AAAAAGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!
So, discussing treatment etc with hair dresser (yes - a very exciting minor hair trim!!!) and she says ‘well - if its in your lungs - just give up smoking and it will fix it’. If she was not armed with scissors - i would have had a go - but she was, so i calmly explained it was breast cancer in my lungs and ive never ever ever ever smoked at all!!!
Phew - feel better for mad type!!!
Sadie Xx Xx
good GREEEEEEF!! How Higorant can some people be??? As if smoking is the only cause of lung ca, and as if quitting once you have it is going to make everything OK… AND… as if she had the RIGHT!!!
Good to be able to let the storm out after the calm, isn’t it?!
My GP when she started at the practice, meeting me 5 weeks after my mastectomy for 7.5cm of Intermediate DCIS said and I quote " but thats not really cancer is it"!!!
God Sadie I would have planted her!! maybe time to find a new hairdresser !
I think she would have got a crash course in the progress of BC if it’d been me!
But then, sounds like she’d need an awful lot of educating…
Unbelievable!! I would definitely NOT be returning to that hairdresser Sadie. Just cannot believe how ignorant people can be in this day and age - even if it were smoking related lung cancer, merely ‘giving up smoking’ wouldn’t fix it!! Think you deserve a medal for keeping as calm as you did
Lesley xx
Sadie, i hope you don’t smoke, there are lots of highly flammable materials in hairdressers’ salons… oh, to be a dragon for a day.
So, if my dad had had enough hair to need a trim, and gone to her and not an oncologist, he’d still be alive today?? i think not. Sheesh, who is she kidding? Wait, is she a smoker herself by any chance?
Hi all - a little calmer today!! I really think she meant it in a ‘light hearted’ joking way - but was just sooooooooo wrong! I think im looking for a new hair dresser though as i dont think i can be responsible for my actions if the advice is repeated. She also added that she is sure the Drs can cure me and i must stay positive blah blah blah!!
But that was all yesterday…today no ones got it so wrong…yet!!!
Hugs to all!
Sadie Xx Xx
If 1 more person says “only two more Chemo to go” i’m going to stick a very sharp object into them and poision them and see how they like it!!!
sorry about rant, just had sister-in-law quiz me
Can’t believe nobody’s had any silly comments recently, so bumping this thread up so it doesn’t drop off.
Any new posters might want to take a look and either laugh or have their jaws drop at the astoundingly insensitive things people have said.
A friend of mine has recently had an op for an ovarian cyst that turned out to be cancerous, but it was (relatively) good news in being caught very early. So she posted something to that effect on her facebook status. Someone responded that she’d known someone who had it, and they died. REALLY insensitive, but completely typical of the person who posted. So me and my friend had a bloomin’ good laugh about it - it’s the only thing to do, really.
my sister in law = " its all over with now your hair is starting to grow back" OH gave her a unrepeatable answer bless him ,
Not heard from the in-laws since they visited me in hospital the day after my MX ;which was on the 19th). My hubby rang them today & they assumed I’d be back at work soon…so here I am, still with my drain, taking a deep breath and counting to ten. They could have visited earlier in the week when they were out for a trip to buy their cat a fountain (don’t ask) but didn’t bother. Great…I rank lower than the cat…
Twinky
Hi Twinky
You said don’t ask but…what the heck is a cat fountain?
I feel my moggie is missing out now if he hasn’t got a fountain!!
Lemoncake
x
I think it’s some sort of drinking water thing…and I’m still seething! Had an op last year to have a cyst removed from my left ovary, polyp from my uterus & a bit of a scrape of the old womb lining so was home for a couple of weeks unable to drive. Was on my own for a fair bit of that time as hubby works away during the week…did they ring or even visit…NO…so shouldn’t really be surprised at their lack of concern now. What makes it worse is that Father-in-law had a bowel op before Xmas with a large polyp removed and was told a couple of weeks ago that there were signs of early cancer in the tissue. I drove straight up to see them when I got the news, with flowers for mum-in-law & cakes & biscuits to have with tea & to give him a big hug. Ended up sitting on their doorstep for 2 hours because they’d gone out & had to leave the goodies round the side of the house & push a note through the door as I had to drive back to the hospital for my pre-op assessment. No they didn’t call to thank me. I rang them later £ they said they’d enjoyed the biscuits & cake…is it just me? Deep breath again…1…2…3…
Twinky
Can you drown an adult in a cat-fountain? Can you make it look like an accident?
Oh Hymil…thank you for making me laugh out loud x
Twinky I don’t mean to be Catty but if they buy cat fountains you are better off without them!!!’ when you find out what it is let us all know!!!
Hold on in there
Hugs
Cackles
Sensible people buy chocolate fountains. If I ever win the lottery…
A CHAMPAGNE fountain …thats what I’d buy
I was intrigued and so have just Googled cat fountains.
Twinky - don’t get upset about derranged people, they can’t help it!
Dx
PS Most of them look like a cross between a foot spa and a bidet!