Cancer Support Thread 97: support for those diagnosed and going through treatment

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Cancer support thread 97: support for those newly diagnosed and /or undergoing treatment…..
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Wow @TopOfTheCliff I'm blown away by you and your husband. What an amazing thing to do, and how life affirming.

@DanFmDorking I'm glad they managed to get your blood eventually even if it sounds like you were part of some sort of surreal Tarantino-esque movie scene to get it. Glad chemo is a go for tomorrow. What type are you going to have? Is it going to be weekly (like @cannaecookrisotto and I) or three weekly (which I believe is more common).

Glad the kidney testing went well @cannaecookrisotto and I hope the port fitting goes well today. Will they do today's chemo into it as soon as it's fitted or does there have to be a break? I hope the sedation is all you hope it will be
I didn't have a kidney function test - unless they did it while I was an inpatient maybe. Although my first lot of chemo was so fast I'm not sure they had time to do much in the way of preliminary testing.

Your car friend sounds like a nob - good for you ignoring her. Don't give them head space. On the other hand, your sister sounds great. My sister has been great too. She is a year into her BC wankery journey. She had a mastectomy last September, then chemo, then radio and is now on the anti-hormone. Like you her biggest tumour was large - one was over 10cm and the other not much smaller at 8cm but grade 2 as HER2 and +ve. The treatments have forced her through a really fast meno. She is never far from her hand held fan!

A skin care advent calendar is a great gift . You do sound like you have really good support around you. It just makes this crap heap a little easier to deal with.

Ah, parents. I am seeing mine at the weekend for my dad's birthday for the first time since my diagnosis. They aren't taking it well coming pretty much exactly a year after my sister's diagnosis. They are elderly and generally not coping with life well at the best of times, so this has knocked them into a tail spin. I think with parents there is always that underlying assumption that your child will outlive you.

I have liquid morphine @ForestFlowerFairy Just a low concentration that I take at bedtime which is supposed to both ease my breathing and act as a mild sedative and pain killer. Perhaps something similar might help you? I hope you managed to get some sleep, that radio goes well today and that they can give you some pain killers and sleeping tablets to help you

@dancingwhilstfacingthemusic so pleased to read your update. I hope the tiredness passes and you are able to continue to travel. Joining the gym and swimming is so positive, as it getting back to work. Just some normality in this abnormal world we are living in. All the best for your continued recovery.

I saw the GP yesterday and he's booked in my Flu jab and will do COVID a week after that. Crappy lung function and chemo mean that he doesn't want to do them at the same time. He's also given me a sick note which basically says I can work when I like. I would have killed for a note like that when I was at school - it's basically a "Let Ventress do what she likes when she likes" note. I may frame it Off to the hospital later for my weekly pre-chemo blood test. DH is going out tonight with a work friend whose wife is a BC survivor. I'm pleased he's going to get the chance to talk about this. It's hit him very hard (not helped that his mum died of breast and secondary liver cancer when he was 12 years old so there are all those old feelings being stirred up too).

@Ventress it is great when the DH can go out with mates and let off steam. I realised early on mine would over share with all his pals and my medical adventures would be common knowledge but that is how he processes problems so resigned myself to it. He has been a star though and is forgiven a lot.
After my amazing adventure I came home on a high for my DDs wedding then had to acknowledge I had a tiny lump in my other breast. It was a second nasty BC so I had to start the cancer triathlon all over again. That’s why I’m still hanging about these threads having been in Cancer land for so long.
My tolerance of crappy friends is zero these days. Whatever the reasons, and there may be valid ones, if they can’t be kind they are off the list!

I feel a fraud now

results post surgery all good
and I’m fit to fly on our special trip
leaving later today.
With wheelchair assistance at both airports, the special hospital socks, and strict instructions not to drink alcohol onboard. In the lounge is fine though, right?

still many appointments to have for post op totally random complications to other body parts, and to resolve what sent me to the doctors in the first place.

wishing you all successful treatment, and I hope not to be back here soon. And for all of you too not to be back here soon either.

I am however doing a sponsored thing for cancer which is pushing me outside my comfort zone. Way outside, for me - the usual coach potato.

@cannaecookrisotto I hope your port insertion goes/went well. Enjoy the sedation! You get to be sedated again when they remove the port 😁 I know it feels like a never ending road, this time last year I was 2 chemos down, with 14 to go. But here I am, practically finished my Herceptin jabs (eighteenth of eighteen next week), chemo, surgery and radiotherapy all done. Wishing you all well

My post-cancer life is not as impressive as @TopOfTheCliff - but I'm going to all the films I want, and exhibitions. Have been booking various theatre trips. Joined a choir. That's the way my interests lean!! Oh and various weekends away have been lovely.

@cannaecookrisotto ... I’ll be snorting the bathroom cleaner at the end of all this - hee, hee - you're as mad as I am😜- good luck with the Port today 🙂

@Ventress ... what type are you going to have? - They did tell me but I can't remember - they've changed one of my drugs and the side effects of the new one aren't as bad - I'll see if I can find it in my notes.

... Is it going to be weekly - Nope, it's a two week cycle - Thurs, Chemo day, pump fitted, start feelin' tired - Fri, pretend everything's Ok - Sat, Chemo Pump removed - Monday lunchtime to Thursday lunchtime, the great 'steam train of tiredness' hits me, I'm semi comatose (no change there say my family) - late Thursday onwards, start getting my energy back - Monday, bloods, almost back to normal energy, - Tuesday, meet Oncologist to discuss bloods - Wednesday, either at the Gym for 2 hrs followed by a 10k run (sarcasm) or go to MacDonalds - Thursday, Chemo day - and repeat.

At a previous meeting with the Oncologist it was stressed that even when I'm semi comatose I must keep eating, even snacks, biscuits or chocolate because my body need the calories to gain strength for the Chemo - my quick mind jumped into action, "Can I have a prescription for chocolate and biscuits then?" - I got a grade 3 consultant stare.

(I've posted the last two paragraphs before - sorry)

I do realise I'm not suffering half as bad as you lot - tomorrows Chemo session will be number 4 of 6 - so I'm currently half way through.

Look after yourselves peeps.

@OhNoItsAdeno that sounds like a great result. Of course you aren’t a fraud you have been through the scary Cancer mill just like the rest of us. For some it is a short trip, for others a long one. Have a wonderful holiday and get well quickly.

@OhNoItsAdeno I second what @TopOfTheCliff says - the whole cancer thing sucks, I think myself fortunate my treatment is 'just 6 weeks' but when you think about the original tumor removal, the unknowingly and waiting for results - it's shit for everyone and I don't think there's anyone that has it easier - just a different type of crap and wankery.
I've had my 3rd chemo session, just 3 more to go and 20 radiotherapy sessions left....

I did ask to see the nurse today but they had no appointments but have wedged me in tomorrow at 4pm so hopefully I can get some pain relief if I can get some liquid morphine also @Ventress I won't say no! I don't see the point in struggling anymore I've done the best I can to this point but the discomfort and lack of sleep is taking its toll.

Late radiotherapy appointment tomorrow so I've the morning to chill

@DanFmDorking if you saw our food cupboards you'd think a toddler got hold of their parents credit card, it's full of chocolate, sweets and anything yummy. Although my main food of choice is marmite sandwiches or crushed pickled onion monster munch sandwiches, anything with a strong flavour - the dentist says no sugar, the dietician says just get calories. I've sided with the dietician 🤣

Lots of updates ❤️
Port fitting went very well, enjoyed the sedation, told them to bang it all in but unfortunately they were very sensible. I didn’t feel any pain, some tugging for about 30 seconds but in hindsight a local would have been perfectly manageable without the sedation. I counted that I’ve been poked with needles 11 times this week due to shit veins so I’m so relieved to have this magic blood plug.

@ForestFlowerFairy hope you managed to fall asleep not long after and get forty winks! Sorry to hear you’re getting pesky mouth ulcers. Have they given you anything like Difflam mouthwash? I have a shit taste in my mouth, like I’ve been licking the metal slide at my local park but so far no soreness touch wood 🪵. Some pottering sounds fab! I defo second getting on the pottery night end of November. I think it’s so important to have nice things to look forward to. I hear your pain about spending money on boring stuff like repairs and boilers. I have an 8 year old that is a consistent money drain as well. I seem to leak money on squishies and slime (that ends up stuck to my living room ceiling, that wasn’t fun trying to remove stood on my spinning office chair 😂). I saw my life flash before my eyes.

@VentressI do have great support I’m so lucky. My step mum is driving an hour tomorrow morning to help me get my eldest to school as DH is having his piles tied off (thank god as frankly I’m sick on hearing him moan about his piles and their daily movements). I’m sure your weekend with your parents will be lovely. My parents (although separated) have took it badly too. If my mum says “it should have been me” one more time I’ll throw slime on her living room ceiling.

They did my chemo 2 hours after port insertion and it was much better than blowing all my veins. The surgeon fella popped the needle thing in before he put the dressing on whilst the local was still working ready for the nurses, which was a nice touch! They said you usually have to wait 2 hours after fitting and sometimes can be 4 hours depending how you go. I said if 2 hours use port but if 4 hours we’ll have to find a vein otherwise I’d be there all night. I arrived at 07:00am and got home at 19:00. Was a looooongg day.

@OhNoItsAdeno no frauds in here! Excellent to hear of your post-surgery results and your special trip, have the best time! If you’re comfortable DMing me a link to your sponsored event I would love to sponsor you!

@BatshitCrazyWoman bring on the removal! The only thing that I’m finding a bit ick is when I touch the vein in my neck I can feel the line. DH said “don’t touch your vein then”. Twatty bollocks.
Cannot wait to be at the other end. It sounds trite but I’ve challenged myself with finding one good thing that I’m “grateful for” at the end of each day. I would have found this cheesy a month ago but it helps me stop feeling so sorry for myself. Today I am grateful for the ham and cheese panini I ate after the procedure when I was starving. I’m a simple person.

@DanFmDorking I got similar advice from my Oncologist. She said go and fill your boots with whatever food you want to eat. So I took it as a personal challenge and the steroids are making me ravenous at the minute.

Agree with everyone re no matter the length of treatment, a cancer diagnosis is a shit sandwich however you look at it. It’s scary and I think we all come through it carrying something that wasn’t there before, I don’t know how I’ll go back to being the same person I was before this. And that’s got nothing to do with my stage, type, location etc. That’s from simply hearing the words “you have cancer”. @TopOfTheCliff, your mental resolve to get through this twice and then sail round the country to boot is incredible. And you’ve sampled both hormone positive and TNBC. They do say variety is the spice of life!

I’ve just had a really thick 20 minutes.

Found crusty purple substance around port dressing. Was enjoying having a pick at it and ripping it off.

Ive just had a revelation that it’s the bloody skin glue!!! I vaguely remember the radiologist saying “I like to use a skin glue in addition to dissolvable stitches, it gives a pleasing scar” or something along these lines. And I’m just lay here in bed picking it off 🤦🏼‍♀️. Luckily I didn’t yet get cracking on anything under the dressing. Will teach me for being a picky picker pecker. Why didn’t he say this to me when I wasn’t off my kecks on sedation?!

Top tip for anyone having a port inserted- don’t sit enjoying picking the glue off holding your skin together.

@Ventress ... what type are you going to have? - Just found it - I'm getting FOLFIRI which is the name of a combination of cancer drugs.

folinic acid - also called leucovorin, calcium folinate or FA (foh-lin-ik ass-id)
fluorouracil - also called 5FU (floor-oh-yoor-uh-sil)
irinotecan (i-rin-o-te-can)

It is a treatment for a number of different cancer types.
Fluorouracil and irinotecan are chemotherapy drugs. They destroy quickly dividing cells, such as cancer cells.

Folinic acid is not a chemotherapy. But you often have it with fluorouracil to help it work better.

(Details from Cancer Research UK )

I’ll come back in a while to reply to updates, but just need to say - holy crap I’ve developed a sweet tooth! Never had one before but now I’m like the sugar monster on crack. I’m pleased to hear it’s not just me!

I hear you @cannaecookrisotto I was allergic to the Dermabond glue and after my first lumpectomy I had to pick it all out because it was causing an intense itchy rash. It was quite satisfying! Luckily I didn’t fall apart.

Everybody here knows that we don’t have a choice about cracking on with treatment if we want to survive. I was fucking FURIOUS when I realised my second cancer would mean going back to the start, do not pass go or collect £200. The rage propelled me through the first few rounds of chemo. I hated people telling me I was an inspiration when I really had no choice. Now I am getting better it is kind of cool and I am proud of myself that I managed it all without cracking up and kept my positivity and bad jokes going through all the hair loss, joint pain and general ghastliness. My DD told me to do it for my future grandchildren and the first one is due this month 🥰

@Ventress cake is special food for chemo patients and is necessary for survival in this house. Enjoy!

You should be proud @TopOfTheCliff - what you have done, and what you have had to go through, is inspirational. A new grandchild soon - how wonderful 😍

Certainly not a fraud @OhNoItsAdeno; I hope you have a fantastic special trip!

I hope today's chemo goes well @DanFmDorking, that the Folfiri et al, is less tiring and that they keep you topped up with biccies and cake. Half way through - yay! I would suggest that cake is an appropriate way to celebrate that milestone.

Good luck today with the radiotherapy and nurses appointment @ForestFlowerFairy - get all the good drugs you can please. As you say, absolutely no point in struggling.

Your post-cancer life sounds perfect to me @BatshitCrazyWoman . I was thinking earlier that I'm currently shovelling 20% of my income into my pension and for what? Why not live life for today and not tomorrow? So I think I'm going to reduce it and start looking at expensive holidays for next year.

So pleased the port fitting and chemo went well yesterday @cannaecookrisotto . Hopefully you are resting and not not picking the skin glue or trying to prise slime off the ceiling. My seventeen year old costs a fortune to maintain too - he managed to lose two (expensive) gum shields in the space of three days last week. And just keeping him in protein shakes and chicken thighs costs as much as the GDP of a small developing nation.

I have taken all you have all said about cake to heart and loaded my online shop with a selection of Mr Kipling's finest. And they will be mine, all mine. Anyone caught snaffling will pay the highest price 😱

Early chemo for me tomorrow, so probably won't be posting. Hope everyone has good, calm and pain free days to come. Best wishes 🍰

The nurse appointment went well - she was lovely, and has given me soluble cocodomal which I can put in my feeding tube or drink, Gelclair to help numb my mouth and laxido to help with the inevitable constipation.
I added 2 cocodomal to my water bottle on the drive home as they recommended having it an hour before trying to eat to get maximum benefit and within 20 minutes, whilst it didn't stop the pain, it stopped me caring about the pain.
I took more before bed and slept all the way to 4am!!! Result!!!!
I also think it may have reduced my tongue swelling slightly as I can actually close me teeth together now

Funny moment this week, (possibly TMI) weighed on Tuesday, dietician was glad I was maintaining weight, but I mentioned the chemo constipation and she's given me some fibre pouches to drink each day to help....I'm not sure if they helped quite as quickly as intended or if my body was like ENOUGH as my tummy gurgled all the way home, not a fun hours drive!!!!!
but they weighed me Wednesday (after I'd been) and I was a kg lighter than the day before 🫣 According to my husband I was quite literally full of shit 🤣

Another radiotherapy session today but a nice early ISH one so sister in law will leave this afternoon and we can have the house to ourselves this evening and over the weekend until my Dad arrives Monday for his turn being my chauffeur

@Ventress hope the chemo goes well
And we all go into the weekend defending our cakes, our sweets and most importantly the magical pain relief

@Ventress - my Chemo went well yesterday - slightly quicker than I expected - the best bit was I didn't have to take any drugs or Filgrastim injections home - really, really good news.

@ForestFlowerFairy - Crikey - sounds like you're having a really bad time - I'm sorry you have to go through that.

@cannaecookrisotto - Glad your Port fitting went well - apart from 'a little trouble' on Monday it's been a lot better for me.

@Ventress - how has did your Chemo go?

Evening gang of supportive pals!

I’ve been a sleepy bugger today. Slept crap last night (half steroids, half 6 month old with a cold bunged up so was poking her every 3 minutes).

Today is probs the first day since she was born when I’ve took the trotted out advice of “you sleep when they sleep”. Some serious sleepy cuddles going on.

@TopOfTheCliff I think furious would be my first emotion in your shoes as well. I’d be absolutely raging at the universe and its fuckery. I also say the same to my family when they prattle on about how well I’m coping. I don’t have a choice. I can’t stop working, I can’t just piss off to bed whenever I want and stop parenting my kids and neither can I stop treatment (if I know what’s good for me). So the show must go on.

Congrats on being a grandparent! Will you be a grandma or a nanna/nanny? My mum is nanny, at 55 she refused grandma. However my step mum (who has been my SM since I was 4) who is under 50 prefers grandma!

@Ventress hope chemo has gone well for you Ventress and you’re having minimal side effects. I’ve found staying very hydrated (at least 3L the day before, the day of and the day after) makes a massive difference. Must help flush it around. I pee like a horse like but apart from some occasional fatigue I’ve been very fortunate.

@ForestFlowerFairy glad your nurse appointment went well and amen for the cocodamol. I have the 30/500 for long term sciatica and they do work wonders. I laughed out loud at you being literally full of shit 😂. I can imagine an hours drive of panic and pinching 🤏 ha! Hope radio went well today and you’re enjoying some peace at home before the dad shift arrives ❤️.

@DanFmDorking
yeah those Filgrastim are Tossers. I don’t find they hurt but I just don’t like injecting myself. I’d rather do it though than delegate to DH, sadistic fucker would likely enjoy stabbing me daily. I think I have sufficient flab grabbage for the needle to just pop in. I find letting the alcohol rub dry for a good 30 seconds stops any stinging too.

Since starting taking a Loratadine each day, I’ve not had a single twinge of bone pain. Defo recommend these but anyone reading please do check with your team if they’re ok for you to take. I’ve also read some studies about Loratadine having improved survival in certain cancers 🤷🏼‍♀️. If anyone’s interested in reading I can post the link. They’re proper studies, not nutty ones.

I’ve been taking loratadine daily since my fun with filgrastim. I now take it partly to cope with the fuckery of my body’s reaction to anastrozole and also for the protective factor you mention for my cancer (hormone positive bc).

@dancingwhilstfacingthemusic did they help with your bone pain too?
Yeah the protective factor is a great bonus, for the sake of an extra tablet a day. I’m already chewing my way through what feels like half of a pharmacy every morning, what’s one more!

@cannaecookrisotto I have serious respect for you going through all this AND caring for a baby. It's good to hear you've been resting, I've given myself full permission to loaf when I need and potter when I have the energy.
Our puppy doesn't always agree, but she's easy to crate when she's too boisterous I suspect you'd raise a few eyebrows crating a 6 month old.
My daughter is coming home from uni Tuesday, for an orthodontist visit, I'm really excited to see her but a little nervous of her seeing me as we've been keeping messages back quite light - so I'm going to have to up my game if I've any chance if her going back.

My goals for the weekend include dragging OH to the garden centre for bulbs to plant over the coming weeks and get some comfy new bedding, proper brushed cotton for the colder nights. Both activities will reduce DH to a toddler like reaction but so far the 'cancer card' is working in my favour and I'm going to keep milking it, I'm far too tired to drive safely myself and the cocodomal has made me nicely spaced out, hopefully I can leave him in the car (I'll crack a window) and he won't be questioning the cost of everything!

@cannaecookrisotto from the discomfort I’m still in, I hope they’ve taken the edge off! Worth it for the protective factor.

I have a load of mates on letrozole and none of them have the bone pain to the extent I have, so I can only assume it was going to happen anyway (age) and the pills have made it worse.

Great that you don't need the drugs or filgrastim anymore @DanFmDorking - small wins on this lousy journey.

Like @ForestFlowerFairy, I'm in awe of you going through this with a baby and small child @cannaecookrisotto . I know that's it's not a choice and you just have to get on with dealing the (shitty) hand you've been given, but even so. How is your husband now?

I do drink lots of water - although it tastes metallic now (but then so does pretty much everything). I carry around one of those enormous water bottles that doubles as a weight training device. I have a weird FOMO of you all and your daily drug regimes. I take nothing at all. Even the chemo nurses seem surprised and always send me home with something - last week metoclopramide, this week laxatives. Both "just in case". It's like getting a party bag but without the slice of birthday cake (still cake obsessed). Although then I read your horrible reactions to the different drugs and change my mind.

You sound much brighter @ForestFlowerFairy I'm so glad they have given you the cocodamol, and losing 1Kg of body weight to poo - respect!

I hope you enjoy your weekend of quiet time and get to the garden centre, dragging your husband kicking and screaming if necessary. DH has the extreme audacity to offer to take me to Ikea last week. I could have thumped him. I've been trying to get him to come to Ikea with me for almost a year and I get fobbed off, but now I'm effectively housebound and can't go more than 4 steps without having to stop and get my breath back, the git offers to take me!

How old is your puppy? We lost our gorgeous girl back in June and I'm still so upset about it. The Pet Therapy woman and her lovely Springer Spaniel visited while I was an inpatient and I just cried at her for 10 minutes. I think it was the mix of cancer denial and still mourning my girl's loss, but pretty embarrassing really. I guess that's why they call it "therapy".

My chemo went well yesterday. Very tired afterwards as usual but I slept from 11pm until 6am and am feeling pretty good today.

I feel for you @Ventress , we lost 2 dogs in the space of 6 months, both to cancer of all things! Our spaniel the vets kept telling us it was arthritis, and it turned out to be pelvic cancer, we went from months of pain blocking injections, hydrotherapy to suddenly he was gone over the weekend, then our shepherd had lung cancer that spread to her brain. We had 6 months palliative care and honestly both were horrific, having time to say goodbye did not ease the pain. We lost her 2nd January.
Our new puppy is 8 months, we got her about 3 weeks before my diagnosis from the dogs trust and I feel so guilty, she was 4-5 months old (they aren't entirely sure, she was found in a skip estimated 7-8 weeks old) but had been at digs trust a couple of months as she's deaf and has mobility issues.
Whilst they were open about the physical disabilities they failed to mention food guarding and lead aggression....we have a marvellous trainer who comes to us at the house once a week to help us with her but with me being ill progress is slow, I worry so much were doing her a disservice - I think between losing our 2 dogs and having 2 miscarriages the last year we rushed into getting her and now I can't give her all the attention she needs with her additional issues, but there are times when she comes for a fuss, plops herself on my lap and the cuddles make everything go away. No idea what she is, they think Frenchie, with a bit of staffie, maybe even sharpei - every time I try adding a photo the page hangs, but I'll keep trying to pay the puppy tax!

Hello all. I stepped back whilst playing the long and excruciating waiting game.
Now have surgery date on 15th. Will catch up on how you are all doing.

Been trying to keep busy although shattered. Doing some shopping for post surgery bras etc.

@ForestFlowerFairy it’s a bloody challenge, like some days all I want to do is crawl to bed and lie there in my own misery and tiredness, but then she bops me on the head and sucks my nose reminding me she needs keeping alive and off I get back to it.

My parents have been great by helping me out on weekends, taking the kids out for the day so I can have some down time. It’s more the mental fatigue too of keeping up the constant “happy face”. I need time to moan and be miserable sometimes 😂.

I’d love a puppy but I already have a feral house with 2 kids, 2 cats and a bearded dragon (the oncologists eyes nearly popped out when she heard about Richard, told me to cease dragon cuddles immediately). Laughing at crating the 6 month old, I did say to mum I need a baby cage, she said “don’t you mean a playpen?”.

Bet your daughter can’t wait to see you too, how long is she staying for? Did you manage to get your bulbs and super comfy new bedding? Did DH recover from the cost? 😂.

@Ventress IKEA is my absolute worst hell. It’s like entering the twilight zone. I inevitably get lost, end up in the bit with all the shite and buy little plants and cushions. Never leave with what I originally went looking for either. Last time I came home with grill tongues 🤷🏼‍♀️.

@FcukBreastCancer lovely to hear from you and so glad you have a date for surgery! How are you feeling?

Oh goodness @ForestFlowerFairy, how awful for you. I’m so sorry for your losses 💐 Your puppy sounds like a handful, but they all come with their own personalities and challenges. You will get there with your new pup I’m sure. I would love to see a photo if you manage it!

I’d also like to see a photo of Richard please @cannaecookrisottoI know nothing about bearded dragons - does he have to have a terrarium or hot lamp of some sort?

Good to have the surgery date set @FcukBreastCancer. is it day surgery? They aren’t intending to keep you in I hope.

Your family sound so supportive @cannaecookrisotto, it’s great to have them to fall back on and to give you a break. I’m sure your parents are very glad to have the opportunity to look after their grandchildren. Having step parents means twice the support and love too 😊 I would love to have the opportunity to hate IKEA but I don’t get there often enough! We’ve had one in our nearest big town for about 5 years and I think I’ve been twice. DH only offered to go because he’s broken half of the glasses in the cupboard 🙄

I have a head cold. Typical. I assume I’m okay to have a lemsip? My nose is streaming but I really don’t want it to settle in my chest. We’re off to my parents today for my dad’s birthday. I hope I don’t give them my cold. I guess we could sit outside but that seems a little cruel to a couple of almost 80 year olds in October!

I hope all have a good day today and whatever you are doing it is pain free and not stressful.