Breast Cancer Care Forum

Age is just a number as they say 😂 just home from the 5th session so 10 more to go 🙏 skin feels a bit tight but have been moisturising after my shower each night I think new boob is coping well & bio oil is ordered. once radiotherapy is over I will concentrate on applying it religiously. looking forward to last day & hopefully I can put my mind in a strong girl power mode to put this C word behind me & get on with life. hope you’re ok and keeping occupied in this strange world we live in right now. thank you for your lovely message & tips I do appreciate it. hugs 🤗 Nicky xxx ... View more

Hi Angie  Aww bless you I think the hair falling out is gonna be hard for you maybe take the plunge & get the clippers out.🥰You know this will grow back just as beautiful as it was your a super brave warrior be proud of yourself & like you said many pretty scarfs around & ive seen lady’s wearing amazing wigs you can be a different colour & style  each day. remember you have so got this & will reach the top of the mountain soon. i hope you’re not having the sickness too bad. started radiotherapy Monday & so far so good just 10 more sessions to go. tamoxifan I seem to have adapted to ok just a few night sweats here & there 🙄 hoping you are getting lots of help & support & resting up as much as you can.  I’m behind you all the way 🌈 🙏 keep safe & always positive 🙏 big hugs 🤗 Xxx ... View more

Hi Helen sorry you find your self on here & joining us pink warriors. Make a list of Q for your surgeons & nurses & I found writing it all down helps I also had lots of phone appointments due to Covid. hope whatever you decide goes ahead smoothly & I’m having radiotherapy now every one is in PPE & they take your temperature upon arrival & ask you to wash hands. It’s a rather scary world but you need your treatment so be advised & guided by your nurse. keep positive good luck 😉   ... View more

How are you doing my lovely ?  hope you’re ok keep positive 🙏 🌈 enjoy the sunshine & lazy days in the garden.Xxx ... View more

Aww thank you so much I’m now in the five oh club🤪 beautiful day lots of social distances visitors throughout the day I was spoilt lots of flowers & gifts.... BBQ as hubby couldn’t take me to dinner it’s was yummy & yes washed down with a few Prosecco’s..... Too many 🤪 Radiotherapy started on Monday so far so good I feel fine just a little tired maybe.  I’m gonna order bio oil from good old amazon thanks for the tip. hope you’re okay & getting out to see friends & family a little now but safely of course. thanks for remembering my birthday my lovely 😊 🌈 🙏 🌈 xx   ... View more

Aww bless you Angie 🤗 sorry you felt a bit out of zinc I understand this chemo will not make you feel so human days after a session I guess this is why it’s spaced out 3 weekly. well done you that’s one session completed your on the right road now to recovery & before you know it you will be ringing the bell 🛎 .🤷‍ ♀️ 💗 💗 💗 🌈 🌈 🌈 🙏 🙏 🙏  I’m okay on the tablets so far no side effects but I guess it will take a while to kick in & I will be saying hello to menopause 🤷‍ ♀️ Radiotherapy starts 1st June I went for my little dot tattoos last week it was ok.... This sunshine is beautiful I’ve sat in the garden quite a bit I love listening to the birds. hope you’re managing to get out & relax in the sun too. I’m back to work on the 2nd July Looking forward to returning but have to get used to the new normal. look after yourself & take it easy you have got this 🙏 🌈 big hugs 🤗   Nicky Xxx ... View more

Hi ya Delly  thank you for your message & hope you’re okay & keeping busy during this weird time I’m hopeful the sun will have its hat on again soon ☀️ yes I’m approaching that half a century birthday & looking forward to being in the nifty club on 27th May it’s going to be a quiet one due to COVID making the world a strange place but I will make up for it next year & will be sitting on a beach somewhere to make up for not being able to this year.  I’m on day 14 of tamoxifen & so far so good & no hot flushes yet I imagine it will take time to work & eventually bring me in to the menopause club & Zoladex is for 3 years & tamoxifen is 10 years as long as it does it’s job and keep that horrid C word from me I will learn to ride with any side effects that arise. booby is settling in good & kind soft now & hopefully I can get the cherry on the cake added one day, as for my huge scar across my tummy it’s still rather red but healed good & guess will fade in time, it’s my war wound along with my armpit one. i start radiotherapy on 1st June so hopefully after that 3 weeks course I’m able to jump for joy & tell cancer it picked on the wrong girl. I will like you always go in this site & try to help others as I will always remember how ladies like you helped calm me down on days when I was loosing the plot. Anyway keep safe & forever positive 🙏 🌈 hugs Nicky Xx ... View more

Hi Angie just a little note to say I was thinking of you yesterday & really hope you’re first Chemo wasn’t too harsh. Rest up & stay positive & keep your lovely chin up you’ve so got this pink warrior 💗 Big hug  Nicky  ... View more

Hi Angie  So glad you are getting into the book, you seem head strong & positive, that is great & yes some relaxing oils & lots of stories to listen to on U tube with women going through chemo sharing tips. Maggies is worth looking into after the COVID of course.  I’m on day 3 on Tamoxifen feel okay so far but I guess it will take a while to get in my system, so when you are ready for them I can give you tips. hope you’re ok keep you lovely chin up. big hugs 🤗 Xxx ... View more

Hi Angie  I will be thinking of you a week Thursday, take your book & from what I saw in the infusion suite at Finchley the nurses are super caring, ask for the anti sick tablets if you feel a bit sick, my cousin is on chemo she says they work great. Aww you got your head scarfs I was looking at them too encase I needed them & some lovely ones about buy a few lots of colour. I don’t know if you have heard of Maggie’s they are situated at the royal free & do wonderful get together’s with people going through treatment & lots of Pilates, yoga , massages, makeup course ......it may be something  to help you on this journey. Tamoxifen Will be swallowed 💊 I will be a good girl 🤣 I imagine you have stopped yours for the moment, did you find them okay. keep me posted on how you get on  positive thinking all the way dream of a wonderful holiday & well deserved treats for next year 🌈 🙏 💓 hugs  Nicky Xxx     ... View more

Hi Angie  Good thing you asked for the test & odd why results were low on paper but test confirmed otherwise, I do hope you can start soon I was the same if it’s to be done let’s get on with it. you are going to be amazing & will ring that bell & put all this behind you, take all the help going & make new friends on the way your not alone 💓 pleased you ordered the book I read a book when I was first diagnosed it helps a bit.  I’m going to pop the first Tamoxifen tonight & will learn to ride with the side affects & I shall hopefully know Thursday when I start Radiotherapy like you I want done & put this chapter behind me. This Lockdown has given me time to adjust & have time for me but I shall be looking forward to returning to work. let me know when you get a start date I will be thinking of you all the way through this. you got this my lovely 😊 💓 🌈 🙏 big hugs 🤗   Nicky Xxxx   ... View more

Hi Ya  Snap I had the same 10th Jan this year the pains blooming horrid I was happy when the healing got better.  glad you are up & about I hear you about the boob thing 🤣 I feel ones firmer than the other now but I’m looking forward to September when I get the nipple 🙏 I hope you’re results are ok with the heaving bleeding fingers crossed for you 🌈 🙏 Wow you don’t need tamoxifen or chemo or radiotherapy 🤗 happy days then your ready to get on with life & cherish is & kiss bye to this horrid C word. let us know how you do & keep safe & take things easy don’t over do it Xxx   ... View more

Hi ya Angie Always remember the words ... you got this 💪 As you know I was told Chemo too & so it was a tough pill to swallow over the last few weeks I was getting my head around starting it with many fears & one loosing my hair but came to the realisation that hey it’s gonna grow back & so many pretty scarfs around.  I’m extremely lucky I got that test done & results came back low risk I actually sobbed with joy. if I remember correct you were done & gone back to work so did your oncologist put you forward for the test or did you go private I’m just thinking if you didn’t have the test you would of not known you was a high risk of it returning so it’s good you had it done. I will definitely stay in touch & support you & always put posts up with questions on chemo on here this site has been a godsend to me when I’ve had wobbles. A book I was recommended was called, Chemo & Tea you can buy this off amazon..... have a look. hope you have a breast care nurse who helps you, mines called Eileen & how many times she’s had me sobbing on the phone I don’t know bless her even hearing her voice calmed me down, so please take all the help from your nurse.  I’m thinking if you start Chemo in a few weeks you are probably going to have this over a 6 month period or a little longer if it’s 3 weekly, do you know where you will have chemo? I was at the infusion suite at Finchley memorial hospital today having my first Zoladex injection ( hello menopause I guess soon ) but I was impressed how clean & caring the nurses are there & saw lots of ladies having chemo all talking & being positive warriors, I think this may be your nearest hospital so you never know I could see you there sometime as these injections are monthly & radiotherapy will be at Royal Free. I would like to meet up as we planned when all is safe to do so & have that cuppa of course if you feel up to it. Tamoxifen I’m starting this on Monday I will of course be a pro on giving you tips when you are ready to take. keep strong 💪 stay positive & girl powers ok 👍   Stay safe 🌈 🙏 big hugs 🤗   Nicky Xxx   ... View more

Hi ya Doodally 😀 I’ve also not been on here a while it’s mad how this lockdown has made me find loads to do from clearing cupboards to reading & being a film junkie... As you know I went on the Optima trial & after quite a few weeks of waiting the test came back that I was a low risk & that I did not need chemo so I jumped with joy when I got the call 2 days ago as today I was supposed to start chemo but instead I had the first injection of Zoladex I will have this each month & guess say hello menopause soon & I will start my tamoxifen tomorrow & 15 rounds of radiotherapy when Covid has lessened. The infusion department today was extremely cautious of cross infection , wash your hands & take a seat & then temperature taken before you go in & with a mask 😷 on I didn’t feel out of place every one had a mask on, I think chemo is being done on urgent patients and patients that had started before all the virus 🦠 arrived bless all the nurses working so hard. scary time for everyone I wish it would bugger off now. husbands not on chef duty I’m not working & feeling well so back with my pinney on 🤣 omg you poor thing to get that horrid C word in the other boob after getting over the first time your a double pink warrior for sure. I will hope to still go on here too like you to help others as I’ve found this so helpful in my darkest hours & will always remember how lots of ladies like you helped put my mind at ease & chill my beans.  I’m going to be looking for tips on tamoxifen soon & it’s side affects 🌈 🙏 hope you’re good & keeping safe in this lockdown, shame the weather has gone from sun to blooming down pours.... hey ho... keep in touch & thank you for checking in on me I’m ok my anxiety has lessened & I’ve learned to ride with this, girl power all the way 💓 🌈 big hugs  Nicky Xxx   ... View more

Aww thanks I did up the exercises & did lots of upward strokes as it felt puffy but now all is okay apart from the underarm numbness. hope you’re not feeling too sore 😉 good luck keep strong 💪   Xxx ... View more

Aww Angie I am sorry to hear you need Chemo I thought you was all finished & been put on tamoxifen following the surgery. Did you have the test private I know you was thinking of doing that, oh you poor thing you must feel so deflated again I’m sorry I haven’t been on here lately you can always add me on Facebook if you are on there we can inbox each other if you like. Nicky Hadjisergis  what ever you have to do it’s going to be tough but you have so got this remember that ... girl powers. 🌈 🙏 As you know I am on the Optima trial I have had the results & it’s come back I’m not going to need chemo I start on Tamoxifen & have monthly injection starting today so I will say hello to menopause I guess 😉 & 15 rounds of radiotherapy which will be after all this Covid has buggered off. have they explained how many rounds of chemo you need ?  my cousin is going through it now she has told me that there are anti sickness drugs that really help & cold cap that will help you not to loose hair. your gonna be on my mind now 😉 I’m gutted you got this result big massive hug to you Xxx keep in touch 🌈 🙏 🤗 🤗 🤗 🤗 ... View more

Hi Laura   welcome to this wonderful site it’s sure helped me keep sane during my journey. Sorry to hear you have been diagnosed with this horrid nasty C word, it knocks you for six & your journey may change along the way as mine did. keep strong 💪 & positive I also was told after my operation it bloody spread to the lymph nodes so had another operation to remove 20 lymph’s and it was found in 3 so kinda getting my head around that I may have to have chemo but hey ho what will be will be. when C enters your life it kind of becomes the new normal if that makes sense. Ask lots of questions I wish you all the best on your journey. you got this 🌈 🙏 Nicky X  ... View more

🤣 Delly I googled it SNB sentinel node biopsy, 🤗 🤗 I did not have that mine was just taken  out during surgery.... xxx ... View more

Hi Angie    Good to hear from you it’s all a worrying time in the world right now isn’t it. Isolation with young children is tough & I hope you’re boys are now enjoying mummy being teacher too 🤔 Have a much rewarding glass of wine some evenings 😘 I signed up for the trial last week & now it’s waiting time to if I was one of the lucky ones as not everyone gets on it’s all done on a score base & unfortunately I will never know if I was chosen. I am not sure if I told you that my oncologist suggested Chemo 😢 due to it spreading to 3 lymph nodes, this has been booked for me to start on 17.04.20 but will be cancelled if the trial says I will be ok on the hormone tablets. its all rather hard explaining it but basically if I go to my next appointment on 14th April & am told it’s 100% chemo I will not know if it was the trial that determined that or it was just a case I did not get on the trial. I did toy with the idea of looking for a private test but then thought what if I waste 3000 & still need chemo so I made the choice of what will be will be. I also fear what if cells got loose & I would hate that my being a scaredy-cat over chemo inflicted cancer starting elsewhere. Im okay though funny enough calm right now!  This isolation is frustrating as I have been at home 3 months just as I was due to return to work this virus started & my boss said no & I should stay at home. Hey ho I’ve kept busy lots of rather organised cupboards 🤣 move over Mrs Hinch huh. Also I have watched a few good Dramas, Penance was good & i am watching The Nest & Belgravia , the Liar ..... my husband doesn’t get the tv controls much 🤷‍ ♀️ Anyway keep safe Angie & strong hope you’re feeling ok. Big hugs  Nicky Xxx   ... View more