Hi all
LiF, have a fab day tomorrow, may the sun shine on your feather boa thingy.
Milly, I want to go on a younger women’s forum too as they have a session on reconstruction. I was thinking either Bristol (Sept) or Birmingham in Nov. If you’re going to Birmingham, let me know and I’ll go to that one too. TN is a good thing surely? you don’t have to bothered about which foods, cosmetics etc are phyto oestrogenic. Someone told me to buy organic milk because the regular version comes from cows that are injected with oestrogen to keep them producing. I don’t so much object to paying the extra for organic milk but why the frig can’t they make the 4 pint bottles? Most places only have 1 pint bottles - bigger supermarkets sometimes have 1 litre.
Reeb, congrats on eyelashes - even if they’re irritating your eye. I had to get the tweezers to my unruly growing eye brows yesterday.
Have a good day all
Hi girls,
Reeb, my muscles still ache a bit, but they are improving slowly. Sounds as if you’re suffering more, hope things improve soon.
My eyelashes were weird - remaining half fell out about a fortnight ago, but seem to have loads of short ones growing through already - think old ones must have loosened and new ones pushed them out.
Eyebrows now very short, unfortunately now having to use tweezers for the rogue chin hairs.
Last rad today - they have just rung to say machine has broken down, another is on service. They will ring later with another appointment, for one of the other two machines, later in the day.
Nottsgal - hope you find a forum to go to.
LiF - hope all goes well tomorrow.
Stella xx
hi
just to say I have taken the plunge & am all booked for brum in Nov - 6 months is a way off but I know if I don’t do it I will forget or find a reason not to so thought better do it now!!!
I’m interested in the reconstruction session & relaxation. They have very kindly offered for me to stay on the Fri night as well as sat as I am coming from sussex but I have offered to pay as they are a charity after all. I just want it all organised for me!!!
Hope some others can go too but am sure it will be great either way
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Hi girls. Hope all are ok. Have been reading but not posting much.
Hope the day goes well for Lif and her daughter.
Claire hope u had a good time in France.
Had reassessment as previously reported and was going to ask that if they had a cancellation could I be seen earlier. Nurse phoned Thurs and said i had a urine infection. Was just starting to get a bit of pain in my side and had a bad back. Was about to go and buy new bed! Anyway on antibiotics now for a week.
Anyone had problems with teeth after the chemo. My gums are sort of aching. Expect my teeth will drop out next!
Have a gd weekend all.
Polly xx
Hi Polly
Re teeth - yes I have a tooth that is very loose keep thinking it is going to drop out and that part of my gum is painful. Haven’t been to the dentist yet. Hoping that now I have finished chemo it will tighten up.
Diana
It seems strange that we are all contemplating going back to work. I have done my second week at work. I am doing 3 days aweek from 10 to 4. I have been really tired at the end of each day but enjoying it. I am now glad to have gone back to a new job. I went back 5 weeks after RADS
Had Onc follow up yesterday and all seems ok except that I need a bone scan due to back ache. Appt will follow shortly. Am a little worried about this but they do not think it is anything to be concerned about.
Kaz - hope your mum is OK after her cemo. I have also put weight on but oncs do not want me to diet as yet. Also been told I can walk but no strenuous exercise.
Lif - hope all went well and you and your daughter had a fabulous day.
Reeb - I had occ health appt before RADs had finished. Dr advised that I stay home until Sept and then return on phased return but the OCC health Co told me that I was capable of 2 full days a week straight away!! They ignored the doctor. Hope you get a better report and you can stay at home a little longer.
Janvis
Nottsgal… forget the ‘organic’ milk thing… that’s advice from someone who hasn’t really done their research (one of the reasons I do tend to avoid the food debates, as it is so difficult to weed out fact from fiction, quite apart from how upset everyone gets, and I really can’t be a*sed with that). I had this conversation with LiF about hormones being pumped into milk, and it is not something that happens over here in the UK. I think it may well do in the US (which is where a lot of the diet research we hear about here comes from), but it is NOT an issue over here.
By all means go ‘organic’… but don’t do it out of concern for being hormone +. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I’m looking at going back to work in a few weeks time, and all of a sudden I’m thinking, hmmm, can I get another sick note for just a couple of weeks? I’m feeling so much better now, that it would be really nice to just get on and sort the house out…lol. Also, eldest dd is doing work experience the last two weeks in June, which might make getting to my evening job tricky when I’ve only just started back… (eldest dd or eldest ds look after the little 'uns when I work evenings, if OH’s shift means he’s not at home)… eldest ds ‘might’ be around, but we’re hoping he’s got an apprenticeship as a chef, so I sort of hope he’ll be working too. Just taking an extra couple of weeks ‘sick’… hmmm. May have to look into it. Maybe I could just pass the sick note on to the evening job, and still do the day job, sort of ‘ease myself’ back in to the whole work situation?
That’s sounding better and better the more I think about it…
Sophie xxxx
Ttip, it wasn’t hormones being pumped into the milk, it was oestrogen being pumped into the cows to make them produce milk. I know that in Europe (unlike the US)farmers aren’t allowed to inject hormones into beef cattle. It was someone at the hospital said about it - I think the reflexologist but it could have been the psychologist.
The psychologist said 4 weeks after RADs was too soon to go back to work. I’ll get my GP’s opinion tomorrow. Definitely think it’d be too much going back to 2 jobs, so your idea of going back to day job first is probably v sensible.
Oops, no I meant into the cow… not the milk direct, lol! LiF would be the person to double check with on this, but I’m pretty certain that our milk is ok 
Sophie xx
Hi girls. Just in the subject if the organic milk. I read that cows who are grass fed have more omega 3 which us supposed to be good. I read a book called The anti cancer diet many months ago when I was in a chemo fog. Think it’s buried under the bed so I have to dig it out.
Polly x
Hello everybody…knackered, worn out, deliriously happy woman here! Wedding was the most perfect day ever…nothing went wrong, everyone had an amazing time and the sun even shone! I was spotted dancing the night away to Dreadzone, Beatles, etc and i am almost lost for words over how amazing it all was…
Day before we were all working like trojans getting the reception ready…it was at grooms dads…17th century manor house with just incredible barns and grounds! sinks were being plumbed in and flowers…oh the flowers! All from the local fields and hedges and some from covent garden…cow parsley everywhere! Beautiful lace paper bunting decked the walls with swallows swooping in and out to nests! Tables consisted of 4 huge tresles seating 30 on each…very Thomas Hardy! the chairs had been borrowed from several village halls as had the eclectic mix of plates! Each place setting had a linen napkin with hand printed name tag. The dance barn had a bar with a selection of local beers ciders and wines, I made lemonade all afternoon…sooooo many lemons to squeeze! The music was all set up and ready to go…
We all swept and cleaned and moved stuff…lamps were hung all around the gardwn and pond…and around the incredible infinity pool (a swimming pool that looks like it has no edge but drops away!) 50 oil lamps were prepared for guests to light their way back to their cars in the night…the carpark field was about half a mile up a tiny dark lane!
I set off to collect the pig for the hog roast from the abattoir (it was raised at my friends farm) now getting a 70kg dead trussed pig complete with head etc into a small hatch back was interesting but we managed and covered with a sheet it was transported to the hog roast farm from where it would magically appear at the wedding.
We then went to the church for the rehersals…Oh wow oh wow…small church in middle of field with flowers to make me cry…
Exhausted all the family, extended family and loads of friends decended into the local pub!..where we has a glorious pre wedding evening!
Saturday dawned and I got to the beautiful guest house where my daughters (bride and cheif bridesmaid) spent the night…we all got dressed up, made up and drank lots of champagne…for the nerves …! The photographer was there all the time taking shots all through…cannot remember her name but she is one of britains top female photographers…she was so lovely and casual!
Off we went to the wedding…and when I got there it was amazing and my lovely husband was waiting looking very dapper in his posh suit and winged collar…and all my kids looked amazing…!
The wedding went in a blur…beautiful…what more can I say…
We went out and after a bit the bride and groom drove off to the reception in and antique (1950s) open top sports car…
Reception went really well…Everyone had a ball and I am now home a proud and happy mummy! After all the crap we have been through over the last 18 months we deserved an amazing day and we got it!
They are now off on their honeymoon on the island where the film Mama Mia was filmed!
All the pics will be on FB and I will put a link to a few other places when they are up so you can be nosey!!!
xxx
Milk…
For those worried about milk and dairy products and hormones…
Milking cows in the UK and Europe are not under any circumstances organic or non organic given ANY hormones at all to make them produce more milk. Cows, both organic and non organic have a calf every year and as a result produce milk…just like any mammal. They are then served by a bull or by AI when they come back in season, which is about 6 weeks after calving. They then carry on milking until about 6 weeks before the calf is due, obviously decreasing yeild as time goes by. About 6 weeks before calf due cow goes ‘dry’ and has a little holiday from milking until she calves again. This is a totally natural cycle and the only difference between suckler cows (cows that are allowed to keep their calves until weaned naturally and are then reared for beef) and dairy cows is that dairy cows have their calves taken away at about 4 days old and hand reared so they can be milked for us to drink and be made into cheese and butter.
This is exactly the same for organic and non orgainic. The ony difference between the 2 is in pasture management and how medicines such as wormers and antibiotics can be used.
…oh and beef cattle in uK and Europe are not given hormones either. All milk and meat produced in Britain is safe…I know as I am involved!
LiF, So pleased to hear everything went off so well - it must have taken ages for you to type, but it was worth it as it was good to read all about your fantastic day - then you managed to come back down to earth with explanation about milk - thanks.
Looking forward to the pictures.
Stella xx
Thank you LiF xxxxx (See, I do listen, lol)
Sophie xx
Lif it sounds like you all had a fabulous time. Congratulations.
Polly x
Glad you had such a fantastic day LiF. You and your family so deserved it to be wonderful. Look forward to seeing pics.
Thanks also for the info about milk, and thanks Trip for pointing out that what I’d been told was incorrect. That’s one less thing to worry about - and I won’t assume the reflexologist necessarily knows what she is talking about now either!
Meanwhile, anyone got a good recipe for sea food pasta? I have prawns, mussels and scallops and lots of spiral pasta(fusilli) and chives growing in the garden, but haven’t a clue what to do for a sauce.
Aren’t you clever to grow pasta? lol…
I tend to make just a basic white sauce, with a bit of dill chopped up and mixed in, but seafood works just as well with a tomatoey/garlicy sauce too - I think a tomato base might suit the chives better, too. Mmmm, seafood pasta…
Sophie x
Oooops, really ought to sort out my punctuation. Though a nice little pasta tree would fit well in the garden. Do you use creme fraiche in the white sauce?
Thanks
Pam
I haven’t, but that would work well, if you have some. I tend to just do the old flour, butter, milk thing, but have used single cream in the past to replace some of the milk (not all, or it gets too rich). I don’t know any measurements - I tend to just lob a chunk of butter in the saucepan, and then add flour/liquid according to how much it looks like I’ll need!!!
The odd thing is, although I can make a perfectly good white sauce, I am absolutely useless at gravy… my mum just cannot understand it!