Two days back at the 'chalk’face and I’m on the kna**ered bench again. Mind you, I did have the littlest people, all morning, today - reception and nursery. I’m not used to answering to people below knee height!
For some reason my nails are all disintegrating. Anyone else had this as a SE of Ta’poxy’fen and/or Zola’pest’?? (I didn’t have chemo, so it can’t be that - Oh, now I have to go back to the guilty bench!) Or is it completely unrelated? eg colder weather?
Are there any alligators left to eat our quilt (hahahaha - shows how tired I am: I mean Guilt!!)? We seem to havve consumed an awful lot of alliburgers recently with all these bonfires and parties.
Brilliant Ali, halfway (another excuse for a party???)
Cackles that’s really such a lovely thing to say (bit teary now too), doesn’t take much to set me off!!
No JCJ not had any problems with nails, get off that guilty bench immediately !
Had lunch with an “esteemed” Benchlander today, had a lovely time, tongues did not stop wagging! Only one problem a hair appeared suddenly in “super, duper” lady’s lunch…did it come from me ???
hahaha xx
Waiter, waiter there’s a hair in my pasta… that’s not a hare madam it’s a rabbit, boom boom, tish!
Alas it’s true! There we were chatting away munching our lunch when - shock horror - a hair in my pasta! Lovely to spend time with the All Scotland Synchro Flush Team again - ah yes, we have it to a fine art.
Excellent news Ali, soon it’ll all be over, huzzah. Definitiely party time again… we haven’t had one for five minutes after all.
Lovely post Cackles, always welcome in the Land of the Bench, or in Cat’s Kirk! Spurtles R Us.
JCJ, no idea about the nails, though mine are still quite ‘soft’ and breaky, so maybe the Tam does not help? Don’t have Zola so can’t comment on that. Can you put some nail varnish on to act as glue, or is that verbotten at the chalk-face?
Right, off to find some hair free tea… and no, it was not Katy’s hair… hers is far too neat and tidy to fly out into someone’s lunch.
Half way party, yay! Except I’m still shattered from the woodie/Benchie party at the weekend…asked the rads lady about my ‘tight’ armpit, she says it’s the effect the rads have on your flesh, or as my OH said “they’ve cooked your armpit darling”… Mmmm…
My nails are soft, bendy and generally not what they used to be too, they could do with three weeks in Tuscany next summer. Obviously I’d have to go with them, and obviously it doesn’t have to be Tuscany…Lake Garda would do just as well…
Oh crikey here comes my bed time hot flush, excuse me while I go stand by an open window…
Ladies I think there is something a bit odd going on over the pond tonite… can’t get my head round the story running on CNN so turning to BBC Newschannel more in hope than expectation.
Rita (support group of one) and self decided to open a bottle of fizzy glitterberry juice to sustain us, but we’re both on the Confused Bench until Paxo appears again…
Oh my Ali, your armpit is cooking it’s only half baked though !
grumpy hope the FIZZY glitterberry juice managed to sustain you throughout the night!
On the “ouchy” bench today, too much fun yesterday, really shouldn’t do those cartwheels xx
Cartwheels katy!!! It’s no wonder you’re on the “ouchy” bench - I’d be in A&E -(sorry, Dr Nephew - ME)!!
I just laughed out loud driving home from work - nearly crashed the car. Had the radio on and the heater. Hot flush descends - doesn’t usually happen in the car/at that time - took me by surprise. Then I realised the song that was playing was “This girl’s on fire” by ??? That’s my new theme tune - tempted to change my username to that too!
Lake Garda, Ali, one of my favourite places. we went to Malcesine almost exactly 2 years ago. 50th birthday pressie from OH, but he won’t fly so went with DD. Amazing!
Just started new Relon brand, so have been flushing frequently today in between being freezing cold! Not a good mix.
I think the next party JCJ you can take centre stage with your song, we can still dance around you with our 40 cardis, it’ll be such fun, in fact we don’t need a party, you can start anytime!! xx
Oh no no no no no! Katy - you definitely don’t want me to sing. I can mime to the original and join in the dance of the 40 fleeces instead!
I start my Generics Tapoxyfen tonight - 4th different brand so far - not bad in 7 months!! - so let’s see How much “This Girl’s on Fire” for the next 28 days!! (WHY do the pharmacists waste time taking 2 tablets out of each pack - such cheapskates!!)
What? Taking two out of the pack? Madness. I always get a full 30 pack, well actually two full thirty packs cos my GP does two months at a time. It’ll be your GPs fault - they do the prescription and s/he must be saying ‘send 28’ rather than ‘send 30’ so the pharmacist has to comply. For me it’s a pain as all my other things to counteract side effects come in multiples of 28… they just need to get the packs standardised to 28 or 30 days…
Yes, RC, it is the prescription that says Tamoxifen 20mg x 28. Some poor devil must get a pack with all the tiny strips of 2 in! Once, when I picked my prescription a bit early, they didn’t bother to cut off the 2, so I felt like I got a bargain - even though I don’t pay for them anyway! How sad am I??
Wow, I didn’t know they took out tablets??? Crazy or what, I also get the 30, 2 months prescription at a time. I just get any kind chemist has so have had Generics, APS and Wockhardt, now Relon, is there another?
I’m sure I said at one point on here that when I was in the primary school choir, I was also told to mime?? I was really upset cause I thought that I COULD sing ! So I was the mimer in the front row…
Phonecall from nurse today flu jab next week xx
My OH takes blood pressure medicine, and last month’s batch WAS the one with all the twos in. We laughed when, instead of the usual “sheets” of tablets, he got a box of little scraps!
Ali, you’re on the homeward slide of the cooking now! Hooray!! My shoulder’s still a bit stiff after six months–I was surprised at the continuing SEs of radiotherapy–it has also given me arthritis in the neck. Make sure you do your exercises–they did seem to help me, and when I slacked off for awhile, I noticed a difference.
Perhaps all this dancing around with cardies is what’s making you all so warm. Running cold water on my wrists used to help. I did the “early menopause” thing years ago, so it’s all a rather dim memory, now, but I do remember that, and sleeping without any heating. I used to have to go into the spare bedroom, 'cause even the heat from my OH was unbearable.
I’ll be back to the woods now, just popped over to say hello, and see how you’d all recovered from the party. The JM’s always open if you want to escape the aligators for the evening.
Sit down girls, you’re going to be jealous…my surgery issues one month repeat prescriptions, so guess how many I get???
TWO packs of 30.
It all started when I picked my first repeat prescription up, and noticed it said 10mg, even though the first packet I picked up in the hospital prescribed by my onc had been 20mg. Turns out onc had written to my dr asking him to put the Tam on repeat, but hadn’t specified a dose…so they guessed. Fills you with confidence doesn’t it? But at least I noticed, and I only have to nip to the chemist every sixty days
And they (not me!!) say it’s the Scots that are tight (as in fisted, not tipsy - that’s a completely different story! :))??
I’ve had Teva - but I think I read on here that that’s who now owns APS - packaging different but tablets look the same.
I was told I sing flat, at the tender age of 10, and asked NOT to sing in whole (Primary) school ‘choir’. Scarred for life! Also, a few years later, my piano teacher gave up on me when I couldn’t sing ANY note he played. I think he thought I was doing it deliberately.
Very awkward when they ask me to teach music at school when I’m covering classes - which happens quite a lot, because the teachers don’t like teaching it either, and there’s no marking!! I also get asked to do RE and PE. Perfect subjects for a tone-deaf, over-weight athiest?? It’s a good job I DO have a sense of humour!
We can have a silent choir all of our own, or even better (because I do like to sing, when I’m on my own in the house!) an alternative note choir… What was that buzz word from a few years back? Tunally challenged? Differently Tunal…?
I have a theory - based on conversations with other people who also sing nowadays - that those of us (I was one too) told not to sing in primary school were actually baby altos… it’s not that we couldn’t sing but that the music was pitched too high. Nowadays of course it’s all pitched v-e-r-y low. From time to time I sing alto in the combined churches choirs - good fun if decidedly challenging as I have a tendency to drift into the melody line if I already know the piece!!
Anyway ladies, if you read the teeny weeny print, it says Tamoxifen can affect your singing voice… so there you go, it will transform us all so we have the voices of angels… (in my dreams)
Tee hee, alto eh? There’s hope for me yet then! I used to do the readings in church, because the nuns said that although I wasn’t to sing my speaking voice was lovely. Awwwwww. They spent hours teaching me to say "love " with an upwards inflection (?) rather than “luv”, which is the South Derbyshire way. So now I sound ridiculously posh when I say “love”! Mind you the reading was “And God so loved the world…” so I suppose they had a point, an eight year old with gappy teeth, bad hair and skinny legs telling the congregation “God luvs yer” wasn’t what they had in mind…
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Once, when I picked my prescription a bit early, they didn’t bother to cut off the 2, so I felt like I got a bargain - even though I don’t pay for them anyway! How sad am I?? 
! So I was the mimer in the front row…