Breast Cancer Now Forum

Oh Janice - so sorry to hear that Phil's back in again... am sure he'll enjoy some time out tomorrow. Hopefully they'll get that infection under control. Your grandsons are sooo cute! I'm going to be a grandma in February 🙂 so exciting and wonderful to have something positive to look forward to! xxx Anne and Jane - have been thinking of you both and hoping that everything is going as well as can be expected under the circumstances. Sending hugs and ladles to you. We're all here for you both xxx Doz - Bet Afghan Dan had a wonderful welcome home!! He'll be chuffed to bits with what you've done with the house I bet! xxx Well I'd better get back to my assignment 😞 only another 2500 words and a couple of readings.... yawn! 😮 Hugs, love, spoons in lots of different sizes to all who need them. Lozza xxx 🙂 xxx ... View more

Jane - so sorry to read what's been going on, so difficult to know what to do and say. Guess its about being there for them all - I feel for you all I really do. It must be such a relief for your brother to be able to speak freely to you. Sending love and hugs to you all. Anne - hope your MIL is not in pain and is able to have her op soon. Such a worry I know. Please don't beat yourself up about not seeing her as often as you'd like, I'm sure she realises. Lovely to hear you had some time away last weekend - and no, it's not selfish. Doz - good to hear you've only got 2 shifts this week! Gosh you've been working hard - where do you get your energy from!! So cross about the biker - hate dishonest people. We had a similar thing with a rider on a horse who had freaked out and did considerable damage to our car. Hubby went to make sure she was ok and she was ... the next thing we know her father (who wasn't even there) made a claim for vets fees!! He was in the Farmers Union and managed to get them on board! It was a horrible time and I'm only glad that hubby had reported it to the police first. So hope it gets sorted soon and that its a good result. Janice - Do hope that Phil is continuing to make good progress. Spent a long day in A&E today with FIL who had chest pains. Thankfully he's ok and was discharged, he's 83 so by the time we got him home and settled, spent time with MIL and come home ... I've felt too exhausted to even open my OU books to get on with my EMA assignment which is due in just over a week!! Am feeling the stress and can't wait for it to be done and dusted!! Have my oncology appointment on Tuesday ... need to decide whether to bite the bullet and go for an oophorectomy so I can go on Arimidex as the excess saliva and continual nausea of tamoxifen is getting to me. After nearly six months you'd have thought it'd settled down!! Sending love, squishy hugs and spoons to you all Lozza 🙂 xx ... View more

Am wide awake ... can't sleep... So thought I'd come and see what you've all been up to. Janice - hopefully your Phil will be home later today so you won't be lonely and you can feed him up! ❤️ Helen - hope you get your ortho appt soon. birthday celebrations ... how lovely ... 21 gosh where does the time go! My eldest will be 30 this year and I have a 26 year old and my youngest is 24 next month. Gosh I feel old! 😮 Doz - hopefully you're slumbering now. So frustrating when your hands are too hot for gloves... I remember those days and that was pre BC! Ooh a double shift on Saturday - rest up today and spoil yourself. Jane - sorry you're having a difficult time at work ... hope it resolves itself and you are able to make any necessary decisions and have peace in your heart about it. I miss coffee ... tastes awful now and I so used to be a coffeeholic 😞 Miss chocolate too ... Malteasers and Cadbury Giant Buttons ... used to be my favourites ... cant taste it now sadly 😞 but I can taste plain Bounty bars 🙂 funny really cos I used to hate plain chocolate! Anne - ooh hark at you ... sitting in the garden ... T Shirt and knickers!! You go girl! Love that! Welcome to the newbies from a newby! Hugs and love to you all and I hope you all have a good day today. Remember... the past is the past, you can't change it - but today is full of possibilities! sleep well Lozza xx ... View more

Hi Anne just wanted to say that I feel for you. I still have days when I feel quite anxious - even at work. I'm so different if from the person I used to be. My manager at work says I've lost my mojo ... I'm hoping it'll return some day soon. I finished my treatment on Good Friday (how apt!) apart from Tamoxifen and venlafaxine which is supposed to help with the hot flushes and hasn't really. I'm seeing oncologist next month and have to decide whether to go for an oophorectomy so I can see if I fair better on Arimidex. They all have their side effects tho sadly. I would like to not have the nausea and excess saliva in my mouth. I'm leaning towards having it done ... was just gonna ride it out but after 4 months the thought of nearly 5 years doesn't exactly thrill me. sorry I'm moaning now and didn't intend to ... I try to explain it to OH but I think he just switches off now ... not that I blame him ... as I'm rather bored with it myself lol! So we'll just continue with 'sheet on, sheet off' at bedtime .... and sneak theq fan on when he's asleep! He moans cos he gets cold ... Well I've offered him some of my pills to warm him up but he declines! Just no helping some people lol! Anyway I've drifted off .... what I wanted to say Anne was 'hang on in there' you're doing great ... celebrate the things you are able to do (no matter how small) and believe in yourself. It takes time and yes I think it's still early days. I know my OH 'just wants my wife back' (his words) ... but I'm not that person any more ... I'm still re-discovering myself. We've all been through such a lot ... so don't be hard on yourself. Glad you had a lovely weekend Doz and thanks for the welcome everyone - warmed my heart like you wouldn't believe. Bless you lovely ladies Sending warm fuzzy hugs to you all Sleep well Lozza xxx 🙂 ... View more

Hello ladies Well I was feeling very down today, and found this site quite by accident ... I've come across it before and then couldn't find it again! Anyway I'm rambling now !! Just wanted to say Jane that your post is hilarious ... and really cheered me up no end - so thank you! Hugs to you all Lozza 😄 xx ... View more

I am covered with these ... even more so post treatment. I wouldn't worry ... they're benign. Xx ... View more