hi im 36 mother of 3 n diagnosed dec 23. ive had 2 ops n 5 of 6 chemo n finding it very hard at mo. feel so peed off n cant get rid of that feeling. would love to chat. x
Hello ladies - nice to read your messages - can i join in too. I am 42 year old mum with 2 beautiful children - had 6 sessions of FEC and recentrly had a mastectomy and reconstruction. I was glad to have finished chemo (although have funny veins in hand and arm now and hair is growing back with colour totally gone - white or i prefer to say'strawberry blonde'. LOL . All in all I think, well i'm alive. I am currently waiting for next breast reduction and uplift(haha) on other boob.
Take care ladies and keep being strong, Regards....
just want to wish you good luck for last chemo. be thinking of you tomorrow. ive got that 'feeling' back n got right chemo head. cant wait to feel okish.
glad to hear you are doing well n near the other side of it. look forward to chatting once i start to resume normality n am not a 'zombie chemo head'. hopefully only a few more days.
Hi everyone hope you are all doing well. and welcome to fifi
Had my 4th treatment today but a new drug and got some scarf tying tipswhilst there which was a bonus!! Feeling ok but ready for feeling rough and like a couple of you have said the chemo brain
Thanks for your good wishes, I'm now counting the hours until tomorrow!! Had a wonderful nurse today at the hospice who, God bless her, managed to find a vein first time to get some blood.
Sorry to hear that you are not so good at the moment. Just think it's the drugs doing this to you and it won't be long before you will be feeling somewhere near normal.
Your son Dylan's little notes added obviously by him made me laugh, sounds like a good lad especially helping you with you typing.
I have been having a good laugh at some of the descriptions of how we see ourselves, we've now got Dopey from the Seven Dwarfs, pirate, Gypsy Rose Lee, pixie, Matt Lucas from Little Britain. What a right bunch we are
Hope you feel better soon so that you can have that much deserved holiday.
Hi Lonie just wondered how your doing and how many chemos you've had!!! How r the kids doing?
Wonderd if you had read my post about looking into help getting funding for a nursery its definitely worth a try! Don't know about everyone else but we are finding the fnance side of things a bit of a nightmare!! Going to see a welfare person to try to sort a few things out. If worse comes to worse will have to move into the garden shed like a family of gnomes. No its not that bad but seriously with everything else we have to deal with its the last thong you need hassle with and thedepartments we'v been dealing with have sent three letters out on the same day saying the same thing? Not doing much to save paper and seems a bit incompetent to me. We are going to a cancer support centre in Sheffield where we live and have been told the welfare people are experts so should be great help.
Anyway feel like i've been abit doom and gloom in my last few posts and would like to apologise just wish my mood would lighten a bit have laughed at yours and patricias posts though.
of course i read your post hun you lot keep me going through this. had charlys 2yr check today n shes gonna look into funding for us. wish we had done it 6 months ago. had some money put into my account as well but no letter saying what its for as yet. must be disability living allowance which citizen ad told us we couldnt claim until i had been ill for at least three months, and had to be ill for a further three months after, but that if i was ok for one day, then i couldnt claim it! dont know how much i get but its helped. we have struggled since jan n still dont know if we have applied for all we can. macmillan helped us the most. its not nice telling the kids we cant afford things they need, bloody horrible. jon had back to work app at job center a few weeks back even though his job is being held n was told he would have to go for medical? they know situation just dont make sense. hope you find the help you need.
your little 1 crawling, how lovely i remember that. i was normal then. charly had a terrible 2s day yesterday, that was fun! like you last week had 2 sleep overs for boys 4 kids. that went ok though cos they all slept in the shed(bought it for boys to play in, take their mates to) put a mattress n telly there n they take ps3, perfect for them. my kids seem ok, dylans been going out more n liam hasnt had a fight for few weeks. know they worry about what if med dont work. they have a friend whose mum has different cancer n shes terminal poor soul. they talk to eachother etc but it must make them worry more. hows your tribe coping? it so unfair on the kids.
was pleased to hear its your 4th lot. i also think you made the right decision about your med, not that i know all about it. but options is a good thing n hopefully soon there will be bigger n better drugs available. had 6 of 6 last week. sooo glad its over. radio in 5 weeks for 5 weeks, which unfortunately takes us to summer hols. ******! i know its a short app but daily is not gonna be great for older boys. last chemo we had 10 hours at hospital! was there 3 hours before 1st med was given. had low blood n had to be checked before i could start. normally there for 7, 8 hours but that was a killer! i was having 4 lots of med, now i will only have 2 lots every 3 weeks til feb.
best go kids are home, chaos! wish my mind could cope with it all.
everyone seems to be in a better place this last few days, a bit more upbeat if thats possible when going through chemo. At the moment, I'm doing ok, went wig shopping with John last fri and to be honest a bit of a disappointment, I've put 1 aside in one shop and the other shop didnt stock any but I've chosen 4 from a magazine, but thats too difficult, they come tomorrow, so goodness knows what they'll look like, going into Glasgow on saturday to look at another shop. Got an appointment with Oncologist on thurs to find out when chemo is starting, breast nurse reckons 17th June, feeling a bit apprehensive about it all, still worried about the hair loss etc, but I know i should be happy that the tumour has been taken away and that it hasn't spread. Bored at the moment, tho my house is spotless lol, using this time off work to catch up on things i never do, prob wont be caring when chemo starts. Keep posting cause it makes my day. Love to you all. Col x
Well had my last chemo yesterday yeah!! Unfortunately didn't feel to good had to come home and go to bed at 2.00 p.m. woke up at 5.00 p.m. feeling nauseaous (God how I hate that side effect) took back up pills and had some soup then didn't move until this morning. Had to get up to take pills otherwise I don't think I would have moved. District nurse has just been to give me my neulasta injection, they say you can do it yourself but the thought gives me the shivers. Just got the radiotherapy to look forward to now, yipee!!
I'm so glad that I managed to cheer some of you up with my tales of misfortune.
Colly, no your not the only one, my sister and I seem to have inheritated this from our dad. He used to get upset when we laughed at his mishaps but they were sooo funny Hope you get your wig sorted and find the one you like. Housework, now I'm going to have to tell you off for using such a terrible word on such a lovely forum as this, it's just not on My motto is if you've got an excuse, use it. Although I have to admit to clearing out the odd cupboard that the back of hasn't seen the light of day in a long time. Right I'm off to wash my mouth out!!!!
Fifi321, anyone is welcome to join our gang, although wish it was under different circumstances. Strawberry blonde, like that. That's my new hair colour from now on, sounds a lot better than grey or white.
Loumack, I do thing it's deplorable that anyone suffering from a serious long term illness, be it cancer or anything else has to go searching and fighting for help financialy or otherwise. It seems to me that half the information is gleaned from other patients. It shouldn't be like this. I hope you manage to get things sorted soon. Can't bear to think of you living like gnomes in the shed at the bottom of the garden, although your kids might think it's fun just like Leonie's.
I found quite a few tips on the internet on different ways of tying scarfs which were inspiring.
Leonie, it isn't easy, in fact it sucks, telling your kids they can't have some thing. I've been there when I had no job and just separated from my husband. We've shared McDonald's before now Even went to black and white tv cause I couldn't afford a colour licence. Sometimes it has to be done but I sat the kids down and explained it to them and God love em, they understood. Just keep your chin up not long now.
Well done Patricia,Hope you start to feel better quickly now that you are no longer being poisoned.Hope you will be like me during radiotherapy,no side effects but I wish they would tattoo a dolphin or something instead of a black blob.They could aim for the dolphins eye.New research is using the radiotherapy during the op so perhaps future ladies will not have to have the 5 weeks.Good luck to you and all the ladies on here.I love reading all your blogs.
