Well, here;s hoping the big fat sleep fairy’s for me because now, piles I never knew I had are playing up.
“Scuse me - is there a haemorrhoids fairy around?”
That’s what I get for going without my merkin when I had my kilt on.!Think I’ll have a wee drink in the JM then get my Native American outfit on (politically correct)- swap my flamethrower for a bow and arrow and a spear with an arrow on the end.
Where’s the campfire?
AHEEAHEEAHHEEYAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Feel better now!
Was going to have my head shaved on Friday but although it’s a bit brittle it’s still there- wonder if it would last until Tues,
Hope you’re all feeling better!
X X X Margaret
PS I’ve hid some chocolate so I;ll bring it along! sssshhhhhhhh!
Sarah - we didn’t bring the anti-trafficwarden-flamethrower to Romsey did we? Bad move, evidently… bummer! How much did you get stung for??? Helen, glad you parked more fortuitously… obviously at the other end of the warden’s rounds…
Thank you both for fab couple of hours - we will do again soon, along with any others from the southern chapter who fancy coffee, cake and cackles?!! You are both looking v.stunning still, esp. considering first chemo was only a week ago… here’s hoping neither of you need baseball caps before next meet…lol… I think perhaps you should both get camouflage ones like mine as part of our BA uniform…
Was great to escape the woods for a while… but was ridiculously tired when I got home, it felt like I turned the ignition off, and my energy levels died with the engine!!! OH had made tea… so haven’t done a lot since then!
Have tough day tomorrow, though sure it’ll be laughter filled, as going to see dear friend of mine who has cancer in lungs/liver/spine/hip… dx just before Christmas after putting it all down to arthritis and ageing (she is a bit older than me…). She’s doing chemo too, has second lot on Friday, first lot knocked her sideways and I wasn’t sure we’d have her for much longer, but she’s nothing if not a fighter… so going down tomorrow with smile firmly pasted on face and couple of bottles of plonk in back of car…
(and I have told her that breast cancer is actually the ‘in’ one at the mo, so once again she is completely out of step with fashion…)
Sophie xxxx
Hope you guys had a good meet up! Parking tickets aside…
I’m not too bad this morning, day 3, with final tax. Took final steroids, and performed last neulasta jab yesterday, which was a relief. The piriton has helped me sleep, and so far, made me less prone to the night sweats, although I don’t know how much is coincidence! Xwelcomex was commenting that her oestrogen was very low by that point, so it may be that…
Who’s next for another dose? Friday Sophie?
SCACO, you really sound like you have embraced the ‘naked’ look, well done! I had a wig trauma this week. The only reason why I bought one is because I am matron of honour at my brothers wedding soon, and I don’t want to stand out in the photos etc…Anyway, my 6 year old told me I looked scary. The teenage daughter told me it would look ok once it was ‘styled,’ (it was meant to be already), and my husband told me I looked like one of our son’s teachers (male), who also wears a wig…that was the icing on the cake…Not the sort of response I was looking for really!
Tracey
(sobbing quietly into pile of poorly styled, flammable hair)
When I finally took my wig out of its box, I couldn’t get it to look right, but after it had hung on its stand for a couple of days it looked much better. (I got one of the cheap stands.) Another possibility is to ask your hairdresser if they style wigs or can recommend a specialist other than the one who styled it in the first place. If you were thinking of a hat or headband, arrange to take it along.
People have been nice about my wig, but it’s not the same as my own hair, which is very fine, hangs differently and moves more than the synthetic of the wig. The plus is that it doesn’t go completely straight the way my hair does.
Cheryl
Morning Campers,
I see a glint of sunshine through the trees 
Hope everyone has slept well & se’s are being kind, good luck for Tax today Tracey hope all goes ok.
Wigs … mine is sat on stand on top of daughters wardrobe waiting quietly to be put to use, she says that everytime she enters her bedroom that she has to make a mental note that it is there as has freaked her out on more than one occasion.
Here’s to a good day for all & i will be in the Jm for a lunchtime drink if the sun stays out
Love to all
Sarah.xx
Ps could someone loan me the keepyourhairforabitlonger fairy as i have a best friends 40th on Saturday & would like if possible not to lose it mid party xx
Dawn Chorus woke me for the first time this year!!! Yey!!!
Trip; Romsey is 40 mins down the M3 from me, so I’d be up for the next Chapter meet! Have a good day with your friend today.
TSR; Toni&Guy have trained wig stylists, maybe there’s one near you, at least she can give you a professional opinion and actually be helpful! If it’s any comfort in the past I always knew I looked naff going out if my youngest said I looked nice - if it appeals to a 6 yr old Oh and start wearing it! It’s taken me over a week, but I am finally feeling ok in mine, you want to have some confidence in it staying on, on the day.
Sarah; sending the keepyourhairforabitlonger fairy. I kept mine til after Fec2, the nurses thought I was a cold cap girl. Nope. However it’s all gone now.Fec3 next Weds.
Margaret; may I have some of what you’re on please? ;-)))
Sorry I missed the virtual Casserole and Choccie Cake.
Hope everyone has a good day. P xxxx
Hi Peachez,
you will be more than welcome at next chapter meeting the only condition is that you must be able to consume one whole fattening cake for ones self followed by at least one fattening latte (or similar).
Romsey seems a good point as all of us seem to be about 30/40 mins away.
Hope all is well, virtual Steak & chips followed by fruit sorbet on the menu tonight, see you at the Jm.
Sarah.xx
easy peasy lemon squeezy!! :-))
Just been greeted at my own front door - without a hat or the dreadful new wig - as, ‘good morning young man…’ GOOD morning, well it WAS!! Just having to remind myself, that I have done the last one now. Could have done with a Northern chapter behind me though, as I rounded on him with, 'fortunately I am not a man, it is JUST the chemotherapy… ’ Aaargh!
Thanks for tip Peachez, I have phoned my hairdresser, who has done the odd wig in the past. It can’t get much worse today.
Tracey
Xx
Tracey,
Never mind the Northern chapter, a representative from Southern chapter (Me) is on her way to bop offending person on nose !!
Sarah.xx
Thanks Sweetie!
T x
Hi Tracey, charming, I would just assume he is not the full shilling.
Mind you, I would settle for being called young, even if they assumed I was a bloke! Does this mean you can adopt bloke behaviour? I suggest you begin by putting all the toilet seats up, pee on the carpet, refuse to cook and clean and clear off to the JM for a pint! (someone once called me an “honorary bloke” - so where’s the honour exactly!) As northern - even though not living there now - I suggest the tattoos, piercing route and headbutting him next time he calls round as a preventative measure… Poor fella probably will never deliver your post again in any case and will seek compensation for the trauma you inflicted on him…
Fancy a drink down in the JM son? xx
Cromer Sarah, lovely to meet you “for real” earlier. Game to do coffee again soon and promise not to flash Amy scars or demonstrate symmetry of boobs any more ! Xx
Mary Grace, up for the drink, as soon I have got rid of this lot of se’s!!
Tracey
X
Me, me, me, I wanna come too, and I’ll bring cake if you’ll tell me where the coffee’s going to be!
Romsey, now where is that again? Peachez, I think we’re reasonably close to each other so depending on who’s feeling crappest, perhaps we could drive down together some of the way?
Someone’s nicked my bucket. I took it off when talking to the oncologist so as not to provoke him into getting the men in white coats to cart me off in a snazzy new jacket with very long sleeves, stashed it neatly under my chair, only to find when I went to pick it up again that some bugger’s gone and made off with it! I reckon it was the Reality Troll. I’m now counting down to 4th March when 6 x FEC starts and will probably be in full-on panic mode by the end of Feb.
Onc was pretty good and his registrar was also very thorough and answered most of my questions before I had to ask them. He even said he’d try to get me a portacath, and I said I WOULD have one even if I had to take out a bank loan to pay for it (which is exactly what I’d have to do, that or borrow the money for it from someone else), but he said we should just try first to get it funded. I’m still working on other avenues in the meantime, just in case I’m not successful.
I now have several reams of notes (my own) to decipher. I must’ve been off school on the day they did handwriting lessons as everything I write looks like an epileptic spider dipped in ink has been crawling across the page, so I’ll go through my “notes” to see if there was anything shocking or startling in them. Don’t think so.
Still a bit bemused about my bucket. I’d grown rather attached to it and now it’s gone the world’s looking a lot scarier.
Afternoon Campers!
OooH! Some sunshine has peeked in my tent today! Have just met someone I’ve not seen in ages and had another caffeine fuelled day so about to collapse and monopolise sofa whilst kids are out! She’s a year on from non-Hodgkins lymphoma and is doing OK so I may’ve recruited another BA for southern division.
Tracey, I’ve arranged for the parkingticket gremlin & speedcamera warlock to visit your myopic visitor, rather than anyone else in the BA’s.
Peachez - would love to meet you @ the next bunfight - demolishing large muffins and v large lattes the order of the day?!
Following yesterday’s escape, I’ll be in the massage tent for a little while as my arm wasn’t too happy this AM, but hey ho well worth it!
My guinea-pig (wig) is still in it’s box but guess it needs to come out to play soon. I was told not to put it on a head thinghy so ideas for wigstands are welcome this end?!
XXHXX
PS CM - You’ll only be a day after my FEC 2 so you can share my buckets! ( yup, got more than one - well I was a brownie after all!)
Helen, look like me and choccie muffin are up for the next meet, any idea when? I have a sort of open plan wig stand that’s a bit like two coat hangers criss crossed and standing on end, I suppose it lets the air in, I drape a fine scarf over mine to keep any dust off.
TSR, have dog that you could borrow, she’s not very big but will lick anyone who knocks at the door til they run away… Hope your hairdresser manages to lift your spirits about wiggy … xxx
About to collapse on large comfy sofa now I’m back from work, have to go out again later - feel some caffine may be needed… stoke up the camp fire for evening girls, it’s getting cold here…
Pxxx
Hiya,
Is there room around the camp fire for one more?? I’ve just been speaking to ChoccieMuffin… I’m in the Guildford area and would love to join you all on your next meet?
Sarah xx
hello ladies,
i think the letsmakedonnacry witch visited me last night and told me how ugly i look with my make-up and hair done, the wicked cow, so yes im feeling emotional today, ive always done hair and make everyday and now i wont use mascara to protect my lashes for the day when i want to use mascara (am i making sense) i wont wash my hair as im using the cold cap, so this person walking around is just not me,
sorry to moan
Donna
xx