Good Morning bunny girls
Denise - you are awesome, how ever do you manage to remember what everyone has posted? I do the scrolling on the pink bit but only get the last few. Anyway, big thank you for being our most inclusive bunny:) Have just ordered goose down duvet and pillows from John Lewis. OH said "and how much were they" - again I told him the equivalent of £15 a chemo/herceptin session. (he will work it all out eventually)
GMT - I was also lead to believe that I wouldn't have chemo. Stage 1 tumour, clear margins and nodes, grade 2 and 8/8 ER+..... but, (there always has to be a blooming but..) I am HER2+. Onc told me that without chemo my prognosis is very good, and he wouldn't give me chemo if it wasn't for the fact, I can't have herceptin without doing chemo first. he told me that by doing the chemo and herceptin, with my other factors, my prognosis changes from very good to excellent - that I will be shut of this once and for all.
Knowing all that still left me reeling and very upset but found that the ladies on these boards, particularly the old-timers, gave me all the strength and support I could have wished for and within a couple of weeks moved on to acceptance and 'lets get on with it attitude'. I am now finding that there is so much fun goes on here, I would feel short-changed if i wasn't part of the bunny girl gang!
My BCN has sort of faded away - no great loss as she would talk to me in a soft voice with her head permanently tilted to one side as if I was a blooming half wit - and kept patting my hand! Find my chemo lot much more earthy and suit me better.
Natalie - enjoy Brighton! I love it there and am sure there will be the perfect chemo bag for you - when we meet up we can bring our chemo bags with us! Some years ago, I booked a boutique hotel in Brighton for husbands birthday. All the rooms were themed. We ended up in the Mandarin suite. OMG - it was like sleeping on the set of Aladdin - everything was dark wood and red and gold and great big carved dragons on the four pillars of the four poster. The easy chairs were 2 big carved dragon thrones in gilt and red. W had a huge jacuzzi in the bathroom - also in gilt and adorned with dragons. So I turned on the taps, added sensuous bubbles and then turned it on to jacuzzi and went back into the bedroom to enjoy a glass of something with my husband whilst this huge tub filled.
After about five minutes I got up to see how the jacuzzi was doing, opened the bathroom door and was faced with a solid wall of thick white bubbles that proceeded to spill into the bedroom. OH shouted 'what the hell have you done'... told him I had turned on the taps, added the sandalwood bubbles and turned on the jacuzzi. I am far too much of a lady to repeat what he said.
Of course whist we are debating, the jacuzzi is doing its stuff and filling the bedroom with bubbles. He had to dive into the middle of it all and get to the taps and the jacuzzi controls. he had to do this by touch as the bubbles were so think - and I am thinking, OMG, I am going to be on the 6 0'clock news for having suffocated my husband by bubbles. meanwhile, I have opened the bedroom window and am throwing out handfuls of bubbles onto the pavement below. We spent the whole of the evening getting rid of this thick white foam and by the time we had done, were exhausted and passionate lovemaking was about as far off the agenda as you could get. Natalie, I hope your weekend is suitably more restrained!
Had another HRT withdrawal rotten night and look like I have been dug up this morning. Off out to lunch with friends so will liberally apply the slap - and may take one of the wigs for a test run... now shall it be Roxy, Tallulah or Coco... decisions, decisions..
Have a wonderful Saturday one and all, those who have started may your SEs be teensy weensy.
Much love
PPixie xx
