Enjoyed dinner out last night with friends but woke up with what feels like head cold! Blocked nose headache etc. Temp normal 36.5 so haven’t phoned anybody.Bit scared though!Anyone had a cold after starting chemo that didn’t develop into anything else?
Not bloomin’ affected appetite mind you?
Goodluck to anyone having chemo tomorrow- my fec2 a week tomorrow and don’t want it delayed.
Margaret
Seems that EverybodyPanic is doing the rounds tonight.
Glad you’ve calmed down P, but you really don’t need to hang on till the morning - no-one will be giving out the ‘patient who made the least fuss’ awards, so make sure you do go to A&E if necessary.
margaret - don’t panic about the cold it’s the temp that they worry about and you have a week to shift it before num 2.
…hang on, someone at the tent door, oh sh** EverybodyPanic now with me. My armpit is really uncomfortable tonight and feels swollen, feel like the chemo is missing that bit and now i’m thinking about it it feeld like my neck is hurting. FEC3 for me tomorrow so will tell onc.
Is it New Year yet??? When is it 2012???
Hiya all,
Peachez - If your temp goes over 37.5 for more than an hour, please please go to A&E; they SHOULD contact your Onc team for you and get you sorted with antibiotics if necessary, as they will be able to get them dispensed from hospital pharmacy.
It sounds like the JM will be serving anti-biotics as well as beer for the next 24 hours!
CM - found another beer for you to try - Doombar by Sharps. Having been off the booze since mid October, went to my local last night with my weekend visitor and ended up sinking two pints in very short order, very much to my surprise - I’ve now reserved a bar stool for the rest of the week!!
lots of love
XXHXX
Yup, TM, have had Doombar when I was down in North Devon in the Summer. Still prefer Pride but Doom was pretty good. (Perhaps NOT the most appropriate name under current circumstances…)
Tell you what, you lot, if I shift over a bit there’s plenty of room in my bucket of sand, it’s a great place to hide from EverybodyPanic. I’m sure you’d recognise EverybodyPanic if you saw him. Yes, it’s male. Face looks very much like Corporal Jones of “Don’t panic, Mr Mainwairing!” fame. Runs around yelling and flapping, but be careful of those pink fluffy wings, the feathers get RIGHT up your nose, and the swishing tail has a tendency to smack people round the back of the head. Hangs around The Waiting Room rather a lot, I’m sure you’ve seen him in there loads.
Peachez, you’re bound to have a duty doctor on call at your GP’s surgery, so call them up and see what they have to say. Don’t spend a sleepless night panicking.
I’ve been at the swimming pool all day (it’s behind the drag strip, but I was too busy to get the bike out) so I’m all hot and sticky, and a bit tired. At the risk of sounding a bit Germaine Greer, it’s so nice to see so many really fit, really toned young people who are a celebration of what’s beautiful about the human body. Nothing pervy, just admiration for and appreciation of the vigours of youth.
Thanks to all the BAs who have encouraged me with my varifocals. i went to see the Ice hockey match tonight and everything was really really clear. i could even see Thommo’s face (Blaze coach) on the other side of the rink. I even managed to walk back to the car without the pavement going all floaty. I reckon I am getting there.
With Tax or is it Herceptin i seem to have a constantly bunged up nose 8-( or is that just me.
I am waiting in the undergrowth for the Iamgoingtodie goblin along with her mate Whyisthishappeningtome with a very very large flamethrower. Meanwhile I am coaxing the Bringiton fairy to visit Peachez and Margaret. I hope this evening finds you both in a happier frame of mind.
Bloods tomorrow, chemo tuesday…Bringiton!
x sarah
Varifocals - tried 'em, absolutely hated 'em! I tried them for three weeks and just couldn’t get used to the nice straight shelves in Tesco going wavy every time I went shopping. I spent three weeks feeling vaguely nauseous, so I just took them back and got single-vision specs instead. I’m too vain to go for bi-focals, but once I’m 70 I’ll consider them. Meanwhile I have to look UNDER my glasses when I want to read, and I just put up with that fuzzy place between 5 inches from my face and 2 feet from my face where I can’t see clearly either with or without my specs. Might have to get a second pair, but the varifocals were yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck!
Go, Crabbie, Go!!!
I know exactly what you mean, CM. One of the pleasures of sports and athletics is watching human bodies at their best, functioning so well.
On the varifocal issue–I’ve worn them for quite a few years now, so it’s hard to remember, but I think I adjusted to mine very quickly. If you don’t, you should return to the optometrist. They have to be calibrated and fitted carefully. The real problem for me is things like trying to adjust the boxes that are inevitably put below a television, because it is almost impossible to look through the correct part of the lenses unless you lie flat on the floor. If you spend a lot of time in front of a computer screen you need to make sure it is adjusted for height and distance from your eyes, rather than tilting your neck all the time. (Or adjust the height of the seat.)
Cheryl
Marym I’ve got a stinking cold at the moment, nose stuffed up running like a tap sore throat and cough, no temperature though but I keep checking. Saw the GP friday, got penicillin to take just in case of bacterial infection, (White cells at lowest just now) same rules apply check temp if feeling unwell/shivery get back in touch ASAP.
Let’s see how we get on I feel. Miserable though.
Re varifocals, couldn’t live without mine can’t see to read or distance without specs (different prescriptions naturally) so apart from having two sets of specs on face/round neck and swapping constantly I’d be blind. Oh did try contacts a while back but needed specs to read, they tried to get a different prescription in each eye but they don’t make lenses strong enough for me to read with left eye, woe is me, makes the lenses for my specs very expensive too, specsavers never seem to do two for one in my prescription!!!
Pat
Good luck SCACO for today. Chemo at half term - always a good combination!! But think how EASY future half terms will be!! Re the aches, mine does too- was told it would, that is the cocktail doing it’s stuff apparently. Quite common, but there is nothing to worry about if it DOESN’T ache either! I found mine was quite hormonally affected, as my periods refused to disappear for the first few cycles.
Hope you are feeling ok today after dose later,
Tracey
Hope the colds get better Pat and Margaret. I have a snotty 6 year old in bed with me…alternately coughing, then stroking me. Am feeling a bit like a human Kleenex, so think I might not be able to avoid this one!
Tracey x
CromerSarah; thanks for the BringItOn Fairy, she’s a bit dishevelled this morning, but has managed to give the huge imgoingtodie monster a good kicking in the shins. Hope your bloods are ok.
BCN nurse has been in touch and I’m going to be seen tomorrow to be checked out, right after I have had my bloods done, except the two things are at different hospitals miles apart!! Temp has been up very slightly overnight compared to normal, highest it got was 37.4 so I am still chanting that it’s only an infection…OMG I really hope so…want to put head in bucket of sand, but OH is already in there…
Margaret; hope you’re feeling ok this morning. Keep an eye on your temperature.
Scaco; good luck with Fec3 today. Let us know how you get on with the Onc.
morning ladies,
im of to get my bloods done this morning in prep for fec 2 tomorrow, ive had swollen tonsills with 2 white spots on, temp fine though, i did call hospital who contacted my oncol, he said as long as i felt well which i do and dont have temp he was happy for me to wait till today for blood, so please keep fingers crossed that i have no infection and all can go ahead in the morning
take care ladies
love
Donna
xx
Peachez, so glad bcn has already been in touch - and hope you feel a little better knowing that you will be seen. Just keep an eye on your temp. in the meantime xxx
Fingers crossed for you, too, Donna.
Sophie xx
Glad the fairies are doing their stuff for you, Peachez. If you need some space in a bucket, I’m sure I could shuffle over in mine, there’s plenty of room in here and with it being a magic bucket, the sand’s quite pleasant on baldy scalps.
The Appointments Sprite has finally woken up, and OH now has a date for his postponed op - 4th March, so still before my rescheduled chemo. That was actually the date the onc had originally given me, so I was CLEARLY not meant to start on that date! It might put my attendance at Romsey into question though, as the lovely man will only just be out of hospital, or I might even have to go and collect him on 9th depending on how it goes, so can BA Coffee Bikers please remove change my “Definitely gonna be there” to a “Bluddy hope I can come”?
Got to go and get 14-yr-old from her sleepover, so will be back later. The parenting thing is just one round of taxi-driving followed by another and another, isn’t it! Can’t WAIT for her to be old enough to drive herself places!
CM - do hope you can make it, but there will be another meet, so no fears! I’m with you on the taxi driving thing, tho I suppose it’s my fault for wanting to move back into countryside with kids approaching teenage years… not the smartest move for transport, but worth it in every other way! My son is 17 in April, and I’ve been dropping hints that he might want to do his CBT as his birthday present… if he doesn’t pick up on it soon I shall just go out and get him a cheap 125, once he sees it on the garden I know he’ll get his act together!!! Strange boy… I’d been bugging my dad from the age of 12 for my first motorbike, there was no way anyone was going to forget what I wanted when I turned 17!!!
Sophie xx
Glad you are feeling a bit better Peachez. What a roller coaster this business is.
I may get my teenager some wheels for her birthday. But am thinking of a caravan. And putting it at the bottom of the garden. Or perhaps down the road…
Bad mother, xx
hello ladies,
blood taken all ok so ding ding round 2 in the morning,
2LT of water gone in, i hope the se are nice to me again,
love and hugs
Donna
xx
Good luck Donna, you’re doing really well xx
TSR thankyou so much, i keep thinking this time tomorrow i will be home,
good luck to everyone else this week
love and hugs
Donna
xx
Peachez, keep an eye on that temp - it really does sound like an infection (poss. cellulitis) to me - so fingers crossed that’s “all” it is.
Sending hugs your way Donna and hope the goodnight’ssleep fairy is hovering over you tonight. The comfy cushions in the dark corner of the tent are lovely for the few days after FEC!
And for all you fellow baldies out there, a friend told me today of something her dad used to say… “God made a few perfect heads and on the rest he put hair!”
Jane xxx