Rest up Gen…blow work for the moment…a good nosh, a good sleep, and a decent read…bliss…
Think you are beginning a new business Sandra…Marks and Sparks started small. You will have to bring some of your lovely cakes to the bunkhouse…lurvve ginger cake and lovely sticky parkin…only seem to eat that on bonfire night!!!
ONE TO GO SAL!!! whoopeeee…get all your celebration stuff ready…choccies, cake, ice-cream and a drinky or three!!
How far are you through your chemo Linda?
Lizzie hope your Edinburgh trip was a good one and hope you are feeling better in yourself too!
You lot sound really intellectual - my recent reads have been Jack Higgins and Ian Rankin, but I tend to fall asleep after 2 pages so a book takes rather a long time to finish. Should I be ashamed too to admit that I’ve read and thoroughly enjoyed all the Harry Potter books ?
Pharmacy made a total **ck-up this morning with the chemo delivery to the nurses so everyone was running 2 hours late - it all racked up on the car park meters and most of us ended up paying £4 as we were there for nearly 4 hours - seriously considering asking for a rebate but haven’t got a receipt so no chance.
Strangely enough have had more energy since I got home than for 3 days but I know it’s only a false dawn.(I’ll take Carole’s warning and slob out for the next few days )
Welcome to our newbies, and good luck to those being sorted tomorrow - Ros.
Sorry you had such a long day Ros. The parking charges etc soon add up don’t they? I’ll have done about 700+ miles when I finish tomorrow, coupled with £1 a day for the car park. I don’t want to do the maths!! Don’t be ashamed of reading anything. I know a couple of people who’ve read all the Harry Potters. When I’m on holiday I tend to go for something that I can just whizz through without using too much brain power.
Yes Carole, the No 1 was televised and very good it was too. They captured the spirit of the book exactly. I think they’re making a second series, but the director, Anthony Minghella, died last year and I hope they can maintain what they had for the first series.
That sounds like fun reading Eliza! lol. I got half way through The Resurrectionist recently (about C19th body snatchers), but it was just too dismal and I wasn’t feeling at my best, so I gave up half way through. Who are you producing a paper for?
I loved the Harry Potter books. In fact Maddie & I went out early on the day the final one came out so we could buy it on the day. Actually we bought 2 copies because DH and I both wanted to read it and weren’t prepared to wait for the other to finish it!
I really enjoyed the No.1 Ladies series. I’ve read all of the books and I think they are great. DH was offered a job in Botswana when Maddie was a baby. We ummed and aahed, I was up for it but he’s too risk averse to do anything daring like that so we didn’t go. I sometimes wonder what if…
Has anyone else read the Inkheart trilogy by Cornelia Funke?Its meant to be for kids but its a cracking good read. Helen your taste in books is exactly the same as mine[there arent many of us on here]May I recommend Marion Zimmer Bradleys ‘Darkover’ series and my all time favourite fantasy read-Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kaye.When we meet we could incorporate a book swap session where we could all bring a couple we have enjoyed and pass hem on.I have been away for a couple of days [marking]and will be very busy for a few weeks but will keep checking in every now and again.Take care now.
Love Valxx
I too enjoyed the No 1 Ladies series and read the last one in rads waiting rooms (when I wasn’t chatting!). Not read the Inkheart trilogy, I’ll have to be on the lookout for that.
I’m presenting the paper at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds next month, in a session on medieval textiles. It is on dress detail in the alabaster monuments in the church at Harewood. I really need to get it written in the next week …
Hi Val…I’ve read the first of the Ink heart books…but don’t know what the others are called. Will look those authors up! thanks! Val Have you read the ‘twilight’ series by Stephanie Meyers…good stuff!!Very well written.There are a lot of teen books that overlap into adult books. Good idea a book swap!!
Eliza …Harewood house and grounds are lovely. I live near Leeds… sounds an interesting paper!! I bet it was good to research…all the wonderful textiles they used…
Hi girls and welcome Rose (one of my all time favorite songs) and Linda.
Got the oldest staying with us at the moment, she split with her long term boyfriend of eight yrs on Sunday So if I go a bit quiet, its because I’m drying up tears.
I’m afraid I’m not much of a reader myself but if I do pick up a book its usually of the true crime variety. I’m always intrigued as to what makes a human being so evil.
However right in the middle of coming of my happy pills, I’m reading Next To You by Gloria Hunniford. Not very wise I know! It’s making me realize even more, live life to the full but also if you enjoy something then don’t deny yourself. I never knew that at first dx Caron Keating had a low grade (1) 12mm tumour. No nodes and was just given rads. She did however opt out of taking Tamoxifen. (Hmm makes you wonder) Anyway, after dx, she gave up coffee, carbonated drinks, red meat, chicken, processed foods, dairy produce, only ate organic and took all kinds of vitamins and still the cancer returned. Not trying to put a downer on things, just trying to say why live like a monk, if you know what I mean?
Last one tomorrow Sal. YIPPEY EYE HEY!!! I bet your exhausted by now, what with all that travelling. Have you got celebrations planned. I’ll raise a glass to you at the weekend when I’m not in work. I have yet another works medical on Thursday, anyone would think I flew rockets to the moon for a living, the way they are scrutinising my health. lol
Ros, hope your feeling alright and all the other chemo chicks. Gen, Carole take it easy.
Helen, how are you healing? You haven’t said for a while. How’s the movement in your arm?
Well I loved all the Harry Potter books too, such good stories, my eldest just finished all the Twilight books , am lucky that both my girls love to read ,they have always got books on the go and we love bookshops… they also love gingerbread… both are very nice but the traditional dark sticky one got the best in show rosette.
Yup, don’t worry I will bring a selection of homebaked goodies to the bunkhouse, don’t want to think too big at the mo or would have to register my kitchen as a food premise etc etc. Also made some choc chip cookies today, tasted great but didn’t have the wow factor in looks.Planning on trying out the bara brith tomorrow and the homemade custard creams.Busy busy, and your last rads Sal, whoopity whoop ! Gosh that has gone by in a flash, hope you don’t feel down when you finish but are skipping out of there with a huge smile on your face, onwards and upwards !
I’m another of the sword-and-sorcery fans, with a particular fondness for Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels, but can’t be doing with horror/vampire stuff - I’ve only read one Anne Rice book (lent by a friend) and it gave me nightmares for a week… okay, I’m a wimp!
Talking of vampires - got the delights of blood tests tomorrow, plus appt with the Onc which I think includes rads planning this time. Then penultimate Tax on Thursday, assuming the bloods are behaving themselves - and then the end is in sight, yee hah!
I’m sorry to say that I’ve never been in the house, Helen! I’ve been to the church a few times, including when I was up on holiday last month. I took nearly 200 photos of the monuments last time! I’m now working through them as I make notes and trying to decide which ones to use. They are so intricately carved; the detail is amazing in places. Yes, the research has been good to do and somehow seeing the faces on the monuments makes them “real” to me as people.
The Congress is using one of the University sites out near the ring road and I’ll be staying in one of the student flats. I’m also running a workshop on medieval braiding one evening, so I should be kept rather busy!
I realised that teen and adult books overlap when I found that my niece and I enjoyed each other’s books.
Yes, Jane, I think this has all brought home to me that life is for living and while I may try to live healthily I also want to live happily.
Right, I’m off to bed now. Goodnight all and I hope those who are feeling tired have a good rest tonight. Hope your onc appointment goes well, Rosie.
Morning, Rose here and Rocky is my horse! Looks a little like a rocking horse from childhood! White with black spots, white mane and tail. Very solid and reliable. Always got away from the baddies in time during childhood!
Rose x
Go get 'em Sal! Last one. Mule Rides Through! Did the Green & Blacks make it to today?
Rocky, good name!
Theresa, did you say you were doing the MRI today? I have Wednesday in my head for some reason.
I think Jane, the Caron Keating story just highlights how fickle this darn thing is. Best you can do is take the decisions that seem right at the time and then keep your fingers crossed, and I completely agree that you need to live life while doing it.
When i was first diagnosed, i got any books i could find on people with bc from library and read blogs on internet. Couldnt find The Caron Keating one but read a book by a journalist called Dina Abrinovitch. When i had read it, i googled her and found she had died two years ago. I was really upset, as although her cancer had spread at end of book she was talking about managing it with different chemo combos. Also read a book by Meredith Norton - this book is really worth a read as she has a reallly quirky sense of humour, oh and she is still alive.
She had IBC which was misdiagnosed by French doctors as mastitus and when she when back to her native U.S. the doctors werent hopeful and did not give her a great chance of survival. Again, the fact she is alive, shows how no one really understands how this disease works.
My final chemo was last Tuesday. I just have to get through the SE’s which really are the pits, my taste buds are just so bad at moment (bottom of hamsters cage) and still aching from head to toe. Taxotere is the culprit, I know its lethal but its doing it’s job so i’ll put up with it.
OH home today because of tube strike and oldest has to have teeth out this afternoon for braces. Wednesday is Pizza night in our house but looks like just OH and youngest will be partaking.
Morning all…I’m getting up later and later this week…my eyes open and I think yep I’ll get up…then I fall straight back asleep again…haven,t done that for weeks! Could be one of the se of Arimidex I guess…maybe the aches too! But I’ll give it a bit longer before I ‘blame’ the tablets.
Jane as regards my arm…as long as I remember to do excercises…which I don’t… then its not too bad…I have the normal limited stretch and constant achey thing but not bad. My ‘tummy boob’ has a very hard 3in area…almost like a piece of metal tubing has been placed there. Its lumpy in places still but not bad. Its funny about the ‘non feeling’ both there and in my tummy…I can feel the push but not the touch so to speak. I have some vague touch feelings in my tummy, some of which will come back I’m sure.
Jane did you get Gwyneth to the clinic??
Hi Linda great that you have finished chemo…and can start recovering from the rubbish se. and begin to get your life back on track.
Morning Rose, love the idea of a rocking horse…well at least the description of one…wouldn’t get very far if it was real lol hehehe
Hi Theresa…regards reading…its that lack of concentration thing…I find I’m up and down and can’t concentrate for long on anything! Have you got your MRI today ?
Not heard from Nikki Carole…hope she is ok. You are right, live life as it comes…
Hi Di hope all is still well with you.
Lizzie hope you enjoyed Edinburgh.
SAl …cook babe cook…last one… hats thrown in the air, set em up Joe…unlimited access…er yet again!!!
{{gentle hugs }} to those having chemo…or hangovers. No more rads chicks after today…thats a bit of history in the stormriders tale!
Just back from the hospital… It was the ultrasound on my neck and chin today… and the good news is - it was just my big fat chin wanting a moment of fame…
The ultrasound lady was really good and told me then and there…
I’m not sure if I have mentioned my ears have been playing up the last month or so… it feels abit like when your ears feel blocked after being on a plane or swimming… and they make a popping noise sometimes…
Anyway I also told her about that… and apparantly it is a long term side effect of the Docetaxol… she said it might get better in a year or so but i might be stuck with it… It makes sense as i already know i have the breathlessness and tingling feeling in my hands from the docetaxol…
