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Hi Sparkle, Sandpiper and Pye. Oh dear - you poor girls. I'm tempted to offer to tell my limited list of Xmas Cracker jokes, try and cheer you all up a bit. They're so bad, they're groaningly laughable at. Everyone else on this forum has heard 'em all before!! What do you call a three legged Donkey?????  Sparkle - Stop talking rubbish about "not having surgery", otherwise we'll all come and sort you out. Won't we girls?!!! What are these "clips" that a couple of you have mentioned. Are they internal, and to mark the boundaries of your tumours, so that shrinkage can be detected and monitored?  Ref your monitoring - have you contacted your BCN to find out the monitoring situation?? If not, why don't you give her a quick call. It is what they're there for, lovey, to give you a contact link for advice/help inbetween appointments, rather than wait on info. (Sorry Pye, have just read you'd said more or less the same in a much earlier link. Great minds 'n all that me dear).  Sandpiper - Yeh, I'd read on-line somewhere it takes at least 3 months of Tamox to begin its shrinking action. Good to hear you are okay, bar the tabs. Is the July Mammo for a year's check up??  I can remember having yearly physical check-up appointments (didn't have Mammos because double mast) and them being upsetting, bringing it all back to the fore, but a bit less upsetting each time. Then being signed off after yr 5 exam gave a rush of "relief" and "freedom". Twas celebrated, heehee!! Pye - That sounds like a very frustrating appointment you had with your consultant. Does he usually ask you to fill him in on the details?? Would be somewhat disconcerting to me, I have to say. Was the previous biopsy you had on your second mass a "needle" biopsy? If so, this second one may be a "Core" biopsy? Or was your first biopsy a "Core" one, where they take a larger piece of tumour tissue using a very thin barrelled gun type gadget that has a trigger, shoots a little gripper out of the end, grabs some tissue and snaps back in again. Sounds like something from the "Alien" horror film, doesn't it. I hope you both get "shrinkage", on the bits you want to shrink that is!  And the answer is . . . WONKEY of course.   Oy, stop booing you lot 😉   I've lost my Emoticon button on here - is it just me? Is there something I've clicked off by mistake?? "I'm" clicking off now.  Lotsa love to everyone  xxxxxx     ... View more

     * * HAPPY  50th  BIRTHDAY  PINKYFLEUR!  HEARTFELT  CONGRATULATIONS  TO  YOU * * Hope you've had good day so far, as well as can be had in the circs. Hope you have a lovely evening. Perhaps a nice lovey dovey dinner with hubby and a bottle of something spesh? Some time discussing how to celebrate it "proper" when everyone is set free again. Also hope you're still doing okay on the tabs. So Rads next week Hey. Another "first" experience for you. Glad your new boob is now healed, hope you're satisfied with the results so far. Try Bio-Oil on your tummy scar. It's a bit pricey, but "You're worth it" X (<<can't find the emoticons). It's very good, does what it says on the bottle and adverts with scars, and it's very fine so a small amount goes a long way. Have a good night Nicky.  Lots of love to you  x x x Ps - Let me/us know how you're going on with your rads, when you're able or up to  x ... View more

Hi Nicky pinkyfleur, Good to hear and see you upbeat. That is soo grrreat to hear your NO CHEMO REQUIRED news - yaahooo girl 😀   I've had to read up on Zoladex (I only know about Tamoxifen). It listed early menopause as a "rare" side effect, Nicky, so you may be able to hang on to it, but then the Tamox may knock your periods on the head after a while, of course. Is the Zoladex a long or short term treatment? And I'm presuming Tamox will be long term preventative, yeh? So your natural menopause time/age may have been looming up in the next year or so anyway, because somebody's    ** 50th **    has either been or is coming up ????  Which is it pinkyfleur?  If it's been, a belated "HAPPY BIRTHDAY".  I remembered you saying you wanted to be well for you 1/2 century in May.  Bit of a pain in the Viral climate, hey.  You'll have to properly make up for it once its all settled down.  **Let us know if it's still to come, and what date.  I'll keep my eyes peeled for a reply from you and come on to make some appropriate "whoohooo" noises. How's your "booby" friend now?? You haven't mentioned anything about it. Has it all settled, and are you happy with the results - tummy as well?? I'll sign off now and speak again soon. Hope you feel okay on your meds. Lotsa love to you and anyone else looking on, Dellywelly   xxxxxx ... View more

Pye - The benefits very recently found from Tamox for BiPolar, are in helping calm, bring down the "Mania" states, presumably because it tends to be a depressant. When I took it following my 2nd BC, 2007 (47), and still premenopausal, I only stood it for about 2 months, as it gave me such major depression. I stopped it, feeling I'd rather have a better quality of life, compared to the possible risks of not taking it. So I'm still not understanding why it should be having such a "feelgood" effect on you? !!  Unless you are a very "hyper" person? Lots of love to everyone  xxxxxxx      ... View more

Sorry, a quick PS, and apologies if someone has already made this comment - I haven't read through all of your posts on this thread. Pyewacket - Where on earth are you getting hold of your Tamoxifen from???!!! I've never heard ANY one say they've felt BETTER on it. Sounds great. Want some !  😄 ... View more

Hi Girls Don't know if any of you have read this link, hope it's of some use. I was just fascinated to hear and read on here, that Tamox is now being used as neo-adjuvant treatment for shrinkage, and can be very successful with some larger tumours.   https://www.breastcancer.org/research-news/neoadjuvant-hormonal-tx-vs-neoadjuvant-chemo Firstly, I'm sorry to butt in on your thread Sparkle, but I'm actually chasing Pyewacket from a notification I received in my Inbox, very kindly (or strangely) giving me a "hug" to a post I made on "Progesterone, Other Hormones and Fluffy Cakes", ages ago - 21. 09. 2016 !! I'll pop over to your Radiotherapy thread, Pye. To all of you - BC is bad enough to cope and deal with isn't it, without all this Corona virus s*** complicating matters and adding to already difficult decisions. So I hope you can all manage to stay "up-beat" and strong till it's over. I'm an "oldie" ref BC, 2006 and 07 (aged 46/47), so I wanted to sympathise with you all whilst here. X Hope all your treatments and surgery go well and you all recover well and speedily.  Lots of love to everyone Delly xxxxxxx  ❤️    ... View more

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Jill - Yes, I went into the thread to read the post, but it's a bit of a strange link to some numbers. Ohhh, I'm really sorry to hear you're still having soo much to contend with. What genetic disorder is it Jill?? You don't have to answer tonight. I'm off to bo-bo's. Nighty night flower xxx ... View more

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Hi Jill Thanks for your hug. How are you lovey? I remember you having a lot of discomfort with your joints, was it your knee as well? I thought someone had sparked up your old "Need a Hug or Kick Up Backside" thread, when I had a notice. Had a look, but I'm always a bit hesitant to open strange looking links on posts, aren't you?  XXX  ... View more

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Hi Helena Am just wanting to say "Hi", and thinking about you often. Hope you're doing okay, flower. I don't doubt having your difficult moments with grieving, probably many of them.  But I hope you're also able to derive some comfort and solace from thinking and talking with family and friends about happy memories you have. Daft things that made you laugh. Lovely places you went to, holidays and such. I was doing some reading on the mind.org.uk site last week. Noticed a section on "bereavement" and had a read of. You may be interested to have a look at it yourself, as there's some really helpful info, plus useful contacts/links should you be struggling at all.  There's even a section on Pet bereavement - Awww - never to be underestimated. I went to a talk on bereavement, after my Mum died, given by a counsellor. Found it helped explain the different sorts of reactions you/people can have to and different effects losing someone can have on you. Plus different stages - the you can't believe to begin with, acceptance, some people go through an "angry" stage, "Why have you left me?" - feel abandoned. Are you still off work, Helena?   Lee - Hope you and Tone are staying well and virus free. Was he having a problem with his legs (was it?) a short while back? If so, are they okay now? Yeh, I too hope your daughter finds another job soon, after things have settled again. BTW - I'm an avid fan of "The Bondi Vet" programmes. Love 'em, and anything else animal wise. Am just having some chuckles watching "Two and a Half Men" - the more recent ones with the hunky Ashton Kutcher  😊 (as oppo Charlie Sheen ☹️ ). Find they and repeats of, repeats of, repeats of (!) "Friends" great for a giggly lift. Hope everyone else is okey dokey too. Lots of love to you all, from DoolallyDelly xxx xxxx   ... View more

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WHISKY  !!   Ey up girls - We're back to booze again. Funny that, isn't it. Ha ha!!  xxxxx ... View more

Hi Pinkyfleur/Nicky   Sorry, haven't been on in a while, myself. "Impromptu" - unplanned, spur of the moment, without preparation. Did you start the chemo on the 17th?? That would be a week now then. In the words of Joey from Friends - "How YOU Doin"?? (Am still enjoying repeats of repeats of that wonderful series, love 'em)   How's it going, and how on earth are hospitals coping with chemo patients and all this frickin virus business. Mad innit.   Yep, had in both boobs. A new different primary in the second. I'd felt it, a few days before my annual check on the first one!! Talk about sods law. Tiny thing too. Ultrasound showed group of cysts, but consultant was suspicious and conscientious. Turned out it was lying underneath these and needle biop showed positive or should that be negative for nasties! That's sweet of you with your praises, but I've only been posting on the Forum since 2014. Wished I'd known about it back then for mine. It's an absolute godsend.    Let us know how you are, flower. I was going to say, hope you're getting some spoiling from family and friends, but of course limited contact, silly Delly!! Has your husband gone back onto chef duty again? 😉   👍 ❣️   Lots of love and a big hug Doolally x x x x ... View more

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Hi Mummies Grumpy and Wonks   Hope you're both okay, are you? Your Joey's not daft is he!! I'd want a treat too if I had to have drops put in my eye. Hope the gunk (sorry) clears soon. Wonks - Awww to your new little friend. Wonder where he's come from then? Wonder if he's chipped do you think. Are your two divas both okay. Your boy diva's bladder fully recovered now? (Am I remembering rightly it having been his bladder?)   Am missing mine (sniff sniff). Cuddles. This house is on an terribly busy main road - not really safe for a younger cat. Chloe was an elderly lady of 16 when I moved here and didn't jump up high fences or gates,  so was safe in the back garden for her final 3 yrs. I used to get paranoid about her ever getting out of the front door. I doubt I'd be allowed a rescue cat on this road?   Stay safe girls xxxx    ... View more

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