Hi Julie,

What you did sounds great.  I can't do anything on Facebook yet as my two youngest nieces are mid-exams and I have their older sister as a Facebook friend.  They were all adopted (half-sisters biologically) and I saw a lot of them growing up so even though I'm far away now they phone me and text and stuff.

My bio-son (as I call him, he's my identical twin's son) is too young to understand thankfully.  Unfortunately it turns out my twin hadn't quite caught what I was saying and thought that because the biopsy was back we still weren't sure it was actually cancer (phone connections from my island to hers and not great) so I've had to re-tell her this morning and that wasn't fun, but hopefully it will jolt her into starting to get screened early.  She was going to put it off cause she's still breastfeeding, but he's past the age where it makes any real difference and, even if he wasn't, it's better that he has a mum!

As soon as my nieces know I'll do a post on Facebook about checking because what drew my attention wasn't even a dimple, the dimple hadn't formed yet, it was a weirdly ever so slightly flatter bit where the other boob still curved, and I could only see it at a certain angle.  Even now it's almost imperceptible and I have no doubt that my being a mathematician and hatred of non-symmetry is why it caught my eye.  So I'd be telling women not even just to look for dimples but to be aware if a bit is even fractionally less curved than on their other boob.  Feel free to tell people on Facebook about my slightly 'flatter bit'.  I cannot stress how close to not being visible it is but it is there and it is presumably the start of the dimpling.

Great to see you've got fight in you, you'll kick it's nasty little behind!!!!

I'm a stubborn cow, I've had constant pain since 13 from both endometriosis and arthritis, I've had classic (spinal) shingles, I get hemiplegic migraines and now have a lesion on my brain stem from them, and for the last three years I've been getting ice pick headaches, throw in stage 3 hypertension and more than two decades of Bipolar, plus other things and I'm certainly not going to let cancer be the one that takes me.  Always find it weird when I write down my condiitons, I mean I barely miss a day of work, I have a good social life, I get out and about and do lots of things, I'm pretty much always happy and singing away to myself, yet the list makes me sound like 'an ill person' :D  I don't plan on changing now.

Mind you, I'm not superwoman, if I get the common cold I totally want my mummy :D and I drive my husband up the wall wanting sympathy.  Never with the serious stuff though.

Better go, got Dara O'Briain tonight :cool:

Have a great weekend.

LJx

Have a look at Sandra123’’s Thread the good and the bad. The hospital she had her op done at had the option of a local and you could even watch it on screen if you wanted to!