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Popped into wish all the Vals a very Happy and Health New Year. Dont know what i would have done without you all over the last few years. Looking forward to our meet up and a large group hug xxx ... View more

Hello Michele, how are you getting on? Did they find a solution for your problems as I have similar. Hugs ... View more

I haven't been on here for awhile, but felt immediately drawn here after the latest news on our fellow VAL. I am floored, tearful and totally lost for words as to what has been going on with her? Just hope that things will get sorted out and questions will get answered. Keep strong Annabelle love and hugs and prayers to you xxxxx ... View more

We have lost our dear Valentines sister Sandra, gone but never forgotten. RIP Sandra XXXXXXX ... View more

Hello Vals I thought I would post on here as I have not done so for a while. Kath I love your poems they are so meaningful. God life has been a rollercoaster over the past year hasn't it? I was looking at last years diary and I had my drs appt on the 16th October re lump, that I found, a week after my 'all clear mammo'. Biopsy on the 26th October then off to UK for a holiday, trying not to worry about results - then the results on the 7th November!!! That's the day my life changed and its a day that's looming up. Can't decide whether to celebrate it or not?    I know that some may think that celebration is a strange word to use, but I do somehow feel that it is a date that needs some recognition. Maybe a celebration as its the start of new things to come. I have certainly changed a lot in the last year, less stressed, more layed back, eating better, are just a few things on my list of changes. Realisation too at who and what is important in my life, especially friends. Some who I thought were good ones, were not. Others that I hardly new have been just great. Importantly my new virtual friends in the name of you vals. I could not have gotten through this year without you all. I am really looking forward to meeting some of you next week and the rest I hope in February!   I have also become involved in a cancer retreat here in France and I am helping them out on a volunteer basis. I met an amazing bunch of ladies this week. Some who had just finished treatment for ovarian cancer and the rest Breast. Two from Holland and the rest UK based. It was lovely to meet them and great to feel that I was helping them in some small way.   Anyway, enough of my rabbiting. Sandra I read an earlier post from you and please continue to off load or share anything you want with us. It is so lovely to hear from you. You are constantly in my thoughts and my prayers. Love to all you vals. Karen xx ... View more

Hello Golden Girl. i am nearly a year from diagnosis and treatement. I had invasive  lobular cancer, grade 3 stage 1 Her2 +. I had a wle, chemo rads and am still have my herceptin,  along with hormone therapy for the next how many years!   In view of what I went through, and I know you are a bit different as you are having a mx, I would advise to wait on reconstruction surgery. Give yourself and your body time to recover and adjust, then maybe a year down the road you can re evaluate things. By the way yesterday i had a results from my MRI and mammogram and all were clear, so next mammogram Sept 2014.Good luck with what ever route you take and be kind to yourself karen x ... View more

Morning vals Sill reeling from Sandra's latest news, I cannot believe the emotions she must be feeling at the moment, but I'm angry at the medics for putting her through all of this !!!!!! Some heads need to roll!!!!! MMM sorry you are feeling a bit miserable, are you taking your tamoxifen at night, some say that it helps taking it then. I can't help you as I'm taking anastrazole . Maybe the se will settle down soon. It can't help with the fingers at the moment either, so you have every right to feel a bit miserable and get some extra TLC I think! I too am not liking this new forum lay out, I'm just glad we have FB. Big love to all of you vals Xxxxxx ... View more

Prayers for Sandra - I'm lost for words xxxx ... View more

Oh Sandra I'm lost for words :(((((((((( xxxx ... View more

Back from hols and feeling a little more rested apart from the long drive. Kath like you I was sitting on the beach and couldn't help thinking to myself that this time last year whilst on the beach and last summer being care free little did I know what was growing inside of me!!! Scary isn't it?? I am due a breast MRI again in October and ultrasound on the 7 th and 10 th so only then will I feel a little more relaxed, if that the right word!!??? No point feeling around at the moment as so much oedema after rads and swollen scar tissue that I would scare myself senseless, told to wait as it will take a few months for everything to settle down after rads. So far no se from anastrazole but it has only been two weeks!! Love to all and hope you are ok Dyane as we have not heard from you for ages xx. ... View more

I must admit I don't find this forum so user friendly any more. Sill on hols, drive back on Sunday I've been eating too much so that's depressing me but diet will start on Monday along with swimming and walking! Love to all vals and ill catch up again when home x ... View more

A quick pop in, not liking this new lay out one bit! Love to all I will be a bit more active when back from hols Have a good bank holiday Xxx ... View more

Yep it's back but I'm not liking it yet!!! ... View more

Hello all, thought I should pop in here as not having done so for a while, I've been enjoying the banter on FB vals!. i always have a look on the forum to see if I can help any of the ladies who are just starting out on this road, but I try to leave my moans to FB as I know you vals understand and I don't want to unnecessarily worry newbies on here! things in the healing dpt are going well, after rads and I am starting to feel a bit more comfortable. Even met a friend for early lunchtime drinks and left at 3.30 having started at 11.30, my OH said it was nice to see me a bit more relaxed even though it was the alcohol helping! I bought a great book that amazon delivered called the Cancer survivors companion by Dr Frances Goodhart and Lucy Atkins it's really informative and there is a really good chapter on Fatigue - worth getting vals. its always nice to hear normality Alison so you must never worry, good news is always a tonic. sorry no personal mentions but you are all in my thoughts and I send you all my love karen xx ps off to Bordeaux tomorrow, looking forward to cycling along the river and having a nice lunch somewhere. ... View more

Love the poem Kath sandra have replied to,you on FB big love and hugs to you xx ... View more

Afternoon vals Thank you so much for your kind words of support its been a shitty weekend! The funerals in Paris on Wednesday, but I'm not going as still having rads and all that emotion will be awful at this time! I'll meet up with the family in the autumn , I've sent flowers and a lovely poem I found. kath, your bloods will be because you are on Anastrazole, they need to check your cholesterol levels regularly as anastrazole can raise these levels, also you get a better reading for diabetes with fasting bloods. Don't worry all normain things to be done, I just had mine done, and will have regularly too. No eating after 9pm or drinking, only water, and nothing in the morning, only water before bloods. Yvonne sorry about your rude radiologists, don't tolerate it next time! linda, glad you are keeping well and hopefully se free as that nasty chemo gets out of your system. Herceptin is a walk in the park on its own, I've had no worries and I am sure you will not too. i have 4 rads left and cannot wait to finish. My skin is not doing well but had a word with drs today and got some better cream to help with my itchy rash, hope Dyane is coping with hers. My rads boob is swollen with odeoma and massaging it is sore due to skin, so cant wait to finish. Meeting consultant tomorrow to get my prescription and no doubt be told what to expect with follow ups etc. will keep you posted. Love to all I have missed karen xx ... View more

Been in tears all weekend, trying to stay normal but can't stop crying. My dear friend in Paris died on Friday after a four year battle with this dreadful disease, she sadly caught a heart virus that weakend her heart so she was unable to get all the treatment she needed. RIP Karine, I'm sure you are dancing with the angels xxx ... View more

since I live in Gascony in france the motto all for one and one for all is very apt as it is the birthplace of the musketeers! kath fantastic news about Doppler, but we knew it was going to be negative. caroline I remember the cabbage leaf for mastitis, must look it up as I thought they were ment to be wet?? Also as france is so rigid on fresh produce and selling what's in season, I will never find a cabbage for sale anywhere - wonder what's from the same family and may be in season now? still sore boobed lying in front of a fan letting it all hang out! big love xxx ... View more

Hello Vals have been at this bloody place, hospital , since 07.30 this morning having got up at 05.30 and I am knackered! started with blood tests, then heart scan with nuculeur injections, then rads, then consultation with onc, then quick sandwich and now having Herceptin! May just get home if I'm lucky by 16.00!!! Sitting here reflecting on things and Sandra fret not, you will be given a different type of chemo to attack this new something you can have a different type of cancer at the same time one may be hormone sensitive where the other is not, they will attack it strongly! you must not worry about us, I thinks it's because we all feel so helpless and want to there're for you. We are virtually. i have regular Reiki and find it very good, maybe something to think about as it helps you relax and I swear it helped me through my chemo. ive decided to call myself Karen redbreast as I have one swollen large boob, red from the rads! IFHC and what it is doing to us all! love to all xx ... View more

I thought I must post on here as haven't for a long time. Kath I am delighted for your news lm sure the Doppler will not show any DVT and it will put your mind at rest. Sandra, I said on FB what I feel and that is one of great shock! I am hear sending you love and prayers from across the channel. all the rest of you vals sorry for not replying personally but I feel as if the stuffing has been knocked out of me with Sandra's news.I hope all your treatments and recoveries are passing without any problems? Rads continue, 8 more to go, I've had an allergic reaction to the see through plasters that cover my drawings, so boob looks bloody awful! It's red, but not burnt, and has small non healing sores because of plasters and rads not allowing healing. Just picked up different cream from nurse so hope that works! nearly a whole day tomorrow at hospital, bloods at 8 am, followed by Nucluear heart scan, followed by rads followed by onc, followed by Herceptin! Joy NOT!! love to you all and I'll be back on here again soon karen xx ... View more