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Hello everyone on this dark, cold, wet and windy 14 November.  It's my birthday today and after 3 weeks of radiotherapy, all I want to do is spend it in bed!  I have 2 more weeks (plus 1 day as I missed a session) to go and am counting the hours as well as the days.  I feel more queasy now than I did with chemotherapy and so achy, shaky and, yes, a bit flaky at times.  I mentioned this, and asked some other questions, to the doctor this week who replied that she didn't know, hadn't heard of that before or just shrugged.  The good ol' shrug, eh?  Says a thousand words without opening your mouth.  So I came away none the wiser but I did manage to get a blood test out of them (lucky me).  So instead of celebrating my birthday with big fat cakes, I am going to have a cheese sandwich as I can't face goodies at the moment.  Does/has anyone else have/had this side effect with radiotherapy?  But I have decided that they won't beat me if I can help it at all.  So if it's good enough for the queen then it's good enough for me and I have decided to have 2 birthdays this year.  The one today and an official one in a few weeks time when I can, hopefully, make up for today.  You are all invited of course and I want you to wear your best dresses, best perfumes, full make-up and highest heels possible.  And the ladies can dress up as well if you want.  This thing does get us down and sometimes the treatment is worse than the disease and that is why I am so grateful to you all for making me feel part of a community who knows exactly what I'm going through, and cares.  Thank you all so very much.  My very best wishes to you all. 

Battlling Babe 

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  • I think it's normal I had radio and after the 3rd week I felt really sick and so so tired but after the course finished you do get better slowly , my radio finished 2 yrs this june , I am still not back to me but that's mainly because it was throat cancer and I can't eat solid food so lack a lot of energy , developing FM hasn't helped , I am trying not to let it get me down but it's really hard some days :( 

     

    hope this helps 

     

    josie

  • Hello Josie and thank you for your reply.

    I'm sorry you're still suffering after all this time.  It certainly is a very long journey we're going through, isn't it?  Like you I have bad days where I just ache all over and dose up on painkillers which knock me out but at least I don't feel the pain for a while.  On a lighter note, I was feeling sorry for myself, as I have to go to see my oncologist tomorrow, when the phone rang.  I answered it and it was the usual "cold call", this time asking me if I'd had an accident recently.  I replied that I hadn't, but they would if they phoned me again"  Of course with the way I feel at the moment, I couldn't intimidate anyone but they weren't to know that.

    Do take care Josie and, once again, thank you for replying.

    BB xx

     

  • Hi BB

    yes it is a long journey but today the sun was shining , even did a bit of gardening :) and found a new soup that has 500 calories in it so hooefully I will put on a bit of weight with every woman I know trying to lose weight think I'm the only person I know trying to get fatter lol, 

    Hope today as been a good day for you sending hugs :) 

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  • Hi BB

    yes it is a long journey but today the sun was shining , even did a bit of gardening :) and found a new soup that has 500 calories in it so hooefully I will put on a bit of weight with every woman I know trying to lose weight think I'm the only person I know trying to get fatter lol, 

    Hope today as been a good day for you sending hugs :) 

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