Hello bunnies
It really is quiet in the warren, but as others have said hopefully this is due to the good weather and that we’re all sunning ourselves.
LittleChick I’ve been wondering all day how you have been getting on. You are in all of our thoughts. Let us know how you’ve got on.
Natalie, what did your chemo nurse say about the cystitis? I’m sure I’ve read somewhere that it is a recognised possible SE. There are so many possible SEs that I reckon anything can be put down to the effects of the chemo!! Hope it’s getting sorted out. Vanns, hope your granddad continues to improve. There’s been lots of talk about red wee - mine is only ever red for the first time of going then turns straw coloured. I guess we all metabolise differently.
Sara, I’ve been in stitches with your cat stories. We had two cats for many years, one died aged 18 and the other aged 19. The one that died aged 18 was a squirreller - he was a dab hand at catching them. He used to eat the whole lot apart from the tail and had a ‘trophy cupboard’ at the back of our garden that we discovered one day when gardening - a line up of about 20 tails. Sometimes be brought them into the house which was truly yukky. I’d be sitting relaxing after work and go to put a mug down on a glass top table and spot a tail through the glass, under the table! He was amazingly skilled at catching them. The other used to catch mice and most mornings there was a mouse stomach on the back door mat for me to get rid of. Mega yuk! Sometimes a head as well but never anything else. Bizarre. Every day I used to ask myself why I loved them both so much, but I did. The mouser was female and had a litter of kittens. She brought mice into the house when the kittens were only a few weeks old and would try and teach them how to catch the mice, chasing them up and down the room - until I got rid of them. The mice that is!!
Natalie, Coventry sounds good to me as a possible meeting place, but like you I’m happy to hear what other people suggest.
Well, I’m off for my blood test in the morning and see if my white cell count has come up after being too low for chemo last week. Assuming it’s back up I’ll be getting FEC3 on Wednesday. It’s amazing the difference the few extra days between blasts of sparkly stuff have made to how I feel. I feel so much better than I have for weeks. It’s horrid to know how I will be feeling in a couple of days time but at least this little respite has made me realise that when chemo is finished it won’t take long to start to feel ‘normal’ again. And then the rads will start … but I don’t think they will be anything like as bad as the chemo. I’m still obsessing about having the cannula inserted again - my hand still isn’t right after FEC2 (the revenge) - but I have been prescribed some Emla cream to anaesthetise the hand before the cannula goes in this time.
Thinking of everyone at whatever stage in their cycle they are at. Together we are getting through it.
Love to everyone. Sorry not to have responded to many of the things that have been raised by other bunnies.
Love, margieteexx
