Don’t tell me… I’ve got you muddled up with someone else… Soooo sorry…
Rest lots, rest again, eat treats, repeat! Moira
2 Likes
You’re all amazing with your support and kind words. Moira, I couldn’t agree more! As it was my birthday when I was having the surgery, the “celebrations” were on hold.
Surgery happened Wednesday afternoon. Lumpectomy and 2 or 3 Lymph Nodes, to check if they are cancer free. Discharged 7pm that night, the prospect of a two hour drive home in torrential rain, didn’t fill me with glee. Husband reversed our bus and I struggled into the passenger seat, gingerly, as he put my motorised chair up the ramp and closed the back door. We drove home quietly, each wrapped in our own private thoughts. I slept fitfully, and turned over with difficulty through out the night.
Since getting out of bed, at home on Thursday, day after surgery, I have had so many texts, calls and visitors and most bearing gifts. All very lovely… I was up and dressed Thursday and carried on as normal, like any other day. Friday though, it all caught up with me and I slept through (with demon cat for company!) until 2.30pm. I didn’t dress and luxuriated in my dressing gown all evening. Unheard of for me…and it felt great!
My neighbour, who keeps hens, came with a dozen fresh eggs, daughter with a birthday cake she and the children made, plus chocolates and flowers, my (very elusive) brother and wife with a pot of miniature daffodils and chocolates. My sister and her husband came the evening after my discharge, complete with a bbq chicken, homemade soup and pastries. My poor husband was thrilled not to have to organise dinner that night. It was so thoughtful and so practical.
I did find it strange though, that my brother hasn’t seen me for two years, only found time to come and say hello under these circumstances. Still, it is nice to feel cared about. Everyone likes to feel wanted and needed, don’t they? So, happy days now. I feel good. It will be about three weeks before I know the results from Pathology, but I’m confident all will be well. Fingers crossed…
2 Likes
Hey Anne, I don’t know if you have! I ramble away with my writings when I get going. You may have been referring to my escapades with the cat on the stormy night. x
My word, sounds stressful. !!! Hugs.
1 Like
Struggling to type this because I have both my fingers and eyes crossed… thinking about you and hoping to all and anything that may be above us that it’s all good and you get a break! Love to you and yours xx
1 Like
Just an update for anyone who was reading.
Back to the city yesterday for pathology results and a wound check. The lump removed had a clear margin, which was good. It was grade 3 and it had got to the lymph node, which was removed. While I was there, the consultant surgeon also drained a fluid filled lump in my armpit which had been very uncomfortable. Not unusual he told me. I now have to go back on Thursday to see the Oncologist to discuss if there is a need for Chemo, because it had reached a node…
The consultant said, apparently if I hadn’t got MS, chemo would have been almost certain. As my immune system is suppressed already with the ms, it may not be considered. So I await to see the specialist Thursday. I have to add, at this stage I have had enough of needles and being pulled and prodded. I am bruised beyond belief and very, very tired. Five weeks of radiotherapy, daily(!) will be happening in a few weeks now. My poor boobs have never had so much attention, so much examining, so many pairs of eyes on them! Shame it hasn’t been an enjoyable experience!!
I am so glad, last July, I booked and paid for a break to the sun for February. I feel both of us need that to look forward to now. Radiotherapy begins after that.
Never, ever refuse or put off having a mammogram folks, and that includes you men! Mine would not have been discovered without one. ( . ) ( . )
1 Like
Poppy, dealing with all that stuff (sh*t is the word I am looking for) and still warning others; your great personality has not suffered then. I wish you all the strength that you will need.
1 Like
Poppy,
You might not be aware of it, but you do have a great sense of humour, despite all that you are going through, well, I think so, anyway.
Keep it up… A smile is far more rewarding than a frown…
Anne
PS. Love the boobs (.) (.) …Oh, clearly mine have sagged…
2 Likes
Hi Poppy I am so pleased that your treatment is moving forward and that you will soon be able to start crossing off the appointments on your calendar so that your life can move on. It is lovely that you have a holiday to look forward to as some relaxation in the sun will hopefully give you a boost and help with the next few weeks. Take care Sue x
1 Like
Hello Poppy, it’s great to read that everything is going according to plan. I believe that I had cancer in the first four or five lymph nodes which is no doubt why the surgeons were keen to do more operating. Strangely enough, my neurologist seemed to be very positive when I told him I had to have chemo for breast cancer, as he said that one of the three chemo chemicals they were going to use on me, is also used to treat MS. It’s weird how things turn out sometimes.
But thankfully, chemo, radio, Herceptin are all gone and I have my blonde hair back again. There is life after BC!
Moira
1 Like
Oh Anne, I have plenty of frowns too, believe me! My virtual boobs look better than the real ones right now. X
Jo and Sue. Thanks. Before I became a mortician, I worked in radiology for three years. It always shocked me to hear the number of women who wouldn’t have a mammogram because it was "too embarrassing "! Really. It was there I learned that males can get breast cancer too. Pay as much attention to your chest guys, as you do to that of the lady jiggling past you!
1 Like
Delighted to read this moira. Stupid as it sounds, I’m hoping I won’t need chemo. I have loved and cared for my thick, dark hair always. Of course losing it will be a small price to pay should I have to have it.
I am losing my hair from MS…
Anne 
A mammogram is nothing compared to a Smear Test…
Anne
Holiday, good thing to look forward to, I REALLY want to go somewhere on holiday this year (missed last year 'cause of house move). I’ve declined somewhat since we last went and think I need at new options and ideas. I’m over thinking all the problems, where are you going Poppy? maybe you can guide me.
x.
Thinking of you poppy
1 Like
Loulla, I’m going to gran Canaria again. Been going for years, both solo with hubby joining me at the end and now, always with him. We go to puerto mogan. Very pretty smallish village /town built around the beach, harbour and marina. Very laid back with a local feel. Not party central! All level and mainly pedestrianised. Check out trip advisor. Expensive in winter. Cheapest from April to end of September.
I’ll finish this thread with today’s news. I’m utterly exhausted. Spent a very long time with oncologist who talked at length about the chemo and the pros and cons of a course. With my MS she said it could likely cause further neurological complications and she didn’t want to do that. She took account of my mobility, or lack of it, and spoke of quality of life. The risk of re occurance is small and she’s confident radiotherapy, letrozole (femara ) and zoledronic acid (zometa ) infusion will do the job. I could only be guided by her. I would have done chemo if advised to but I’m relieved and happy not to have to. Next appointment is February now, to discuss radiotherapy and a start date for that. So looking forward to my holiday now, just to empty my head! !