That naked dream is a common one isn’t it? Anybody know what it means. It’s either going to be something about feeling free and unhindered/uninhibited, or something about vulnerability I bet. I don’t think I’ve had it - I usually only get naked for Badaboom in dreams!
Oooh, a Hyacinth Bucket. Probably better off not talking, although she’s probably good for taking the mickey out of for a laugh.
Like our new attack spray name! Now all we need is one of those focus groups to test the idea on. I have various images in my head of just how we’d do that, and all I can say is I’m glad I’d be the emittor and not the receptor! lol.
I had to lie on my tummy and the table has two holes for the boobs to go into… or one in my case…
And you have to lie with your arms stretched straight up… my arm was screaming after the first five seconds…:o they use the back of one of the hands to inject the contast dye while the scan is happening and i was holding the panic button with the other…
I was fed into the machine feet first and i expected it to have a slight gap like the ct scan machine… but instead it compresses your botty / back… hence the sausage comment… lol
I am sure before the op it would have been easy peasy… but now my arm didn’t like it at all…
Thank you for your good wishes, much appreciated. I have just arrived back from school and i am totally shattered. Will chill for a while before i go out. I will sleep well tonight.
Theresa, i remember my mri way back in December and how painful it was for me too. There was no comfortable way to rest yr arm so just hurt all the way through it. The things we gels have to go through aye… I too have lymphoedema although has not been officially diagnosed, yet another bummer to deal with.
My new wig hasnt come yet and i did so fancy something different for tonight, never mind sure it will arrive soon. Arm is very swollen today but the heat does that, and feels tight. I have an appointment next week with a private mld practioner who can hopefully help me. NHS useless for this.
Hi all, took a photo of me posing by my Mr Cucumber plant today so thought I’d put it on here…sad I know but it is the first one I’ve ever grown, we harvested the first one today, delicious!
Having moaned about my wig etc I got stopped in the street today by a lady asking where I’d bought my scarf and how did I tie it like that! She is having chemo at Bath and has appt tomorrow exactly same time as me…how random. Still think I look like an ugly bug but at least I can tie a nifty scarf
Hope this chemo goes okay Gen and the SE are manageable, mouthwash at the ready. Hope your arms not too painful Theresa, and not too long a wait for your results. Sal and Helen - the LGFB days as Mary says are definitely for everyone, I was told it’s best to go when you’re well into or recovering from treatment so I would go for it, I just don’t know when I’m going to have good days so still haven’t registered.
Carole, according to my dream book being naked does indeed mean “feeling vulnerable or exposed and feeling you may be unable to maintain your defences against the outside world” - how spooky is that?
I have a weird loo dream where I’m desperate to go but the only loo available is so disgustingly filthy I can’t bring myself to use it. I’d love to know what that means. Maybe it just means I need a wee and my brain is telling me not to wet the bed!!
I also get the exam dream where I’m about to sit an exam I had no idea I was meant to be doing and haven’t revised for. Or a variation on the theme that I’m about to go onstage on a play and I don’t know any of my lines.
Oh my mind is a murky old place.
Good to put a face to the name Di, and liking the sound of the new fragrance Ros. We’ll give SJP a run for her money!!
I’m going to investigate this LGFB business further. I want freebies and I’ll travel to get em!!
I get the exam dream too. I also get a disgusting dream where I think I have a hair in my mouth so I fish it out, as you do, but it keeps coming up from my stomach and it drags up stuff that I will not give you nightmares about by describing. I can feel it as I type it’s so real in the dream. Yuckity Yuck. I haven’t a clue what it’s about except maybe some kind of stress thing. I’ve had that one where your teeth fall out which I think is stress related too.
Hey, just booked an LGFB for myself in August. Two weeks after last injection, so that’ll give me a lift. Like you Gen, have freebies, will travel!
Miserable weather here today, such a contrast to yesterday’s brilliant sunshine. Have felt a bit weary after yesterday’s excitement so have been taking it very easy.
Good luck with the last dose tomorrow Mary, hope the Hickman behaves itself. Only two weeks more to go and I’ll be having my last Tax as well, can’t believe I’m nearly done.
Gardening note:
Been trying to remember who was talking about getting into veg gardening for the first time, but can’t find it now - its worth knowing that the seeds on sale in the garden centres/supermarkets etc are actually developed for commercial growing purposes, hence you get those massive gluts with all the runner beans etc ready at once - because that’s what’s needed for mass harvesting purposes. You can, however, still get old fashioned varities, that give cropping over a longer period, which is much more useful for domestic purposes. I’ve had good results with stuff from The Real Seed Catalogue (just google it) - eg the outdoor cucumbers were trouble free and tasted amazing.
Roll on next season when I can get back to growing stuff, instead of having to rely on shops!
Rx
Theresa…I thought MRIs where simple…in and out…obviously not ouch!
Di nice to see your picture again even if its different this time. Wow can’t get over how large your plant is…almost got a life of its own…
I have the teeth dream too…they start falling out and crumbling. I’ve also scared OH to death, by jumping out of bed in the early hours and beating the mattress to get rid of all the creepy crawlies!!! uggg! it was a dream…
Has anyone had a haematoma in the breast area? I have a 3/4inch strip of hard tissue, leading up from my axillary scar to the top of my breast.It is quite tender now and feels thick even though looking at it it isn’t. Had it for 2weeks plus. But I also wondered if it could be some radiation residue, from my first op…and thats turned the tissue hard!! Anyway going to see Plastic surgeon on Friday…
Oh I finally got my bone scan appointment through for tomorrow as well…think its a simple straight forward process…x-raying my arm no less…
helenxx
ps …just crossed Rosie…it was me re the growing of veg for the first time.
Take it easy there Rosie. Thanks for the heads up on the seed front. I’ll definitely google that.
Helen, only thing I can think is that they do say rads can shrink your boob and make it harder. So it’s possible that’s what it is. Is your bone scan for density or something?
I had one of those night terror things once. Terrible at the time, but an amazing experience. I was in bed and I’m pretty sure I was awake, but probably wasn’t. I could hear somebody (thought it was OH) opening and closing cupboards in the kitchen. This went on to the point that I was starting to wonder what was actually going on. Then the somebody started walking through to the stairs, then came up them. I was totally frozen in bed, and “knew” it was something terrible. I couldn’t move. Still certain I was awake. The somebody kept coming up the stairs, up, up, nearly at the bedroom door. I was absolutely terrified and unable to move. I think I shut my eyes because next thing I looked at the edge of the bed and there was a dark shape standing there. Suddenly I could move and felt myself grunt out loudly, and there was this massive whoosh, whooshing, thump, thumping noise. Almost immediately I realised I had had a dream of some wierd type. The whooshing and thumping was my heart and the blood surging round in total panic. Honest, it sounded like the room was full of this noise. Bizarrely, I’d been reading a couple of days before about night terrors, and as my heart calmed down I knew that’s what I’d just had. Never had it again.
A terrifying dream Carole…its funny how things during the day can become real menacing in the dark…
Yes its a bone density scan …routine because I’m on arimidex now and they just want a picture of what my old bones are like now, to compare further down the line…
I’ve had a couple of night terrors too. The first time I was lying in bed and suddenly this dark figure appeared in the doorway, I just knew it was evil and I could feel it pulling me towards it across the bed. I could feel the sheets sliding under my body as it moved across the bed, but I was paralysed.
Then the phone rang and I snapped out of it. Utterly terrifying. The second time was something similar, but this time there was no pulling there was just this evil thing in the doorway. Apparently it’s common to feel it’s sitting on your chest as well and that you can’t breathe.
It’s to do with the brain waking up but the usual messages sent to the body to wake up too are delayed hence you are unable to move. Quite why the hallucinations should be so horrific is odd though, I mean why couldn’t I hallucinate George Clooney in my bedroom giving me the old come hither?!
I had a dream once that was like something out of a horror film… :o
We were on holiday in the north of scotland and so it basically just didn’t go dark at night and the bedroom curtains were light yellow - to be honest the room was light no matter the time of day or night…
So i made myself a makeshift eyemask as i just couldn’t sleep…
Anyway in the dream i woke up, and took the eyemask off my eyes… and there was the dark shape of a man standing over the otherside of the room…! :o I was so horrified that I woke up… lay there trembling for a few minutes then plucked up courage to take off the eyemask… and the man was there again - but closer!!! :o And i woke up… This time i was so scared… and i lay there for ages before i dared take off the eyemask - and this time the room was empty…
Honestly i have never been so scared in my life… The cottage was an old worker’s cottage that would have been used by estate worker’s or whatever… and miles from anyone…
yes, teeth crumbling and falling out - and tongue being big and swollen…my mind must be related to yours then gen!! Rosie - you take care, its early yet after your tax…feel odd about mine tomorrow - not sure…excited, dreading it being put off…alsorts…and have forgotten to drink plenty today and its nearly 7pm!!! gggrrrrr…aaahhhhh…mary x
Just chug a couple of pints of water in this evening and you’ll be fine Mary.
I had that wake up, no now I’ve woken up, nope NOW I’ve woken up, a few times. Really wierd. You really think you’re awake then you realise something’s not quite right about the room. Feels a bit like groundhog day.
Yes, why can’t it be somebody too cute for words! No fair. Must give my dream mind a good talking to.
Now this is weird…I frequently have the crumbling teeth dream, just thought it was because I didn’t like the dentist, but I do have good strong teeth.
Strangest dream I remember was being in a jungle surrounded by cannibals who wanted to put me in the huge cooking pot but then a group of old school mates appeared and I managed to persuade the chief to one of them as she had big tasty corned beef legs…hmmm self preservation or what…
Get glugging Mary, hope it all goes ok for you.Wow am jealous of you cucumber plant Di, mine are a bit slow this year.
Hope all you chemo babes are doing ok and your arm feels a lot better now Theresa.
Sal, the school trip is being run by the drama and arts dept so they doing The Globe and The Tate Modern as well as other bits and bobs and Hairspray is such a good musical to go and see, just wish it was me !
The only twice I’ve had night terrors I was not in my own home. The last was while indoor camping when I felt the building was surrounded by something evil that was trying to get in.
Happy anniversary, Linda, hope you have a good evening. You too, Sal. Not much notice for your bone scan, Helen!
I too prefer to do my crying in private where I don’t have to feel responsible for the effect on anyone else, nor apologise for it. But, Ros, I too have found living on my own tough at times since dx. Friends are great (glad you had a visit from just such a friend, Gennie) but there is a limit to how much support they can give.
Sorry to hear the MRI was so painful, Theresa. Like everyone else, I wouldn’t have expected that. Do hope you get a good result and soon! Last chemo tomorrow, Mary, so hope that milestone will pass without too many SEs. Hope you have a smooth ride with this one, Gennie.
Great photo, Di. Perhaps I should find one of me. Problem is, most photos that are taken of me I am wearing medieval kit as they are the only times I don’t mind posing for them!
Good you’ve signed up for the LGFB, Carole. I was encouraged to do so at the support centre and they knew I was not having chemo. The problem is that the waiting list is so long at my hospital.
I think the Globe is wonderful, Sandra. A few years ago I made some bits of costume trim for some of their “original practices” productions.
