**t*a*m*o*x*i*f*e*n** number 14

[MaryAnnSingleton]

here we go !

Oh smee I am sure you must be more buoyant....I bet no-one had ever asked him before, so he didn't really know the answer Did I miss whether you had the drains out?

Just had a letter in the post calling me for a sentinel node scan the day before the op.

Shook me a little as I wasn't expecting it. Says that the injection could be "uncomfortable". Spill the beans please ladies, is it painful? Is it a two paracetamol job or should I whack in the nurofen plus?

From memory it isn't painful at all. I think they just stick some radioactive stuff into the area with a little needle. Someone with a better memory will come along in a moment, but if it is the thing I think it is, you won't even need the paracetamol.

I'm not surprised you are having a wibble, it does make it all seem a bit real . But don't wibble about the pain, there is surprisingly little of that, when things go well (which they usually do)

Thanks for the reassurance, cakes. There's so much to come to terms with, it's good to hear peoples' experiences.

Never had a sentinel node scan dee , afraid I can't help with that one .

Tell me about it Topsy, I spent squillions on mine a few weeks ago

I really don't think I could have a smear done by the father of one of dd's friends, even if he WAS a doctor

@ some random man coming in and doing smear.. Have reported this trauma on facebook (as topsy & amber have seen) but now realise that the nurse is also on facebook (though not a friend on fb ) so am getting in a pickle about that
Sentinel node thing is tolerable - it was an injection of radioactive stuff then a lot of lying under a big scanner thing for a while- I'd had my wire stuck in under local anaesthetic so it was probably quite numb.
I have iced buns !!

See, I can't remember the lying under a scanner AT ALL. I have a memory like a sieve.

Don't worry about the nurse, she shouldn't be cyber stalking her patients anyway.

I had my sentinel node scan on the morning of my op. I didn't find it at all bad just an injection and then lying on the scanner with arm up. Got to see screen and carry the print out showing the nodes up to ward. In fact I found the worst bit so far was not the surgery (general anaesthetic helps with that) but watching the core biopsy...

Oh, yes, the core biopsy

The nurse said often women say that is the worst bit (and mine took one and half hours!), so hopefully it's plain sailing from now on (hahaha).

thanks very much for sharing everyone.

I really don't have much luck with smears do I ?

< flutters the few I have eyelashes winningly at mas in vain bid to win iced bun >

aargh at smear MAS - but at least its done, get some cake into you

I haven't had a smear for ages, because I had a hysterectomy fairly young, mind you in my time I have had the whole world and its dog looking up my foof, so I can sympathise! No pelvic floor here either Sparkle - you are in good company

at the idea of some random bloke popping in to do a smear topsy.

Dee - any letter form the hospital makes you think 'aargh what now?' so understandable it threw you a bit. I had my nodes tested when I had my mastectomy, but about an hour before I had a radioactive injection, which I think is probably what you will be having. I don't remember it being particularly awful, so I think you will be fine.

Well done for getting Jupiter out of the door and into the wider universe Cakes. Good thinking on the crater

I've already removed two enormous spiders this morning. Where are the little buggers coming from? Is it because my house is especially filthy? very likely

My computer is acting up again, keeps jamming and won't let me type

(passes iced buns about)

KK - autumn is spider time- dh had to remove huge one from ds's bedroom last night- and I do keep finding poor spider corpses seen off by Miss Celeste.
Am feeling better having scoffed my treats and being reassured by my dear friends on this thread. What's the betting i bump into my nurse again pretty soon though (I did say 'see you soon' as I left,as you do) In the whirl of it all I forgot to pick up my prescription and to book a flu jab (am in half a mind about flu jab- I suppose I should have it..)

No it can't be the dirt KK, otherwise I'd be knee deep in spiders and you'd have to sedate me for my own protection.

Computer problems are a total git (and I speak as someone who has a BlackBerry - sigh)

I too am having blackberry problems . Blardy Blackberry servers crashing all over the place . Maye its giant spiders in the system ...

Smears aren't the only place I encounter fraudulent random medics .
The doc I had for my first post mastectomy physical , has never been seen again either . The name I was addressing him by is not recognised by any of the medics I have seen since .
Maybe he was a porter ???

Flipping heck, Topsy!

He didn't take photos, did he?

Ha !
No , but he had a good grope

topsy !! !

Topsy....some random perv was in clinic waiting for gropes......you have all the luck

Have I missed out on the iced buns.....

MAS I hate to say it, but yesssss you should have the flu jab, as should I. Must get round to that.

Kurri I am glad I am not alone, am still doing pelvic floor exercises....every time I pop back to the thread.

DD has sorted my computer temporarily, by rapidly clicking buttons

at random groper topsy, how strange.

Just seen about the Blackberry probs. on the news. I hope they sort it soon for all you Blackberry using girls. (DH used to have one, lent to him by work, but it became a rival for his affections and it had to go! )

Years ago, when I was in my 20s (so ages ago) I had to have some kind of test and the young doctor/technician gave me the injection in my bum. When I had the follow up, a different doctor said something about the injection 'you have to have in your hand'. I told him mine had been in my bum, and he said 'Oh I expect that's just because you are young and attractive' !!!! Clearly there is something to be said for turning into an old bag.

BlackBerry issues are a pain but no surprise to me. Every piece of technology I ever get turns to crap, usually sooner rather than later

Am now wondering what kind of fetish you would have to have to find a one boobied woman alluring ....

What's for lunch today ?
I fancy a jacket spud with loads of butter and salt and pepper . Think I may have left that idea a bit too late .
Ah well , super noodles it is then [grin ]

You are doing well if you haven't hit the fridge by this time Topsy!

Lunch was a full 2 hours ago here - still on my diet most of the time so it was a big and virtuous smoked mackerel salad (but it was followed by Smarties)

Lunch here is left over party food (getting slightly sick of it now) - bit late but the phone went just as I was about to sit down to eat.

Getting very worried about all these bogus doctors now, - good job I'm not young or attractive - Mind you my onc. always rubs his hands together vigorously as he approaches to poke my boobal area, I know he's just warming them up, but it is slightly off putting!

There was one doctor in my old surgery, we always used to 'joke' that if you went in and said 'I've got a sore eye' he'd say 'take your pants off'