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Implausible great news re. Your flight refunds. You will get them. I just know it.
I meditate and I shout when I have to.
I like a medic that makes me laugh- always the best medicine.
Good Luck to all who are in hospital today.
Morning all
Good luck today Seaside with Herceptin - didn't realise it takes 6 hours!!! And Sonia with first T. Have I missed anyone else for today?
I'm happy to report that although I woke again in the night with the sweats briefly, my mad brain wasnt telling me that everyone hates me this time
hopefully that was a one off!
And so far on T I feel physically fine, no joint pains yet which I wasn't looking forward to as my knees are a bit rubbish at the best of times!
Ocean love the robin eggs, hope they both make it!
A little bit of further info on yesterday's port troubles. Apparently it is not unusual for some platelets to lodge in the line that runs under the skin from the port to the clavicle vein. Usually they can dislodge this with a few saline flushes and drips (which they tried so many of yesterday, I must be the best hydrated I have ever been!), but that didn't work.
The good news was that, like I said yesterday, instead of a complete blockage mine seems to have, for the moment at least, caused a valve so the chemo and other stuff can get into me just fine, but nothing can come the other way so they couldn't use it to get bloods out.
After the chemo went in yesterday they administered a syringe of what the x ray doc (who was lovely and made me laugh throughout my visit to him yesterday) referred to as "Mr Muscle industrial drain unblocker" to hopefully remove the platelet blockage altogether, as they are worried that otherwise it will build up more and next time it will be a 2 way problem.
Nurse tried to draw bloods again straight after, still no luck, but she said that it might just need a little longer to work and sent me home with fingers crossed that by my next cycle it will have resolved itself. I sure hope so!
I have also woken to some good news. Remember my holiday flights insurance saga?
Well, as I said before, all i need for the insurance is written proof from either Expedia (the online travel agent i used to book the 10 flights) or the 4 airlines involved, that all flights were cancelled/unused.
I've been trying to get these "no show letters" for about 10 weeks now with no luck. Have written letters and emails and made countless phone calls. But the airlines and Expedia just kept fobbing me off and throwing me back at the other party in an endless game of blame tennis....
Now i have TRIED getting stroppy with them before as I know that the squeaky wheel gets the oil in this world! But maybe I wasn't very convincing as it doesn't come naturally to me.
But this time Expedia made the mistake of calling me (after I had emailed them demanding an update) on a 'roid rage day this Monday....
I REALLY laid into the poor young Indian guy on the phone. Feel a tiny bit guilty now 
The result was he promised to get me all the paperwork sorted "within 48 hours". I yelled "I'll believe it when I see it!!!!" and hung up on him! I've never done anything like that before!!!
This morning....less than 48 hours later.... it looks like i have separate paperwork for each flight sat in my inbox
It does annoy me that they didn't do it sooner!!!! Kept saying they couldn't, only the airlines (which refused to do it) could. That was clearly a lie!!!
But they are here now. I need to stockpile steroids for next time i need to make a stroppy call!!!
Now i need to call my insurance company later today and hope my claim hasn't expired or something because it has taken so long! That would be sod's law, huh??
Happy Wednesday everybody, love to all xxx
Sarah
Hey lovelies,
Losing track if who on what treatment, going to have to start keeping a notepad next to me.
MBJ, power to you for going to the service. I think I would made my excuses given his illness, would have been too raw for me big wuss I am so I truly do salute you my love.
Good luck and positive thoughts and hugs to all who’ve already had or are going to have treatment this week. We’ve come so far and done so well all things considered.
Rosina eating fruit straight off the tree is one of my favourite things and one of the joys of our garden. Last year I couldn’t give away enough figs or persimmons,we had so many I didn’t know what to do with them. So far things are looking great crop wise. Two of the cherry tress that hardly had anything on them last year look like we’re set for s bumper harvest this year.
Tim has already bought a cherry pipper, obviously in a man’s world that’s an urgent purchase! He announced today that he should really get another one because according to the blurb in the packaging you can destone cherries one handed. Call me far too sensible or maybe it’s just the woman in me but one handed cherry pipping has to have been thought up by a man!
Anyway, at some point in the summer Tim will no doubt 
Some pics for you. Nettie you’ll be pleased to know that there are now two eggs in the robins nest. There’s a cuckoo somewhere in the neighbourhood so we’re really going to have to be vigilant. Honestly, all the trees we have around here and they ignored in favour of a bag manure !
Well my experience was not great on the time front Daisy! I was supposed to finish by noon to 1 ish and didn't get out of there till 4pm
If all goes smoothly and you don't need bloods first, you are looking at half hour cold cap each side and 1 hour infusion of T in the middle, plus usual admin time and 10 mins for cold cap to thaw out after switching it off.... so a lot quicker than FEC
Good news. Bloods were good. And the x ray showed that the port line is still in the right place and it took the dye in ok (basically it has formed a valve so stuff can go in but blood can't get out!) so I am going ahead with chemo and don't need a cannula. Phew.
MBJ funeral will be difficult I am sure 
hope you are ok!
Deano, good to hear from you! Even if you don't feel like you have much to add (or can't drag yourself away from Game of Thrones for too long ) please do give us a quick update from time to time on how you are getting on, otherwise we worry!
As for me, I'm thoroughly fed up my lovely port that I always sang the praises of has failed me today. They have been trying to get blood out of it for an hour and a half and it hasn't given up a drop.
They have tried to get blood the old fashioned way too and after many attempts they managed one test tube out of my useless veins but they need two.
Now I have to go for an x ray to see what's up with the port. It is apparently possible that they can still use it for the chemo (if we can ever get enough blood out of me to even find out if I CAN have chemo today!!) as it is accepting a saline flush ok. If not, that means a cannula for today (they will have a LOT of fun trying to get one of those in me!!! Anaesthetists hate me!!! ) and more surgery to repair the port.
Oh joy
It's going to be a looooong day!
