Hello TSR,
Hi I’m a new girl, and it seems you’re at the far end of the woods and well done you for getting there and I’m at the other end…Can you see me?? Just got my new kit, flamethrower et al, whoa there it goes!!!.., am not too proficient yet!! and as I have been welcomed although am still lurking in the cutting room, I’m sure you as an old hand will still be welcome in the woods too!
Am feeling a bit weird cos all these girls are talking about their merkins jingling or otherwise!!..and I want one but don’t have need yet!! Bit odd, but I have discovered this whole bc thing is odd so I guess I don’t have to feel embarrassed!
Ok, sloe gin packed in rucksack and I’m up for whatever party is in town, I definitely saw a light on somewhere down the path but as I have only just got my kit from Scaco, I haven’t ventured very far!!
Yes, weird isn’t it, dumbell indeed!! Big fat Tumour…long line of cancer cells…big fat tumour!! (ie dumbell!) gone now though,just those stray dodgy margins!
Yes I noticed the creative, author, writery thing when I read the whole thread in one sitting when it was down. Anyway, don’t want to jump onboard your project but can help with publishing contacts if required…
And I too would like to congratulate any and all on hair regrowth wherever and I never thought to be thrilled for someone, that I have never met to have a new LG!! But hey ho, I want a merkin of my own and how weird is that!!!
Ok girlies, the champagne is on ice, there are various bowls of crisps and nuts and i have managed to find somewhere to heat up some sausage rolls… Karaoke machine warming up nicely, and ibuprofen on standby for the morning… My terribly good news without wanting to go into too much detail involves the “critical illness cover insurance policy fairy” who i had totally forgotten about but she has kindly come my way and sprinkled her magic dust over my life… A happy camper indeed tonight…xxxx
Its great that the bc is gone. I have held onto that as a positive and was also a long, long time in the cutting room. My re-ex is definitely more sore than the first time. Weirdly I have a pain in the back of my right shoulder as well as the whole throbbing, occasional shooting pains. I was four weeks between first and second ops and I remember going through the comparable phase so am hoping it will die down. I am now three weeks post second op (dx 6th Jan, WLE/SNB 24th Jan, re-ex 25th Feb). This has to be one of my longest three months ever… and I’m not even going through chemo. I am trying to take the “this too will pass” mantra with me - though I can no longer quite remember who said it… I think someone removed a few brain cells while they were about it (I said this to a colleague who missed the black humour and said “oh dear” as though I might quite possibly have had a lobotomy along the way) x
I checked my policy as I couldn’t even quite remember what was and wasn’t covered. On discovering that mine would pay out only if I was dx terminal I decided I’d rather be broke thanks!! Should have been more provident like you xx
Ha Ha!! Isn’t it funny when you make a joke about stuff and because others feel for you about your dx they don’t quite get the humour!!
We are soooo twins!! Me dx 5th Jan, WLE/SNB 25th Jan, Re-ex 28th Feb and now nxt appt with surgeon 28th Mar for decision on nxt surgery.
This is probably not the thread for all the details but will pm you or you me, cos I think we are traelling a fairly similar journey, also you can let me know where if any help required re book idea…
Hope you are keeping ‘up’ This too shall pass is a good one and so to is the Yoda (Star Wars ref!) saying, “The only way forward is through”!!! Quite a good motto for the woods>
Hurrah Sarah - the drinks are on you!! All of them x
Wandy, feel free with the Merkin, you could always wear it as a chin beard (as opposed to bottom beard) whilst you are waiting for the dispersal to commence. Actually, reading other posts facial hair seems to be the thing to look forward to after completing chemo so you’ll just be one step ahead.
TSR - you sound like you have definitely made it through to the other side. Maybe, with the shy return of certain hairyness, you could construct a rocket to propel your now redundant merkin to our new happy camper Wandy.
P.s A warm welcome wandy, this thread has been my sanity over the past couple of months, Bc is a bitch but if you can have a laugh along the way it has to count for something.
I have been out commando 3 times now! I kind of love the weird stares you get, hang on am i the weird one for the loving the weirdness?? Bring on the warm weather and i shall be sporting one of those golf visors you can get with a big pair of Chanel sunglasses for extra effect!! And possibly some white flared jeans and shocking pink wedges…
“Plink… FIZZ…” thats the first bottle of Bolly opened btw…xx
Bottoms up, chin chin and all that…
Am liking the mental image of your new persona.
Wandy, definitely spooky similarities. I am also a marketer by background and did a french degree way back when so maybe even more parallels. I will pm later on. Have to go and feed my locusts (otherwise known as teenage boys) who are currently ploughing their way uncontrolled through the contents of the fridge x
Helloooooo everyone! Sorry it’s taken me so long to traipse back into the woods, but (whisper it very quietly) I’ve been in work!!! Just for this week and next Monday before I’m back dancing with the chemo gremlins again.
Went to see my onc this mornign and had bloods done, and that flippin WBC gramlin was chasing me - I’m down to 0.52 with TAX1 on Wednesday… she seems fairly confident that it’ll pick up in time but I’ve got to go back on Tuesday to have it checked again. All a bit pooey really as Tuesday is when I’m having my Hickman line fitted and today was supposed to be my last stabbing session. I’m going to have Neulast after each TAX now and with the combination fo that and the TAX aches my onc said “Sorry, but you’ll feel as though you’ve been flattened”. On Wednesday night those cushions are MINE - apart from a nice fluffy one for Sarah 0212 wotsit(is it FEC3 Sarah?)
What is it about phlebotomists? They see my right arm as a challenge. Met the third one today who, when I said “you’ll have to use the back of my hand, you won’t get anything from my arm and I can’t even straighten it out” said, “I bet I can. I bet nurse A and nurse B didn’t use this particular type of stabby thing” or words to that effect. Guess what? My arm was dry again, veins like rock. So yet again she had to give up and re-stab the back of my hand, which is also chemo sore and bruises like billy-o. If the one who does me on Tuesday tries it again, I’ll tell her exactly where she can stick that flippin needle! Oh, and that elastic thingy they use really HURTS when you’ve got the chemoarm witch hitting it with sledgehammers.
Rant over.
Welcome Wandy!!! The woods are a wonderful place to come and hide and get drunk/take up knitting or whatever takes your fancy. I can see you all laden down with equipment - scary thought, you’ll soon be as mad as the rest of us! I’m exactly half way through now, having got FEC out of the way an am currently sitting in my deck chair in the glade soaking up the sun, girding my loins ready for the next assault.
Bring on the flattening!
Jane xxx
Thanks for keeping my bar stool warm today ladies - pour me a Crabbies!
Can I just say, I love this site, I love this thread and I love all of you!!..And I haven’t even started on the sloe gin which I have in my rucksack!
Thank you Scaco for the beard merkin idea, however being a perimenopausal woman, I’ve already got one of my own which I shall be delighted to lose through chemo if it comes my way!!
Sarabeara, thanyou for the welcome and I like the sound of that bolly being opened!!
Oh, and can someone set a trap for my eyebrows? Half of one has made a bid for freedom and what’s left is getting pretty good at doing a houdini impression.
Did anyone ever make some eyebrow merkins? Have to go easy with the bells or I’ll knock myself out, but some sparkles wouldn’t go amiss.
You don’t need a merkin for the eyebrows, I’ve found a couple of well-trained caterpillars on the lilac bush in the back garden who are waiting patiently for mine to run away, and then they’ll be able to take up residence. I just hope they don’t walk too far, I’m rather looking forward to losing the mustache. (How DO you spell that word? I’ve managed to grow one quite successfully but have never managed to write one…)
Of to the common to walk the hound and sample the local hostelry’s best efforts, back later.
And welcome, Wandy, just keep an eye out for the empty Crabbies bottles that Alto doesn’t recycle, and the raucous cacklings of the rest of us falling off our bar stools.