Hi ladies

I just want to wish you all a Happy and as Healthy a New Year as possible - bring on 2012.

Its good to drop in and see what others are up to - scan and more treatment (fingers crossed!) in January for me.

Best wishes

Sue x

Hello everybody, may I join you and introduce myself?  I opened a new thread on this subject the other day in the "introduce yourself" section, but I really wanted to get onto this site.  I  am 67 yo and live in Essex, UK and have recently been diagnosed as having tumours on both ovaries, plus some areas on the omentum and outer bowel.  However, my hospital MDT  wants to ascertain whether my ovaries are the primary site or secondary to breast ca I had 15 years ago before planning my treatment, so I've just had a biopsy and await results on 22nd Feb.  I found your site about a month ago and was both heartened by all your posts, and at the same time scared - not of the treatment particularly but the outcome.  Some days I feel that I won't get through this, other days I think "No, you won't get me, you (expletive deleted!)"

The last post on your site was 28th Dec, I have been checking, so I hope you are all getting along OK

Best wishes, Hazel. X

Jackie, I'll be thinking of you tomorrow, if I'd had to go anywhere feeling as I've been feeling for last 4/5 days I don't know what I'd have done!   Hope you manage to get through it OK.  Have you got to drink the large flask of radioactive muck (or whatever it is) ?  Oh my god, poor you!

I am beginning to recover now, thank goodness, but was beginning to think sickness and cramps would never go.

Take care,

love Hazel xxx

John,

Oh, poor Mary, I SO know the feeling - as do most of us on here, no doubt.  But, I know I've said it before, and I'm going to say it again, she is so lucky to have you, John!   Please give her my love, and I hope the charcoal does the trick for her.

Love Hazel xxx

Hi,

It is strange how we are all full of wind this time around. I am because of the laxatives. I always have peppermint cordial in the house and have that with hot boiled water, it does the trick everytime.

Jackie I feel so sorry for you having to sit around there half the day as Hazel says drinking that muck.. We are just not up to getting dressed and going out, well I know I am not. One my clothes are so uncomfortable with my tummy swollen and I think what is the point when I am not going anywhere....

Good luck anyway and I will be thinking of you.......

Love always Eileen xxxx

Hi All

Fortunately feeling much better this morning so CT not feeling so problematic! yes i do have the stuff to drink, I've always quite liked it before lol thou never had it so close to chemo and taste is vile at the mo lol. As I am feeling better think I may be able to drive that far which means much less hanging around, my friend has a meeting due to finish at 3.30 and is going to phone me to see if I still feel up to it. She was going to pick me up at 12! that would have left me at the hosp for around 71/2 hours, would probably have been ok but can't find charger for Kindel!!! would prefer to drive myself as its less restrictive but will see how it goes.

John, have never tried the charcoal but have been living on peppermint caps! never had this problem till this time round and could do without it thanks very much! its at best most unpleasant and certainly leaves you feeling not to know what to do for the best. However so far today it is gone!!!!!!

Eileen clothes are not a problem for me as I don't have normal symptoms! abdo feels bloated with the wind pains but have no swelling or fluid therefore clothes fit ok (or would if I could stop putting on weight lol)

Haze - glad to hear you are coming out the other side, I had forgotten how nasty it makes you feel! my friend says my expectations this time are to high and I didn't feel any better last time, I just thought I did lol think she's probably right plus the boast from the steroids on Fri and Sat did make me feel better so I expected it to continue which of course it didn't lol

Take care all

Jackie

xx

Hi Jackie, Hope your day was OK after all.  Glad you're feeling better, it's such a relief isn't it?  I am fine today, just my usual heavy bellyache which I've grown used to, sort of, and have been shopping in the sunshine - a treat to get out after being stuck inside for days.

Eileen, poor thing, don't reckon you get much chance to do anything in between tortures, do you?!  Hope you are a bit better anyway, bless you.

Lots of love, Hazel xxx

Dear Hazel,

What a lovely lady you are xxx

You remind me of Dot always thinking about everyone else. I know we all do but you really make the effort to keep popping on...

As you say I get to go nowhere only bathroom and back to bed, I was working out before and it's about 10 weeks since I started to feel ill. If it's not the bowel it's something else. I must admit though once your bowel kicks off you can't go or do anything. At the moment it burns everytime I go for a you know what so I am full of sudocrem.. I just hope I feel better for my next chemo..

Hope today was ok for you Jackie..... Love to all .

Love always Eileen xxxxx

Ooh-er, perhaps I've been popping on too much and getting on everyone's nerves!  I can just imagine you all going "Not HER again, for goodness' sake!"

Got me worried now, Eileen!

Lots of love,

Hazel xxx

Hi Hazel,

Please don't think you are posting too much, that is what this forum is for, and everyone's input is important to somebody or everybody at some time. I certainly find it reasuring to know that what Mary is experiencing is very similar to everyone else here, it makes me realise that the symptoms are not unique to her and puts our minds at ease. I am more concerned when people are not posting, because I know they are probably not feeling well enough to do so. Thanks again for your kind words but I also feel I am lucky to have Mary, she is a wonderful  woman who has had so much to deal with in her life, the least I can do is support her.

It's a bit of a roller coater at the moment for some of us, Mary too felt quite good yesterday and actually rang me at work with a shopping list as she wanted to make a recipe that she saw on TV. It was a chicken and vegtable pie and it was lovely! First bit of cooking she's done for a while.

Jackie, hope all went well with the scan

Best wishes to everyone,

John

x

Oh, John, what a nice man you are!  Like you, I get worried if we don't hear from someone, but I have to say that even I sometimes think I'm jabbering on too much when I scroll down the messages and keep seeing my own ugly mug!  I just like to wish people well when they are down and are having nasties done - that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!

Good for Mary -  I bet she was so pleased to be able to do something normal, glad you enjoyed her pie!

Love Hazel xxx

Hi, Eileen,

Now see what you've done - made me neurotic!

Seriously though, I know you meant what you said and I take it as a compliment really, thanks!  

Maybe Dot and I are alike because we are the same age, the two old ladies on here (as opposed to stuck in the lavatory, though sometimes I am).

Wish you luck for the weekend, that will take you halfway, won't it?

Lots of love,

Hazel xxx

Hi, Eileen,

Now see what you've done - made me neurotic!

Seriously though, I know you meant what you said and I take it as a compliment really, thanks!  

Maybe Dot and I are alike because we are the same age, the two old ladies on here (as opposed to stuck in the lavatory, though sometimes I am).

Wish you luck for the weekend, that will take you halfway, won't it?

Lots of love,

Hazel xxx

Hazel,

You are not only lovely but funny as well. I think having you in the group is a breath of fresh air ( I really do )  I would like to say to anyone who is thinking of joining us then please do as it brightens up our days hearing from different people from all walks of life.

I have to leave my bed today for the hospital and as you know I stay over tonight. I will post tomor at some point.

Oh I booked a week in Dorset week starting 26th May it looks lovely and the owner sent me a really nice e-mail today to confirm he had received the deposit. I had told him that hopefully I would be ok by then and that I was having treatment. He wished me well and said he knows only to well the long hard rd I have tp travel. So fingers crossed I will eventually get my holiday..

Love to everyone.

Eileen xxxx

Dear Eileen,

Thank you!

Great news re the holiday, something nice to look forward to, pleased you decided to book it. 

Hang on in there for next few days!

H xxx

Hi All

It went fine yesterday, drove myself so was only gone for around 3 hours. The only problem I had was the contrast, shall we say it rather upset my already fragile tummy!!! anyway seems to have settled now (fingers crossed!)

Eileen - glad you booked the holiday it will give you something to look forward to which, as you have such a hard time with chemo, I suspect you need!

really tired today and have achieved absolutely nothing (yet again!)

Keep fighting folks!

Jackie xx

Hello, Jackie,

Glad you had a better day than anticipated with the CT appointment, apart from the contrast stuff!   Hope your stomach is a bit better as well - have a good rest for a while, why not?!

I have managed to do my back garden today - mowed grass and generally tidied up, and feel quite pleased with myself!  I left the front, didn't want to push my luck too far, though I feel pretty well at the moment.  Maybe tomorrow if weather not too bad.

Love as ever,  Hazel xxx

Hi All

Nice to see that everyone is keeping their spirits up whatever they are going through, and some of it sounds pretty unpleasant!

Neutraphylls were up to 2.1 so just had 2nd chemo this week - Carbo/Gem - not had the best few days but think I'm coming round now, just wish I could get out in the garden while the sun is shining but everything feels such an effort! Ah well there'll be other weekends I guess.

Love to you all Sue x x x

Hi Everyone Happy mothers day to all you lovely moms out there

take care sharon xxx

Hello, Sue,

Course there'll be other weekends, and lots of them, God willing!

Hope you'll feel better soon, nothing lasts forever - though I must admit I was beginning to wonder myself last week when I felt bad!

Chin up,

love Hazel xxx

Message was edited by: haze44

Hi Sue,

I feel the same wanting to get out in the sun, at least we can see it shining through the window. I hope you start to book up a bit in next few days.

My bowels are back to normal ( well as normal as they can be ) I have slept really good for 2 nights now which makes such a difference. I am still a bit nausea's but nothing like I was. I have a 2 week break now from my chemo and then another 3 to go.

Good  your nuetrophyls are up. mine have been ok up  to now ...

Love to everyone.

Eileen xxxxx

Hello, Sue,

How are you doing, not heard for a while.  Hope all is well and you've managed to get out in the sun while it lasted!

I am suffering the 4th day of post-chemo horrors, hope to be better some time tomorrow!

Good luck,

Love Hazel xxx