) I’ll just come and howl in the woods if it becomes a problem.
See you all later in JM x
Well done, Janipi. Is that the lot for you, or are you on tablets?
I’m just relieved that no one has said I am ‘brave’ for showing my fuzzy head. Yet. Has anyone else noticed that the rain seems a lot colder with less hair to slow it down?
Cheryl
Tamoxifen towers for 5 years. One packet down and SE’s not apparent yet.