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

 

  • Morning peeps 

    great news mrsfingers & lilianna :-)

    good luck for today mrsfingers and WQ for Wednesday. I know both of u will b worried but all a means to an end... yes I know it’s easy to say bless ️

    Well envious sundial... think we will go for a spar break in November/December then looking perhaps in March. The pup is looking sooo cute :-)

    the bad :- non yay

    the good :- plan - walk to collect sticks with lil ones then pumpkin carving ( gonna stick the sticks in them... we think lol. I am lucky to b able to do this with my grandchildren ️

    Have as good a day as u can peeps x

  • The Good- hearing good news on this thread!  

     

    The bad- apart from pouring with rain nothing! 

     

  • Love your plan for the day Sandra123! I’ve taken the decision to have voluntary severance and will stop work 31 July next year, so I’ll soon have more time for walks in the woods, crochet, making music, etc.

    the good: thinking and planning the future

    the bad: the ongoing worry in the background that maybe it won’t go as well as we hope.

     

    but I’ll just keep keeping on :)

     

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    Hi Liliana,

    I am so sorry to hear about your friend. This must have come as quite a shock to you, even though you knew that he wasn't well.

    However, I am delighted to read your own good news and hope that you will continue to keep well. The one thing about having a cancer diagnosis is that the fear of recurrence or spread lives on with us forever.

    Just check yourself regularly and contact the clinic immediately if you feel any change. That having been said, six monthly reviews should pick up anything untoward, possibly before you do.

    How are you coping with being back at work? It sounds as if you are having a busy time. Don't overdo things.

    Kind regards,

    Jolamine xx

  • Ah that’s brill u will not look back :-) 

    lots of u time doing whatever u fancy can’t beat it .

    Yes it is always there in the background... the niggling doubts with us being extra sensitive when we are due checkups. 

    All the more reason to grab life with both hands nd wring every moment of joy from it. 

    Roll on till yr retirement ... it will b here before u know it :-) x

  • Not long back in the house from looking after the lil ones :-) we did go for walk nd the lil ones did their pumpkin ( no idea how on earth we used to manage to carve a turnip lol ). Anywhose meet Blip and Blop .... the lil ones done good :-) 

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  • Wow they are good!! Well done! X

  • Blipping marvellous and blopping great!

    Sundial

  • Hi sandra123 

    My Aunty showed me that you’d mentioned me I’m sorry I haven’t been on here in such a long time 

    I was told in May the cancer was more progressed than first thought so I started chemotherapy on the 17th May

    during this time my father became critically unwell and was cared for and fought for 51 days in critical care he lost the fight on the 13th June the day of my second chemotherapy it devastated us as a family 

    so the year we had planned was tragically very different 

    I completed chemotherapy on the 5th sept had my last operation on the 4th October due to start radiotherapy in November 

    so unfortunately I’ve no wedding photos to share

    we hope to get married next year of the year after 

    I hope you are keeping well xxx

  • Hi sunshine 

    so sorry to read about how things have been going for u bless. Glad u have come out of the other end of chemotherapy ( dizzel recently finished hers nd mrsfingers started hers yesterday). The radiotherapy will b yr last step - hopefully done nd dusted for Christmas.

    life can often side swipe us from time to time guess there is never a good way to get through these side swipes so we always just do our best.

    So sorry t read u lost yr dad too. We believe our parents are invincible and it’s devastating to have to come to terms with the realisation they are not. 

    Hang in there lass. Try when looking back to not think of everything that has gone wrong but more what u have stared down and successfully gotten through. 

    Sending you my sincerest of best wishes...You rock sunshine. X