October 2017 Chemo Starters

[Ali49]

Ladies habe you tried insurancewith? They are very good x

Sorry to hear rads were cancelled today but hope you are all doing ok with it.

I am doing well and had my drain removed today. The most discomfort i have is under my arm and on the inside of my upper arm. The nurse said ot is my nerve endings waking up!

Sam i dont get my results til next Wrdnesday andby then i know i will be nervous. I hope you are recovering well and i will say a prayer for good results for you tomorrow xx

Jencat i hope the SE's are being k8nd to you thos LAST time around xx

[Jamesy46]

Oh no ! I hope you can get sorted , some of the ones I did were 400 quid plus for Mexico and I got it for 36 I couldn’t believe it , and some wouldn’t even insure me , ridiculous x

[buddyfan]

Tried them, worse results. OH research found AllClear the cheapest but we've got to check policy.

[Jamesy46]

Hiya buddy fan just jumping over from Jan thread o used these yesterday http://medicaltravelcompared.co.uk/
I know we all have different medical needs but I got great deals for a cruise and a Mexico trip at Xmas I got it off the forum x

[buddyfan]

OH has been researching travel insurance for trip to Seychelles. Ranged from £450-£1000. 😪🏖😪🏝😪

[Shi]

Meesh, great news your scalp is on the mend 😘😘Sam and mishy big ❤️❤️❤️To you both and Ali for when you have your meeting too. Keep positive thoughts all of you please, shut the door on 💩 and throw away the key to that door, we are not visiting there again, we are through the door to the future and pretty things ahead 😁😁 bit of beautiful south - you keep it all in on the jukebox called for dj Karana if you can please do the honours 😘😘thank you 💕💕✨✨shi xx

[Mishy18]

Hi ladies hope you are feeling good today sam 💖 its horrible worrying over results like buddy said and even though im finished treatments i still worry with certain things gor my follow up with bc surgeon last tine i saw her was may after surgery with path results feeling nervous for tomorrow as i don't know what will be discussed, probably mammo breast awareness etc
Still not back at work gp has signed me off yesterday for further 2 month with a note about amended hours on return i could if i want get back sooner if i feel better sooner i bloody hope so, i def want to get back then or i never will!!! At moment my biggest problem is my post treatment fatigue and a massive arthritis flare up which i wasn't expecting hoping i will feel better soon, i hope to stay part time so u can help out with childcare when my daughter goes back after her maternity leave a couple of days per week if i could afford it i would pack in work and do it full time 😊😊 but real life calls just really frustrated with my stupid body for letting me down and not being back to normal yet!!! If i ever was 😨

[Meesh73]

Sam, I think Buddyfan is right. I hope that you get good news, we're all here for you no matter what that news is! 

Dermatology appointment was quick, they had a look and said it is still a tiny bit fkakey and to use the lotion and shampoo they gave me previously but I don't need to wash my hair every day 😂 I think it seems to be clearing up on its own so I might see if it does, if not I'll go back to using the stuff they gave me. 

[buddyfan]

Sam, I think we all have scanxiety, but that doesn't make it any better for you. You will get through this step and we're all here supporting you. 🤗❤🤗

[Sam34]

Woke up crying absolutely petrified about results tomorrow 😢 just hoping for good news 🙏🏻 and chemo has killed it all whether it’s spread to more lymph nodes then they thought ( ultrasound said 1 )

[Meesh73]

Morning ladies! Our 🚂 has been cancelled due to snow, so all rads ladies will need to climb aboard the replacement sledges that 🚂👩‍✈️has put on for us! It's quite crowded now with Runnerbean, Karen, Shi, Chaffinch, Rach and Sue as there's quite a few of us! Hope everyone gets to appts safely.

Ali, Sam, Cassie, Jencat hope your recoveries from ops and chemo are going well and you can stay inside in the warm.

Jellytot, Ruth and Buddyfan hope you're doing ok and can stay in the warm too!

[Meesh73]

Shi, like a bobsleigh? Not sure all us rads ladies will fit in there, our rads lounge is getting quite crowded now barely room to move! We could send it out though to round up the red of the ladies? 😊

[Shi]

Meesh, think we need a few bob 🛷 sending out this week for all our appointments and rounding up jencat, Ruthie babes, Sam, ali, Jellytot,, Buddyfan will have some nice mulled wine and fondue ready for when bob 🛷 run is in 😘😘💕💕✨✨shi xx

[Meesh73]

Evening ladies! Phew what a day. Wasn't sure what time the fitters were starting today so managed to get off to work on time. Hospital called to bring my rads appts forward due to the weather. Just on my way back now. Then the other hospital called with a slot with the dermatologist for tomorrow morning. My head is much better now but I'm still going so they can check it's all as it should be.

Well done to all you ladies who started rads today. Hope you're getting boob time in and letting it all hang out😊 Welcome to Groundhog Day and the daily grind that's rads. No 11 ✅ for me today. Hoorah!

[Chaffinch17]

Well done Fairydust, I had my first one today as did SueW and DizzyBrummie. Why not join us over on the February rads thread x
Hope SEs are being kind Jencat x
Hope the weather doesn’t cause too many problems for everyone this week x

[Fairydust 14]

Hi Buddyfan, I've just picked up a leaflet from my radiotherapy centre for free cancer and rehabilitation exercise sessions. I think they're twice a week at a fairly local gym, and they offer swimming too. I may check it out. My friend loaned me a fit bit so need to show some exercise is being done! Does your hospital offer anything exercise wise perhaps? When you're ready, maybe they'll accept partners too..?

Had my first of 22 rads treatments this morning..it was very easy, just lie there exposed to all who ventures in..but nothing can be done, gotta get through it...

Fairydust xxx

[buddyfan]

Snowing quite nicely here now. My OH is holed up in bed with a recurring bad knee problem. He's way overweight, so that can't help, but it's been going on for ages.
My back is gradually feeling more manageble but I really need to start exercising more to try and strengthen it. No good sitting here on my tablet all day!

[SueW]

Rach and chaffinch good luck to us for our first rads xx 🥓

Jencat hope your feeling okay after last chemo
Karen hope your not too tired after a disrupted sleep

How is everyone else? X

Love and hugs

[Jencat]

Hope rads goes well for those of you who are beginning them today and for those of you who have already started xx

[Shi]

Morning ladies, early one for me too this morning. Karana, can you pick him up a subway or something on your way back from rads as a treat? It sounds like a lot of frustration and se’s from tamoxifen went all his way yesterday 😖 you don’t want a mardy man on your hands today and food always helps with a grumpy oh. Hope everyone gets on well today, we’ve more in the 😎😎😎lounge today 💃🏻💃🏻🕺🕺💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻🕺🕺 we are family, we got all our sisters 🕺💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻🤪🕺🕺💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻🤪🤪🤪💕💕✨✨💕💕shi xx

[karana23]

Morning ladies...up and about nice and early this morning ready for another week at the electric beach 😎😎😎

its blooming feeezing...we had a dusting of snow in the night but nothing to cause chaos on the roads hopefully!  Had an eventful evening...the fire alarm kept going off so I was constantly turning it off and resetting it (OH is technophobe so can’t do it!) in the end we’ve had to disconnect it 😱 don’t think the sensor liked having the tidal wave flood it yesterday!

OH slept in spare bed last night...think I may have given him a few home truths but can’t remember what I said (chemo brain) I remember saying I didn’t think he was very supportive and he didn’t like that 😱😱 will see what mood he’s in when I get back from rads!

Hope you all have a fab day 😘😘😘

[Chaffinch17]

I feel like goat isn’t that different to beef in a curry. I didn’t do the Levi Roots one in the end because it takes too long, I did a Madhur Jaffrey Ghanaian one instead. It was very tasty. I’m surprised that goat meat isn’t more available these days with the popularity of goat dairy products there must be a lot more goats being farmed.
Sorry to hear that you have lost your get up and go Karen, hopefully it will be back very soon x
We’re going to the pub for a burger and the quiz tonight because I suspect we won’t go for the next few weeks with the early starts for rads. Looks like I’ll be wading through snow drifts by the end of the week at 7am ❄️😳☃️⛷

[SueW]

Mutton makes a fab curry as an alternative to goat xx

[WhyteFawn]

We have beef in the slow cooker for later to have with veg and yorkie puds. Yum

[Meesh73]

I just bought some minty lamb chops from the butcher so we've got those. It'll be our last dinner cooked in the oven for a while.

Karen, 🐐is very similar to lamb just a stronger flavour so actually quite nice. When I mentioned to my friend I could cook her 🐐 curry she was horrified and said she doesn't even eat lamb. 🙊 wish she'd told me as I have cooked her moussaka a couple of times which is lamb 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Meesh73]

Morning ladies! 😂🤣😂🤣😂Shi, good to see you're as 😜😝😜as ever. Yes lots of ladies joining us in 😎😎😎🥓🥓🥓lounge next week. Shi, it certainly makes you move quick when you need to think about answering the door and covering your boob at the same time at least I didn't have to think about covering my head too. Perhaps you should have grabbed a bed sheet and slung it over you head and pretended you thought they were overdue trick or treaters 👻👻👻Were the suspicious men the burglars? 

Karen, I hope you feel better today. I would be tempted to bleach those boys too 😂Hope you're feeling better today. The weather here is lovely and ☀️ 😎 but soooo cold 😨

Hope everyone has something nice planned and Jencat hope those SEs are not causing you too much trouble. 😘

[SueW]

Isn’t it strange about cleaning
My son will say I done my bedroom my response to your standards or mine then his reply is usually
Okay I’ll do it again 😂😂😂😂

What’s everyone having for dinner ?
We got lamb shanks I git everything crossed that I can taste/eat it xx

[SueW]

Morning all how are you
Haven’t read all thread yet as git a couple of pages to read lol
Wishing everyone a fab day xx

[Shi]

Karana, sorry just seen in rads it’s super Sunday so you won’t be able to get out for you time. Hope the footy crowd behave and don’t give you any lip, otherwise you might pee pee in their pint and pass it off as a bit of lemon and lime 😂🤣😂🤣😂💕💕✨✨shi xx

[Shi]

🤣😂🤣😂🤣Karana, I’ve got a vision of you chasing them round the house with your cif spray in your rubber gloves 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 try and get out for a bit of Karana time on your own, stick a bit of taylor swift shake it off on, have a treat too if you see something you like 👍👍it’s easy to let a 🤬😡🤬😡mood take over if you let it, please don’t, it already had some of your precious day yesterday and that’s enough. 💕💕✨✨shi xx

[karana23]

I have Shi but there idea of cleaning isn’t the same as mine!!

Before we go back I will give it a thorough bleach to get it back to squeaky clean!!! I may bleach them too 😂 

Im ok...still a bit fed up but hoping that’ll pass 😘😘😘

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[Shi]

Thanks Karana 😘😘how are you today? If you are still feeling bit 🤬😡🤬😡you could go and let it out at the boys if you think it might get them to clean up a bit, you are not the maid😘😘💕💕✨✨shi xx

[karana23]

Just deleted a post again 😡!!

We had a new kitchen put in house when we all moved in together, to have enough room we had an extension built which meant the kitchen had to be redone...I loved it but it’s been neglected since the boys have been left looking after it 😱 I’m sure I will get it looking lovely again when we return!!

https://g.co/kgs/jPs2qv

Goat curry?? Can’t say it’s something I’ve ever tried or want to....do people really eat 🐐??!!

[Shi]

Morning ladies 😁😁just realised we’ve not had our leavers ball 💃🏻💃🏻🕺🕺💃🏻💃🏻For finishing chemo, how about a bit of mid - if you leave, from the leavers ball in the movie Pretty in Pink 💕💕and it’ll also warm us up this ☀️☀️Morning 😁😁hope everyone has nice things planned, jencat hope your se’s being kind, Buddyfan hope your ok and this chilly weather not causing you more aches, sam and Ali hope you are continuing to recover well from ops 😘😘lots of you joining the pink booby party next week in the 😎😎lounge 😁😁nice white fluffy robes waiting for you ladies to snuggle into 😁😁we’ve had a load of burglaries in our area so when I saw some suspicious blokes yesterday (and me turning into a right curtain twitcher) I called the police to give details, anyway bit later on when I was creaming the 🥓🥓boobie, the police came round, hubby was out so I had to shove dressing gown on, I was wigless too and answered the door 🤣😂🤣😂🤣meesh I understand what you went through now the other day when your kitchen arrived early 😲😲😲💕💕✨✨shi xx

[Fairydust 14]

Ooh jealous of your new kitchen Meesh!
Love a goat curry too..

[Meesh73]

Chaffinch, I've never had a new kitchen before. I painted doors at my old house and replaced the work tops but have never had a completely brand new one. So it's a real treat for me, I'm usually a make do and mend kind of girl. Hope you enjoy that 🍷I love a good goat curry😋 can I come for tea? I've already lost interest in preparing food now everything has been boxed up! 

[Chaffinch17]

Gorgeous day here too, went for a short walk and then to Waitrose to stock up on 🍷. Had a voucher for 20% offso would have been rude not to 😜
Making Levi Roots curry goat for tea tonight. Haven’t had it for ages 😋.
Hope you get your mojo back Karana x
You’ve got me looking at my kitchen now Meesh. We still have our original 80’s kitchen that was out in when the house was built. We’ve tarted it up over the years by painting the doors but it badly needs at the very least new flooring and work surface. We’ve resisted so far because we both like to cook and not be precious about it. I think the time may have come though!
Frightened the post lady this morning by opening the door without my hat on! She’s like a frightened rabbit anyway. Hubby calls her post mouse!
Hope everyone is getting out and about today and is blessed with the sunshine too x

[Mishy18]

Everyone elze sorry my still not working properly chemo brain forgot to say hi to you all its lovely and sunny here in Geordie land bloody freezing but sunny all tge same so going for a walk to re energize my self enjoy your weekend whatever you have planned

[Mishy18]

Morning ladies pleased your shampoo is working Shi how lovely you are getting your fluff before you know it you'll be rocking this is England skin head a grey and curly is new me i have hair that resembles a style now so have faith a man my oh knows told me the other day that he loved my hair colour is really funky and style, looked a bit shocked when i said it was a present from chemo 😨😂😂😂
Karana that tired feeling is normal is a combination of all the surgery treatments etc catching up with you x just go with it give in when you can for a rest karana rama you might have to turn down the tempo for your disco dancing to smoochy swaying for a little while 💃💃💃💃and go with the flow 😊

[Meesh73]

Morning ladies! I'm certainly finding it harder to get going in the morning. I don't feel tired I just lack motivation, I'm hoping it's the rads and not tamoxifen as I can't be having lie ins every day especially if I want to start cycling to work again after rads! 

Just had a disastrous breakfast of crumpets and smoothie. The smoothie was fine but how can you get crumpets wrong? I'll tell you. The crumpets were frozen so put them in the toaster defrost setting, then I like to do them a bit longer which I did. They felt hot so I slathered my PB and marmite combo on took a bite and they were freezing cold. OH had turned the setting down to 1 😮So he told me to put them under the grill and I ended up with burnt marmite on the top 😔

Final kitchen cupboard clearing for me today as the fitters come on Monday. I feel like I've been talking about this for ages! But first I need a shower and boob time!

[Shi]

✨✨✨✨❤️❤️❤️✨✨✨💕💕💕✨✨✨✨😁😁😁✨✨✨✨💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻🕺💃🏻🕺🕺🕺💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻✨✨✨✨🎉🎉🎉🎉✨✨✨✨✨✨✨🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪✨✨✨✨✨💕💕💕✨✨✨✨✨for Karana 💕💕💕✨✨✨shi xx

[karana23]

I’m sure it would ✨✨✨ I definitely need some sparkle 💖💖💖💖

[Shi]

Thanks dj Karana 😁😁bring Karana Rama back otherwise we’ll all have to come over, get our 😎😎boobies out and help you clean up while spraying ✨✨everywhere and 💃🏻💃🏻🕺🕺💃🏻💃🏻On your bar like in cyote wild 😂🤣😂🤣😂will it take our gold hot pants? 😁😁😁💕💕✨✨✨shi xx

[karana23]

Shi Karana Rama seems to have gone on holiday and left grumpy one behind 😱😱 perhaps my batteries need replacing or recharging....gonna go clean the pub and put some dancing music on and try get my mojo back!!

Love a bit of Barry white....I bet he give good hugs 🤗

https://youtu.be/Fcd3XuQwDQQ

I’ve been using my lush soap for ages and do think it helps...although my regrow think looks very grey and curly 😱🤪

[Shi]

🛎🛎🛎🎉🎉🎉🛎🛎🛎👍👍👍💃🏻💃🏻🕺🕺💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻well done jencat 😘😘😘 lets have a bit of Barry white - your the first, my everything on the 🚂and we can all do the dance from Ali Mcbeal 💃🏻💃🏻🕺🕺💃🏻💃🏻 hope everyone keeps warm, I am going to get the sledge ready in case we get a bit of ❄️❄️❄️ think it’s all the Winter Olympics, want to go for a sledge 😁😁 Karana hope you are feeling a bit more Karana Rama today lovely, not like you to feel 😴you’ve been like the Duracell bunny on this journey, don’t know how you’ve done it other than having a secret Duracell battery somewhere. Mishy, That new bar looks like it’s starting to work on my shiney bonce thank you 😘😘💕💕✨✨shi xx

[karana23]

Whoop whoop Jencat...well done on getting thru last chemo...hope ur not feeling too bad this morning!!

Karebear...side effects of rads are easy compared to chemo...just a bit of tiredness but gonna up my intake of water to see if that helps...the odd twinge in boob and heavy feeling and a bit of pinkness but nothing to worry about!!

Its bright and sunny here today although chilly...going out shopping with a friend at lunchtime as she’s going on safari and needs some beige clothes so she does t get eaten by lions 🦁 funny thing is I’ve done her fingers and toes nails bright orange so not sure how that works 😂 

Hope everyone has a lovely Saturday 

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[DizzyBrummie]

Yay! Last chemo Jencat 🔔💖 I hope you’re recovering from yesterday’s reaction. Take it steady for this last one x

[Ali49]

Yay Jencat - well done xxc

[Mishy18]

Well done for your last chemo jencat you did it 😊

[Chaffinch17]

Glad you’re back Jencat but sorry to hear about the reaction that you had, hopefully only uphill from here x💪🔔🎉🤞