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

Hi everyone, I know I am not writing much but I do try to read the posts, I sometimes just don't know what to say.

Eileen I feel so much for you having this nausea it is an awful thing to have to tolerate, I just hope it will settle soon and you can have some peace.

I wanted to say that I feel very sad that Carole (Dizzie) passed away, she fought hard and long, I have been following her blog along with Tony and our dear Rose, my thoughts go out to her lovely family, Carole helped a lot of people on this site and was much loved. This made me think of Jayne and her lovely family too. I have to say I avoided checking her blog and the main site this week as I didn't want to read what I knew I would find.

Thinking of you all

Dot xxxxxxxxxxx

Just kidding Hazel although my post was quite long looking back, thought it may have made everyone sleepy. Pre-assessment done and ok, we have an 8.30 start tomorrow, onc, port and chemo, all day job! Mary still feeling good.

Best wishes,

John

Dear Dot,

I didn't know any of the people you mention, though I have read bits of their stories on here and elsewhere, and I would just like to send my condolences and sympathy to all their families and friends. 

God bless and love to them all, and to you, Dot.

Hazel xxx

Hi Eileen,

Ask your doctor if you can try some different anti-sickness tabs, worked for Mary.

John

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Hi John,

These are the new ones. It is the cistplaten that makes you sicker than the other chemo's..

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Eileen, it's so awful feeling sick like that.  I found that pure root ginger capsules used to make a "tea" helped me last week (the pack says you can use them like that). Not the best of drinks, but manageable with a bit of sugar, and worth it if it works, and you only need to have one cup with luck. I got the capsules in Holland and Barrett.

Hope they help!

Lots of love,

Hazel xxxx

Hi Dot,

I am very sorry to hear the news about Carole (Dizzie), she was very active on the forum (1400 posts!) and I'm sure most of us must have been involved in a few discussions with her. My most memorable was when she told me about the meaning of her user name "Dizzie" on This Thread, very amusing, have a read.

Always very sad to hear news like this, my thoughts are with her family.

John

Hi Eileen,

It may be worth asking again to try something else as there are various anti-sickness tablets available and different people respond better to certain types (according to Mary's nurse), just as everyone may respond differently to types of chemo or anything else. Mary notices that when she delays taking her Metoclopramide tablet, she starts to feel the nausea coming back, but taking another tablet straight away seems to sort her out. I can't offer any more advice than that, it can't make you feel any worse experimenting.

Hope you feel better soon,

John

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Hello, Eileen

How are you?  Hope you are feeling a bit better. xxx

Well, the deed is done - I have chopped off the hair as it was beginning to come out in handfuls (already, only 2 weeks!).

The wigs and scarves are now in use, hence my new avatar.

Hope everyone is bearing up,  lots of love to all,

Hazel xxx

Hi Hazel,

Love the new avatar, as I said before the new wig makes you look younger. Very brave attacking the hair, I know it's a difficult thing to do.

Mary had her port fitted and chemo yesterday, we were home by 4.30 but she'd had so many meds she was away with the fairies! I had to help her to the loo in the night, when I brought her back she was trying to get into my side of the bed! Totally zapped!! She is fine again today apart from feeling like she's taken a bullet in her chest, been pottering in the garden again. I have booked a hotel saturday night so we can spend the weekend in Bournemouth, providing she is still feeling ok, it will be great to get away.

Hope everyone else feels better soon, I do get concerned when it goes quiet but I understand how you must feel.

Best wishes,

John

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Hi Hazel,

Love the new avatar, as I said before the new wig makes you look younger. Very brave attacking the hair, I know it's a difficult thing to do.

Mary had her port fitted and chemo yesterday, we were home by 4.30 but she'd had so many meds she was away with the fairies! I had to help her to the loo in the night, when I brought her back she was trying to get into my side of the bed! Totally zapped!! She is fine again today apart from feeling like she's taken a bullet in her chest, been pottering in the garden again. I have booked a hotel saturday night so we can spend the weekend in Bournemouth, providing she is still feeling ok, it will be great to get away.

Hope everyone else feels better soon, I do get concerned when it goes quiet but I understand how you must feel.

Best wishes,

John

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Thanks, John.

Poor Mary - why was she so zapped, did she have to have a general anaesthetic for insertion of the port?  Hope the pain has abated now.

I did my gardening again yesterday as well, great minds think alike!

Well, looks like you've picked the right weekend for a trip to Bournemouth, John, weather looks set fair, so you have a lovely time both of you - I am quite jealous!

Love to both,

Hazel xxx

Hi Hazel,

No it was a local anaesthetic but she had quite a lot I think, and it was the pre-meds for the op, then the pre-meds for the chemo, then the chemo itself.

She's fine now, texted me a little while ago saying she's done a bit more gardening and now she's sitting in the pub garden having a drink with our son! Lovely life eh? LOL

Best wishes,

John

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Well done Mary, good for her! 

Enjoy your weekend!

Love, Hazel xxx

Hello, John,

Hope you enjoyed Bournemouth.

Is Mary due another chemo session today?  If so, wish her good luck from me xxx

To anybody else having treatment this week, as I am, or awaiting results etc, hope all goes well.

Everyone else, hope you are feeling as well as poss and able to enjoy the lovely weather.

Love to all, Hazel xxx

Dear Hazel,

Good luck with your results, when do you get them ? I have my chemo again tomor after a weeks break. It is my 4th so not many left now. Then the dreaded scan and results.

Hope Jaxkie you are doing ok after your chemo ( you are lying low so prob not too good )

Weather has been great but it was only yesterday that I actually went out and that was to my daughters for half an hour.

Love to everyone else. xxxxxx

Hello, Eileen,

I guessed you were still not too good ( maybe same as Jackie, as you say), but glad you were able to have a little trip yesterday at least.

I am having 2nd chemo session tomorrow, blood result permitting.  I'll think of you having yours while I'm having mine!  Good luck!

Love Hazel xxx

Hi Hazel and Eileen,

Yes we had a lovely sunny weekend in Bournemouth, Mary said it's just what the doctor ordered and she is still feeling pretty good. We stayed 2 nights and came back on Monday.

Mary's chemo is tomorrow too, so that's three of you. It was only Weds last week because she had the port fitted and had to go on the ward rather than the chemo suite. Next week she has a break.

It has been very quiet on here lately, I hope everyone will be feeling a bit better soon.

Best wishes,

John

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Hi Everyone hope your all doin ok lovely weather were having makes you feel better dont it!.

well results day tomorrow for me ive got everything crossed! just been sitting here thinking

as you do i no most of us have had more then one session of chemo but how much can

we have? or is that a stupid thing to ask! im just thinking about my appointment and what

there gonna say. can you tell im a nervous wreck!!.speak to al soon

take care sharon. xxx

Hi Sharon,

I know exactly what you mean. I have 3 more chemo's then scan and results and I am worrying already. I feel for me that if this doesn't work then nothing will as it's the top one apparently. Plus I feel for myself that I don't want anymore of this feeling awful for months on end.  I know deep down that it isn't working and I am not being negative just realistic.

I will be thinking about you tomor and I pray it is good news.

Everyone else chemo day again so we will all be feeling rough over next few days....

Love Eileen. xxxx

Dearest Eileen,

I feel very upset for you, but I too am a realist, and can perfectly understand how you feel, even though I haven't been through half as much as you.  I've said this before, but after my breast ca treatment I swore I would never go through it again, and though I chickened out when it came to the crunch this time, I really do believe if I ever got too exhausted by the treatment to have any quality of life then I would stop it. 

I SO hope you are wrong and that you will get some benefit from this chemo regimen, Eileen, and that you WILL feel a bit better afterwards.  I am praying for you, darling.

I hope I haven't upset anybody, or made them lose hope - there's always hope, and of course there ARE ladies who have both quantity AND quality of life, we mustn't forget that!  This is just my personal opinion and we all have to make our own decisions about these things.

Love to all,

Hazel xxx