The good and the bad

Hi peeps

I have recently been diagnosed with breast cancer. Taking the excellent advice on this website I pretty much started by taking it one day at a time. This does indeed help. 

I thought to share the good and the bad and would love to hear anyone else's should they wish to share.

Today I had both a good and a bad moment. I received 2 letters in the post.

The first was from the hosp confirming my op date (my bad moment) cos my stomach dropped and I had that now familiar feeling of anxiousness take hold for a moment but shook it off cos I know it is needed. 

The good - my 2nd letter - as if... a tax rebate - boom  . Not half put a much needed smile on my face . Reckon a my treat family meal is in order.

Eeee it's the little things ain't it. 

Take care peeps 

Sandra x ️X

 

  •  Oh that’s great ! I remember mine took me like two weeks for her to sleep through the night. That’s awesome

  • A bit of an emotionally draining day today

    The Bad

    Had a panic attack today when i was having my can ulnar fitted ready for my scan so they have postponed it to Friday

    The good

    I had a lovely lady contact me as she has a real hair wig identical to my natural hair that she is sending to me.  Some people really are wonderful!

    I hope everyone has found a little good today

    x

  • Morning rach

    bless it surprises me more that we all don’t have a panic attacks throughout the the whole process....so don’t b hard on yourself about it. Hope all goes well on Friday. 

    What a lovely lady to send u the wig. Dizzel looks lovely in hers :-)

    deep breaths lass u can do this x

  • Bless I just bet it was hard for u ️

    Hope your staff member is moving on to bigger nd better things. X

  • Liliana is tomorrow your last RT .....  eee the excitement. X

  • Morning peeps 

    the good :- aw bless that’s lil one number 2 in Apple class 3 yrs old nd in a school uniform...bless her heart. I took her in she took off her own coat hung it on her peg went through picked the leaf up with her name on it nd hung it on the tree. Reached up gave me a kiss nd a cuddle-said you can go now gran :’-(

    The bad :- What a sad looking group of mams, dads, grans and grandads we all looked waiting t cross the crossing as we left. No extra walk, park, leaf collecting etc for me today...oh well book conservatory nd a coffee.... not all bad then lol.

    have as good s day as you can peeps. X

  • Thank you Sandra, fingers crossed for tomorrow, I will be stronger!

    She does look great, it gives me the confidence to wear mine

    practicing my breathing :-)  x

     

  • Afternoon.

    BAD

    I’m very upset. And very cross this morning. I had my medical screening declaration from my travel insures after they accepted the cancer and brachytherapy when we phoned. It was all wrong. They’d itemised both endometrial cancer and uterine cancer but no brachytherapy. So I rang them. Upshot is they won’t insure me because of the brachytherapy. They did say they would listen to the phone call and if we’d declared the brachytherapy they would honour it for the one trip, When they rang back they told me that hubby had mentioned brachytherapy but because he had said it was follow up treatment and not an additional treatment they would not honour the insurance, They would still cover me for everything else but suggested I go somewhere.else for the cancer cover. I’ve looked into it. It’s going to cost me £1000 for one trip if I take it out now but if I wait until 3/10 the day after last brachytherapy session it will be £250. I’m just so upset. It’s taken the shine off my holiday and I feel as if I’m being punished. I wouldn’t have booked the holiday if they’d told me they wouldn’t cover me. Any suggestions?

    Good

    None at the moment. I’m sure I’ll think of some later

    Sundial

     

  • Wow!!! Yes it’s really exciting. But I have been so busy with work that I really haven’t had time to think about it that much. Get up in the morning get ready go have my radiation therapy and go to the office do my thing at work I also run an Airbnb so some days I don’t even have time to eat properly,  but what I am not looking forward is to the hormone therapy or see how I react to it and what side effects I get if I get any because I already have rheumatoid arthritis so hopefully that will make my pain even bigger . I am sending good vibes to everyone I have an out time to read all the updates but I will as soon as I have a minute  but I want all of you girls to know that I have not forgotten you and I’m sending hugs to everyone have a great day !!!!

     

    Liliana

  • Oh no. No wonder u are angry... don’t blame u bless.

    jbains might have some pearls of wisdom ( she has just been to the states nd it is notoriously touchy  about hol insurance for there with chronic illnesses let alone a cancer one). Fingers crossed she can advise a bit.

    Try not to let it take the shine off yr hols... at the very least u can wait till they say nd ring them back then. Good job u checked mind x