Sarah, I’ll be joining you on the night patrol tonight as currently feeling like I want to strip off and run in rain naked to cool down! (sorry if TMI folks) I knew it rained today for a reason…
Had a “slight” wobble over cold cap and will now be loosing hair for definite, wasn’t that attached to it in the first place and the bits I really wanted to keep weren’t covered by it.
So I’m wondering when my eyelashes will be off to join the party in the woods!
Otherwise ok so far and hoping everyone else is too!
Well done all on getting through treatment, results meetings and so on.
Helen, wow! So many mental images there. You skipping around starkers like a wood sprite whilst the eyebrows scuttle around on the ground and the sets of eyelashes flutter above you like little butterflies… xx
Glad all’s well in the wood and Sarah don’t worry about the flush, it’s giving the woods a beautiful glow.
I have had endured the company of OhGodItsSpread today. I have terrible pains (achey, stitch like)spreading, from the nuisance Boob, under my arm and then into my shoulder blade area.
Now, under any other circumstances i would just presume i’d slept on it, but obviously YouCan’tThinkStraight has put a stop to that.
I’ve made an appointment to see my Consultant tomorrow, which is reassuring because at least she will know what’s what. i’m having mx after chemo,I don’t know if any of you lovely lot are in the same boat (why a boat in the woods??)but if you’ve had something similar please share.
I’ve had every test known to Woman, so should feel reassured, but lymphs were ‘suspicious’, which is hardly reassuring and can’t help myself but wonder…
Please send all back-up to blast these unwanted visitors back to their swamp.
Well done feccers! Good job we have the glowing moonfaces to light up the woods! I will release thegetupandgo fairy for you Sue…but please send her back soon as got stuck in bog and will need a shove to get out!
scaco…the clearnodes fairy is around so will send her over in your direction…Will not be having alkyhole for several days as everything tastes of cotton wool…bloomin tax grrr will be in the jingling merkin next week…xx
Anne, wonderful news for you, so pleased to hear good news
Hi Scaco, (((hugs))) It really is impossible not to think the worst sometimes isn’t it? I’ve already had Mx, and I get shooting pains in the shoulder blade on the same side. I’m sure it’s muscluar - I just get tense on that side without knowing I’m doing it. Maybe try a Tramadol and see what it’s like in the morning? Let us know how you get on with your Onc.xxx
I’ve been trying to get rid of the I’mDoomed fairy.
Been around for a few days now. Every time I turn round the CancerInTheNodes monster & his pet the VascularInvasionImp are laughing thier ars*s off at me… :-(( off to sit on a sad sack…
SCACO, Peachez, I know its horrible but just think this chemo drugs are zapping any blighter cells around. They don’t know which bit they’re meant to be treating, they’re going to batter any c cells anywhere.
If it is any consolation, I had no lump and no symptoms before the biopsy but had pains under the arm and below right shoulder blade (I had rightsided bc) immediately afterwards. Now know nodes were clear but still have pain in back of shoulder blade (maybe some nerves end there or something?!) Nodes under arm definitely hurt and it wasn’t anything. Several people on here told me they were the same and thought it was either the biopsy pokig around which upset lymphs or possibly your body is reacting to the poison in it.
I know how easy it is to worry and how scary this is. Believe me I’ve spent plenty of nights doing that and still do, but you will get through it and the gremlins will go xx
Scaco, sorry you’re having all these worries but no idea. Do you have BC nurses you can contact?Sending all the positive /reassuring fairies scuttling about.Glad you,ve made appt. with consultant hope it’s not too long a wait.
hugs and kisses
Margaret
Gosh, the woods are positively aflame tonight, aren’t they? I’m another one with what looks like a lovely healthy glow… mind you, it makes the bald patch on my head look even whiter. Not a good look…
And I also had pains in my armpit lymph nodes after the biopsy but nothing before. OK, so I did have 6 affected nodes but could feel absolutely nothing before so I’m sure it’s the biopsy that does it - maybe some kind of internal bruising?
Had my neulasta jab today. Must be liquid gold that stuff - I heard it was expensive and have googled a bit and found costs quoted from between £600 and £1000 a jab - it’s more in the States!!!
Who’d have thunk it a few months ago, that I’d be sitting on a log, glowing gently, with ginger ale and sherbert lemons to hand whilst watching a naked Helen gambol amongst the escaped eyebrows…
Scaco - I hope your consultant appointment tomo discovers it’s only muscle pain, I had similar and saw BCN to be referred for physio.
I’m wondering how long it will take to train all escaping eyebrows to help in the craft tent with knitting merkins??
The IceQueen and noIdon’tlikebrainfreeze gremlin put paid to the cold cap experiment along with the Icantstopcrying monster, so the hair will be getting shorter to no-existant. Hey ho, not that worried - I’ve got the guinea-pig as the kids have christened it (rather worryingly it does look like my 1st pet in it’s little box) once the “real” stuff pushes off
I’ve now stuck two fingers up at the vascularInvasionImp as whats currently making me even consider dancing naked in the rain is bashing it well and truly on the head.
I’m seriously wondering about myself here - I’ve also volunteered my services to go to Stonehenge and roll naked in the dew with the Druids on summer solstice! (Repressed hippie - no way, as biker girl from early age anyone got any ideas?)
Enjoy the ginger beer and I’m off to defrost the freezer!
lots of love
XXHelenXX
Well done all of you who’ve been fecced today and yesterday. I really am feeling left behind! I was diagnosed at the start of December and so far have just had WLE and re-excision. No wonder it doesn’t feel real, I haven’t started the big treatment yet!
There are some shocking mental pictures in the woods this evening, from glowing tonsures, naked hippies, flocks of eyebrows and eyelashes, and lord knows what else!
Many thanks for sending the getupandgo fairy LIF: I have just about enough energy to tackle the ironing and right eye is twitching wildly tonight, probably the bright glow from the faces of the feccers.
SCACO: I will be leaving the woods for mastectomy valley next month and occasionally get pains in dodgy boob and armpit. I rang my BCN who was very reassuring regarding this. She said it could be due to necrotising tissue ( sounds unpleasant but should be exactly what the chemo is for). I hope you have found the calmmedown fairy; we all need her and her cousin, the allwillbewell sprite from time to time on this journey.
This evening the woods is a safe place to be.
Sue
The bloomin feelinsorryformyselfairy has just kicked in with both feet - going to bed so please send the goodnightsleepfairy and the givemeaquickkickinthebutt fairy to get me up in the morning!
Oh and the schools are off until next Thursday up here!Oh Joy!
x x x auld crabbit face lolol
ps I’ll be back to normal soon!
Feeling totally bleuuuurgh today so if anyone’s looking for me I’m propped up on some comfy cushions at the back of the tent with a bucket by my side. I’ve got a mug of ginger tea in one hand and my Kindle in the other.
No bright lights or loud noises down this end of the tent please!
Oh dear, poor you lot. Seems that HahYouThoughtYou’dGotAwayWithIt is doing the rounds as it was in my tent on Tuesday. If the sickness pills you’ve been given aren’t working call your hosp and ask what you can get as a prescription from your docs - i did this Tues and ince the Cavalry arrived in the shape of pills all was much better.
Thanks for your messages they’ve really worked and I’ve woken up in a much better and brighter mood and funnliy those pesky pains aren’t half as bad. Who’s betting that if i cancelled my appointment (which i’m not) they would return!
Keep yourself comfy in the sick bay today, sending ThereThere to mop your brows (with instructions to be gentle on any remaining eyebrows)and You’llGetThru’This as company.
Thanks for sending the kickmeinthebutt fairy this morning- Feel nearly human! Going to rest though and still planning(light)meal out tonight!
Rest up, take your meds see you in the recovery tent !
Glad you’re feeling better Scaco! Will I still be a feccer when I start on Tax —which I do not look forward to?
Margaret
I’m sure it’s not my place to comment on your ‘feccerness’ Margaret, maybe ask those who know you better to see if they think your a little feccer or not.
I’ve escaped the Tax as allergic to it, so i know i’m fecced up for the duration
I think since dx we are probably all totally fecced up with or without chemo. Commisserations to those feeling poorly today. Hope a duvet day in the “quiet” tent will have you all feeling much better soon. I will be on cleaning, ginger drinks and brow mopping duty if anyone needs a runner x
