I’ve finished my first packet of arimidex, and haven’t noticed anything obvious yet, either.
Hiya All,
Janipi - yes! he’s got more hair than me on his chin, the top of his head is definitely lacking in the follicular dept but who am I to comment! Maybe I’m only after the beer, which I tried last night, and it’s very good! I was seriously pied off that I was driving as the only half I had slid down VERY well - I could have easily managed at least a couple of pints to test it properly for the JM.
Cheryl - I have discovered that rain when you have very little or no hair gets down the back of your neck blooming fast AND it’s very COLD!
Anyways good luck to all having stabbings, vampire visitations and poisonings this coming week. I’ve so far got Mon and Tues booked for hospital visits, please can I manage the rest of the week without any more appointments??
Love
XXHelenXX
Me too with the nails - 5 1/2 weeks post Tax 3 and myy hair is coming back nicely but my nails look worse each day. Don’t know yet if I’m going to lose any or if they’ll just split. They definitely look peculiar.
Think I might head back to the comfy cushions for some cossetting - I’ve got the most phlegmy cough ever and it’s really revolting. Boo.
Jane xxx
Hi Helen, man and beer, got to be winning combination!
I’m a couple of months into tamoxifen and finding it easy to forget about. More scans less easy to ignore but hoping I get better idea what’s what tomorrow.
Good luck all with appointments, poisonings etc xx
New avatar coming up, because I am VERY CROSS!!!
I have two sisters in law, both lovely ladies, both (until very recently) very far away so no point telling them as as one of them is a bit of a control freak. The other one’s just moved over to quite close, so I let her know because I hoped to see her soon, and asked her not to tell her sister.
BUT SHE BLOOMIN’ WELL WENT AND TOLD HER! So NOW I have the joy of a control freak inviting herself to stay in September, and I AM VERY, VERY CROSS!!! AARRGGHH!!! Point me at all the gremlins, I’ll get 'em for ya. Give me a box of matches, I can provide my own flamethrower.
GRRRRRRRR!!!
I have a blood test tomorrow morning ready for Wednesday poisoning so please could you send any spare neutrowotsits in the direction of my tent as mine seem to have done a runner again. I promise I’ll give them back afterwards.
I’m too tired to move far from the JM so if I catapult these neutrowhotsits over to you can you catch them in a brolly Jo C and let me have them back for my blood test on Thurs.
Choccie - that avatar is seriously scarey - more wine please
hugs all
Dawn
S2S, the cute red monkey just wasn’t cross enough, I figured this little pussy looks really fed up. And doesn’t have any hair. Except for facial whiskers. Pretty good match, really!
Ok - fairy nuff
I’m sticking with mine for now because it looks pretty dopey, fuzzy faint hair and is just hanging on
Good morrow Campers.
Sorry, Jo, I really don’t have any spare neutro jobbies. Really, I have none. Which is quite scary.
I’ve got a repeat MRI scan today so they have evidence of what’s happening with my neoadjuvant chemo. Which sounds like some kind of military space mission.
I’m not looking forward to the ‘insert cannula’ part for the injection of the contrast. Up until poisons 3, my veins were very nice. After all the illness/hospital stays of last week, my veins have had a tantrum and have disappeared. My right arm veins have vanished and I have a haematoma on my left arm where the nice doctor took a little blood so he could confirm that I don’t have any neutro jobbies. So the gods alone know how/where they’re going to insert it. I can just imagine…
“Don’t you go anywhere near my haematoma!”
“But you don’t have any visible veins on the other side”
“Look, I warned you, don’t let me get angry, you won’t like me when I’m angry”
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Welcome to the Incredible Sulk.
Thank you S2S I think I caught them but you can never be sure with neutrowotsits as they are tricky little things it seems. Ninja I will drop them by your tent after my blood test so they can help you out too. What was your last count? Mine was 0.87 so I think the chances of poisoning going ahead on Wednesday are remote. Having said that the onc went ahead last time when they were at this level, I sometimes get the impression that as long as I am still standing he will keep dosing.
I can lend you a vein if you like Ninja as all mine seem to be intact still, I think 4 lots of tax may finish them off but for now I am happy to lend one to you. Good luck today with your scan!
CM I quite like the new look actually.
My last count was 1.0 on Friday, 0.6 on Saturday but as I was falling at a rate of minus 0.4 per day, perhaps 0.2 on Sunday and rock bottom now. I’m predicted to start climbing again from Tuesday onwards when my little bone marrow recovers and does its stuff for me. The lack of mucous membrane in my gob seems to have started resolving itself so maybe the bone marrow has already woken up. Or maybe it’s all the healing crap I’m coating my mouth in.
Thanks for the loan of the vein, toss it Yorkshire-wards. I’ll try not to abuse it too much.
Have they suggested giving you a jab to increase your neuros?
Ninja, sounds to me as though you really, really need a line! I had blood taken from the inside of my wrist at one point which was blimmin’ painful and left a huge swollen bruise so you really don’t wwant that if you can help it!
Those chasing neutrowotsits - don’t panic, just keep looking. At one point mine were at 0.2 on a Friday (how I escaped being admitted I don’t know!) but had picked up to 1.6 by the next Wednesday so I could have chemo. After that I had Neulasta/skelligrow each time.
Can’t lend out any of my little white chappies at the moment though - they’re working flat out for me, fighting the most appallingly awful cough/cold I’ve ever had in my entire life. Just hope I can avoid a coughing fit in the middle of today’s nuking session. Won’t be able to blow my nose for 20 minutes either so I’d better take a dozen Sudafed before I go. Lying half naked under the James Bond laser beam with snot running down my face will not be a good look.
Jane xxx
Ninja vein on its way to you, I hope it helps. Neutrowotsit count was 0.87 after 10 lots of Filgastrim, not much hope for me really! I get 10 lots every time so I dread to think what I would be like without them.
Alto I hope you feel better soon but I would be grateful if you didn’t share your cold, I think it may finish me off at the moment.
Think I’ll head for the isolation tent - hope it’s well stocked with honey and lemon and a mountain of tissues.
Jane xxx
Hi Alto, I already have a portacath; my veins aren’t damaged by poisons, just shrunken by being very unwell over the last week or so. The haematoma is because I don’t have any platelets ATM until they start being produced in my little chemo-shattered bone marrow cells.
Unfortunately, having direct access to my heart isn’t always the best route for everything e.g. general anaesthetics and also e.g. infusion of a contrast agent while I’m lying on my chest with my t**s dangling in a box for the MRI. Portacath use/flushing is also not everyone’s area of expertise so I sometimes have to wait for 2 hours after in-patient infusions finish for (a) a nearby doctor or (b) a chemo nurse, to detach the giving set/line and do the heparin flush.
1-2-3, everybody do the Heparin Flush! In, out, flush it all about! Oy!
I *HATE* everything about all this! All I can do is drink plenty today and get a hot drink in hospital Costa Coffee shop just before going in MRI place.
Did I say I’m growing weary of all this crappiness? I just want to be well again 
Alto I will send PB et al round with the tissues, honey and lemon and anything else you desire.
Ninja you sound like me, I was totally fed up with it all last week, now I have just gone back into my resigned state.
Morning all, sorry but I escaped for a few days, its been the Stag/Hen weekend and yes I had a brilliant time, loads to drink and got up without a hangover too, so that’s what I call a result.
Anyways back to normal for a few days, then get married at the weekend, come on ladies you have time to talk me out of it lol.
I’m sorry for those of you who are not feeling well, having SE’s etc i’m sure that they will fade in time and I hope that you will all be feeling a lot better in the next few days.
So to save me taking a day to catch up by reading back, has anything happened, ie PB stripped off, sung a song etc. NE turned human again.
Anyways I’m in the JM for a couple later today if anyone fancies a chat, off now to the relaxation tent to chill and do some meditation.
TTFN
Eunice x
Jo, I have been fairly upbeat through this until last week when I was so ill and was weepy all week. I feel like I’ve turn ed a corner now and although still floppy and feeling pathetic, I’m much better than I was.
We need a cheering-up fairy!
Saphy - just HOW excited are you? I think that we need to have a Woods Hen Night this week. We could have virtual cocktails, karaoke, everything. I’m looking forward to it.
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