On crochet subject, I work with a lovely girl who is terribly innocent, and I’m wondering if I can fool her into crocheting a merkin if she doesn’t see a picture beforehand, just the pattern… hehehehe. Not sure it would go down well at the church meetings she goes to on a Sunday to crochet at…
Oops. Hope have not offended anyone - but image too grinny to resist.
Sophie
Crabbie - I missed the socks bit. Mmm, is your OH wearing it?
TroyMaiden - I’m in staffs seems to be away from everyone else.
staycalmandcarryon i am also in staffs xx pm if wish xx
Penny
and I’m just a little south in Warwickshire so we have a Midlands “chapter” for Breast Angels! xx
Hi All,
Am close to Troy & Trip so we have a “chapter” too 
xx
And I’m in Brum.
Cheryl
So do we have to fight when we meet or am I thinking too much Bull Dog Bash? Merkins at dawn ladies? x
Lol, Mary Grace, the only fighting will be against the gremlins & when we win we can shake our merkins in the air xx
Good idea, I’m fighting lots of gremlins tonight. Results tomorrow and I feel fairly jittery.
I know that I can cope whatever they say but I am still nervous of needing further surgery and chemo (when they originally said rads and tamoxifen next). They seemed pretty clear on biopsy that i have a tubular bc (apparently you can see the cell shape under a microscope) and some DCIS and that it is usually e+ I suppose until its out they don’t know for sure but I certainly don’t cope well with uncertainty. Fighting the whatif gremlin and sinking in yesterday’s quicksand. I went out to keep busy today but the nerves are kicking in now.
Will definitely be on night watch tonight. Don’t think sleeping is on the agenda. So how many merkins do you think I can knit in one night? x
That’s the spirit!
Cheryl
Mary Grace - Lets just hope you don’t get them all stuck together when you’re sticking the googly eyes on 'em!
CM is near to me too 
So maybe we can all be the Southern chapter of Breast Angels?
Helen xx
hey marygrace, I am in coventry, I like to think of it as in warwickshire…
lol, south coast chapter…
Lif signing in, in steriod, TAX, Herceptin and beer induced haze…will be on the nytol in a minute and crashing out… Thats the last one…I hope for ever…Going for my tatoos on Monday and stert rads and tamoxifen on 21st Feb I think I can see light…woo hoo xx
Ladies, you are fab. Complete nutcases, but fab ones. I’m loving the Breast Angels chapters, I’m in the Posh Chapter – leafy Surrey, doncha know! - so nuffink as common as Sahf Coast Chapter for me! (I can just imagine the pained expressions on so many faces if a troupe/crowd/[insert suitable collective noun] of uni-breasted, leather-clad, round, bald women on Harleys (oh, I wish I had one of those…) roared through the streets of the county town. The tutting would be deafening!)
So instead I think we should just adjourn to the drag strip beside the swamp so that you can all learn to ride motorbikes before we start terrorising the rest of humanity. I’ll even see if I can get hold of some stabilisers for the more nervous amongst you, we’ll have you popping wheelies in no time!
I think we should have a competition between ourselves to see who can knit the most outrageous merkin. Someone surely must have some way we can post pictures of our creations? Technical savvies among us, step forward please. Trip’s suggestion to persuade others to make them inadvertently had me rolling, what a brilliant (if terribly naughty) idea! I think you’d have to stop before the decorating stage though in case she figured it out. Seriously, ladies, I will at some stage find my knitting needles and MAKE one of these things, and will post it as my avatar. I have to add that it’ll just be sitting innocently on the table when I take the picture, I shan’t be modelling it, the cellulite thighs would not be something I’d subject you to.
So glad for you, Lif.
Cheryl
Cromer, I didn’t realise you were in Coventry. I will have go have rads (chemo?) at the Walsgrave, we should meet for a coffee sometime if we coincide?
Right then where is that clearmargins fairy? Appointment at hospital this morning for results and what next. Funnily enough fears now replaced with steely resolution (don’t know where that one came from but it feels better anyway). I’ll let you know later whether i’m for more surgery or only need rads/tamoxifen. Funn how that can seem positively attractive as an option! xx
MG, if it’s any consolation, re-excision is much less traumatic than WLE and SNB, and is a much shorter period of anaesthesia. It’s very frustrating to have the brakes put on further treatment because of re-excision, and of course the worst bit of it is being kicked back into The Waiting Room again to wait for re-excision results, but if you do have to have it, don’t sweat. Today’s results will move you forward.
The ClearMargins fairy must be around somewhere but I’m blowed if I can see her, I think she’s run off with the Results Monster and the pair of them are at it behind the beer tent! I’m going to call my BCN today to see if she knows where they are. (I’m sure she’ll get sick of me contacting her all the time.)
SEARCH PARTY PLEASE!!!
Hi Choccie, if I need a re excision so be it (and just when it is healing up so neatly!) more worried about the nodes (which appear clear but they tell me is only 70% accurate until confirmed).
I know what you mean about the Results Monster and Clear margins fairy. Neither have been seen for a while, I’ll look out for them and if I find them I’ll send them your way! I keep telling myself having the wire marker in should have increased my chances (you’d think!) xx
MaryGrace, everything crossed for you this morning xxx
Lif, great that you’ve finished and can see the light. Onwards and upwards !!
Hope it was a quiet night in the woods for most ? P x