Am up too Mary Grace, will meet you at the gates, we can night watch together 
Sarah.xx
Sorry you’re also in the nightwatching camp Sarah. Don’t know what it is, I’m fine when I’m busy during the day but the gremlins come back at this time of day. Don’t know why particularly althoughave results on Friday and think I’m building up to that. Also my SNB scar has been sore and swollen this last couple of days. Seeing BCN in the morning but hoping its not early lymphodoema.
Maybe we can spend the night knitting merkins with sparkly beads on… x
Lol, my knitting skills are so not good, tell you what, you knit & i will stick the beads, we could get a bit of a production line going.
Waiting for results is the WORSE thing & your mind goes into overdrive at night.
Hope your scar is ok & Bcn gets it sorted for you, i was really lucky as had no probs with my scars (thank goodness) although breast is still very tender. I went for ultrasound to check my heart before i start chemo today & pressing that thing against my boob really hurt, she tried to go gently but needed to make sure scan was done properly so am feeling the effects tonight.
Sarah.xx
What a busy day today, I’ve only just managed to get round to listening to the radio thingy.
Anyone interested in my moment of fame? If so, here’s the link:
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00d83v6/Danny_Pike_31_01_2011/ from 21 and a half minutes, and again from about 43 and a half minutes.
I have to say, I hardly recognised myself!
Sorry ladies, I didn’t manage to tell them about the “other” hair that also goes, but I’m sure I’ll get the chance to sell a few knitted merkins over the course of the year.
Hi Sarah, Are you starting your chemo soon - do i remember this right from another thread? Hope it goes/is going well. I think i’ve just been a bit keen on the exercises and acting normal front in the last couple of days. Maybe a bit of fluid but probably just a result of me being a bit too keen to get on with life.
Choccie, nice interview, comes across really well. When is Ellie’s haircut and how are you adjusting the life in the short haired world? All the rage this season, you may decide to keep it short! x
Well done Choccie, really well done. xx
I have to say, MG, it really does look lovely and is much more flattering than my long plait. (But I liked my plait…)
Ellie’s haircut is 23rd Feb, and she has so far got £550! It’s that that let the tearful fairy get hold of me, particularly as several of you lovely ladies have also donated. What a special bunch of people you are.
Sleep fairy must be somewhere else, but I’m really tired, and this is BEFORE the poisons, so I just don’t know what’s going on in my head! Reckon I’ll try to go to bed now, and should drop off if I count Lif’s sheep and try to come up with imaginative patterns for those new garments we’ll be selling…
Hi Cm,
well done you, brilliant
Mary Grace, I start Chemo on the 9th Feb.
Sarah.xx
I am going to start another thread called, ‘Is your partner a rock or a **ck?’ at least I would if I thought it would be approved. Aaaaargh! I am setting up a new tent with some punch bags,
Tracey xx
Ps looking forward to listening to your moment of fame later CM x
Thanks again for kind comments re ‘bald head’. It counteracts my dad suggesting that i get some tattoos and Doc Martins. Thanks Dad!
I wore a wig the other day but it drovw me mad. I kept scratching it, which then made it wonky, which then made me worry that people were looking at me and wondering if i was wearing a wig, which seemed to defeat the objective of blending into the background! So have since gone ‘combat’ because then i at least know why people are looking at me! I’ve ordered some cotton cap things to wear under the wig, which might make them more comfortable - i will let you know. - maybe another line for our knitting products!
MaryGrace - i hope you get sorted today. I found a link for exercises to help with Lymphodoema, not sure if it’s any good but sometimes just feeling like you’re doing something positive helps!
LOL, fab idea Tracey xxx
Tracey - My OH fluctuates between the 2! Does this make him a CROCK?
x
Aaahhh! Dressings removed. BCN says lumpiness is just scar tissue and all healing well. Big deep bath to get rid of itchiness…
Course gremlins saying they are going to decide to clear more nodes/ re excise or something come Friday but all the more reason to make the most of it now! Xx
Ps: SCACo I love the idea of Doc Martins and fake tattoos/ piercings with a chemo head. I am quite decided this is the way to go if I need chemo. Would horrify my teen sons so much. They’d see a wig as needing sympathy vote (plus I’m right with you in the risks of ending up like Paul daniels/ Rowan Atkinson’s wiggy. The biker look though, that has a certain cool and the kids would particularly worry if I keep saying I like it and might stay that way. Evil snigger 
Thanks for the lymphodoema exercises. I am already exercising (well from straight after surgeryand probably why it hurt a bit) but will build in these as it the hand I use most and I want to protect it xx
Thanks, will have to ask OH to get one for me. Having another bad day, nearly fainted when getting up to go to the loo during the night–in fact I think I may have had a short faint while on the loo.
It’s better now, but looks like another day mainly spent in bed.
Cheryl
Sorry to hear that Cheryl. Sounds like a duvet day needed. I have rigged TV, laptop etc all to be accessible from bed. Hope you are similarly able to chill until this passes xx
CM - you were fantastic! Just when I thought that nothing about this bloody c would make me cry any more… lol. ‘Good’ tears, tho, if that makes sense. How’s your head today? Freezing?? xxxxxx So pleased at how Ellie’s fundraising is going too… bet she was gobsmacked, wasn’t she?!! Am going to hold her up as model of virtue to my 15yo who would rather be out partying all night than supporting her poor mother… (as if I’d have been ANY different, lol, and she is gorgeous when she’s here, so I figure she needs a good break from it all at least once a week!)
Sophie xx
Tracey - very good idea… but not sure mods would approve thread title, sadly, cos it’s perfect. Even tho mine is very much a rock… 80% of the time, that other 20% he’s not messing about… do not pass go, do not collect £200, go straight to the cock tent. and STAY THERE. lol.
Sophie xx
Mary Grace, I have the tattoos, used to have some of the piercings (but that’s my secret), but for the first time in my life I do NOT own a pair of doc martens, and think I may have to go out and rectify that as soon as I get a bit of energy back!!! I have a motorbike still, rusting away in the back of the garage, that I will not get rid of, because one day… but because I’m not riding at mo, I haven’t needed DMs… Think I might invest in a patterned pair for a change, as they’ll be purely for fashion and not utility…
And should we all wear white tshirts and red braces too?? We could end up with a gang-bo…
(and what a fab way that would be of raising bc awareness… the mono-breasted/non-breasted/slightly-lesser-breasted baldies kicking off… oooh)
Sophie xxx
Hi all,
About to commence my own journey through the woods…just reading back through previous posts…
Ann