**TAMOXIFEN**22 !

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yikes- here we go...

Knew The Hoff would have to make an appearance at some point ...

well done for getting through that gig but eek about cannula. Hope rads goes smoothly tomorrow - will be thinking of you.
Happy bday too to junior sparkle !

Happy birthday junior sparkle !!! Hope DS has a lovely day - what is he having present-wise?

On reading suggestions, my year 4 boys last year loved the spy dogs and spy pups books - quite fun and easy to read, I thought. junior smee might enjoy?

gig yay for rads finally starting! Hope all Ok today. Thinking of you.

what about this vision of loveliness?

ooh Mr Darcy !
Happy birthday junior sparkle !!
Appalling weather here...

Morning all- happy birthday little miss sparkle

After the tone was raised last night , I offer you this. It takes something to make the orange child lover look talented [[

special singing]]

Linky no worky gig , am intrigued as to what is was now . Getting used to you all pimping out a steady stream of Orange Men for my delectation

Happy Birthday mini sparkle , have a fab day !

IPhone shuffle facility is giving me a great selection of music this morning .
iPhone appears to be in an Abba mood

Try this [[

treat]]

My iPhone has far too many kids songs - shuffle can be a random affair

Nope , still Linky No Worky
Maybe it's my (gulp) iPhone ...

No it cannot be. I can't seem to make it work (it's Peter and Jordan singing) so offer this a little bit continental and sophisticated

No, please no Julio he must be at least 80.

Happy birthday junior sparkle - hope it is a fab birthday.

gigs is it rads today? If so good luck.

Just wondering is it a common side effect for stomach ache after chemo. I have had a bit of heartburn for a few days, nothing dire, but I am on tabs for stomach acid but last night, oh my goodness, no heartburn but my stomach felt, well still feels a bit, raw. Strange feeling even when I took a drink I could feel it going into my stomach and it just felt like it was all raw. Perhaps my salad last night was much too healthy for me.

Pretty miserable day here today although I don't have to go out as I only need to do the school runs on Thursday and Fridays.

Hope everyone feeling ok today.

Gig you obviously broke the Internet trying to post clips of our fave tangerine couple singing

Gracie -heartburn ? Oh God Yes ! Got it (and still get it now) really badly . Docs can give you some tabs for that , but beware they make you really constipated (so you might want to look out for a nice pointy stick when you next take the dog for a walk )

Raw tummy is prob down to all the gagging . Just be gentle on yourself .
Oh and don't forget to have a bottle of Difflam in incase of mouth ulcers !

Any other delights I can share with you

Arf at the Hoff and Julio.. So v.orange..

Happy Birthday to your DS, Sparkle. How brilliant to be 9. Is he having a party?

Gigs, really good luck today with first one. Be a breeze once you get into the swing of it all.

Ned, you too. Hope they answer all your questions.

Gracie, I got heartburn - ask for something to help with it. I definitely got the raw stomach feeling too, but with me it was v.much down to being sick. Are you feeling okay apart from that?? Keep telling yourself you'll feel better soon, because you will I promise.

Blinkin' tap in the kitchen's broken - had to turn the water off. Plumber can't come until tomorrow and before then I'll have to go get a new tap. G'ah..

I don't think there were enough pictures of Colin there....I do like a little bit of Colin. Glad the Jordan peter clip didn't work though...could have put me off my lunch.

Topsy at you sharing your delights!

Yep it is official ds is 9, when we sang him happy birthday this morning, he looked straight at me and just grinned the biggest grin ever. He also told me he thought this set of presents was "a pretty good haul"....there is a boy who loves reading Enid Blyton! He got books, books and more books, wii harry potter game, club penguin bits and pieces.... ad a third share in the most enourmas trampoline the world has ever seen....well I have ever seen anyway

Nikki dog update, been to the vet this morning, she now has a secondary post op infection in the eye socket. So now on tramadol, anti inflam, penicillin and had opiate based pain killer injection....with all of that she should be feeling gooooood, but she is actually lying in her bed crying which is heart breaking. I know should stop obsessing and that she is only a dog...but........

Hope everyone is ok today.

Just racing in to say Good luck to Gig, and happy birthday to junior Sparkles.

Poor little Nikki dog though . Hope she is better soon.

Hello all.

Good luck with first rads Gig - will be thinking of you

Happy birthday Mini Sparkle - hope he has a lovely day, lots of books would have seen me in heaven when I was nine too - I'd have disappeared fro days of marathon reading sessions

Was just thinking about what my two used to enjoy reading when they were young. The Artemis Fowl books were very popular with DD, and when she was a bit older she started reading those Anthony Horowitz Alex Rider books, and the Charlie Higson ones about young James Bond. Oh and the Bartemeus trilogy (I've forgotten the author, - they are very good, I pinched them from her to read myself) perhaps for slightly older, but all the DC sound like good readers so they may enjoy them (don't think they are 'unsuitable' age-wise)

Sorry that Nikki is still a bit sore and glum, I hope she's better soon. Scruffy has been crying too with her sore ear, and I have to clean it out thoroughly then put the drops in, which she hates - so I'm sure she thinks I'm the enemy now

gracie - I had heartburn on chemo. I always felt as if the chemo seemed to work its way down my digestive system, it would start with a sore throat and gullet, then heartburn, then diarrhoea (sorry TMI) each one lasting several days. I found probiotic yogurt helped a bit with the heartburn - those actimel ones - several a day, - if you can stomach yogurt atm.

Am feeling a bit down - I had another shitty appointment at the hospital - endocrinologist. I'm fairly sure I'm underactive again - have lots of symptoms. I saw a completely different doctor. he hadn't read my notes, he couldn't have been less interested in my symptoms, he didn't have my blood test results because 'the sample was incorrectly labelled so they couldn't process it'
Totally uninterested in talking about my weight (at this point he was holding out his hand for me to shake so he could get rid of me) and said 'I'm sure your GP can deal with things from now on, so you don't really need to come to clinic again!

I don't feel as if I have a hope of getting the weight under control if my thyroid isn't sorted, and they can't even managed a simple blood test without cocking up.

I had another blood test taken, and DH says he'll come with me to the GP and get the results and we'll say we weren't happy with the hospital treatment this time.

I feel very fed up about everything - I just want to feel normal again

Obviously a glimpse of Julio has cheered me up a bit, - I imagine topsy is still having palpitations over the Hoff

KK - and .

I read your trauma over yesterday's appointment and the weight (plus intimidatingly good looking surgeon) - and now this. Bloody hell.
I really think you should complain. If you're like me you'll find this hard because i get all compliant and eager to please in a medical situation, but he was worse than useless.

Thanks Sometimes - DH wants to complain too, - so we might, but I didn't even catch the bloke's name - although suppose it would be easy enough to find out.
Part of me just wants to give up though - honestly I feel like buying the biggest bar of chocolate known to man and eating the whole lot!

I hate waiting months for a consultation then you can't say what you want, - I'd even written a list but he just dismissed everything.

I'll be fine again tomorrow. One of my friends wants to lose weight and she's said she'll do it with me for encouragement, - which is nice - and since I often eat at her house she'll make healthy things.

Just having a bad day today - it will pass

What news of your pre op appointment? is it soon?

Kurri - my sympathies. So irritating when there is no continuity between consultants and they can't be bothered to read the notes. I hope you GP is more helpful with advice about the weightloss but will be hard unless they can sort the thyroid thing out.

Gracie - probably took about ten days for ny tummy to recover from the joys of epirubicin so hopefully you will feel better soon.

Gigs - hope the radiotherapy went ahead today and was not too bad.

Was dosed yesterday as planned. Feeling not too bad today but expect the tiredness will kick in tomorrow when the dexamethasone is finsihed.

Pre-op is on Monday, KK. No surgery appt yet though.

It would be wonderful to lose weight with a friend - so much more motivating. The thyroid is going to be pretty key, though. I know you don't need me to tell you that

Another one down, then, OneinEight. I remember the epirubicin all too well - was lucky enough not to be sick but always felt as if I was being pickled, somehow

Kurri. How useless. I'd be cross and upset too. Think your DH's idea of coming with you to gp is a good one. Two heads better than one and all that. Ridiculous that they can't get you on an even keel.

Waving to Eight. Glad you got through yesterday. Another one ticked off then, so you're getting even closer to the end. Are you having Rads too? Can't remember.

Sometimes, how come they're doing a pre-op if you've no surgery date?? I have my pre-op clinic on Monday, but ops on Thursday.

Sparkle, poor Nikki dog. Must be horrible hearing her whimper like that. Hope she gets distracted by DS's celebrations. Sounds like a lovely lot of presents.

Chucking it down in time for walk to school. Got to persuade DS to come to buy his Granddad a present, as it's his birthday on Friday. Might have to do treats for the bus journey.

Dunno, Smee. But you've got me wondering now, maybe I'll phone the hospital in case they think they have given me a surgery date I don't know about (that has happened before..)

I am so sad about the crying Nikki,poor poor love,and old lady dog too
and very on kk's behalf- this isn't good enough.
Well done eight another down !
Hope junior sparkle is having the best birthday - loved the pretty good haul -bless him.
Dreadful weather- driving in rain not fun. Went to Basingstoke to search for a picture frame and cards for mum from Paperchase and vaguely looking for things for the boy's birthday. He has returned soaked and made off to his room with a Krispy Kreme doughnut I bought him,a bagel,rather a lot of my giant choc buttons and my twiglets - grrr. Naturally I was out when a delivery came (think it is something for my dad's birthday)
Hope all has gone well with gig irradiation

oh and thank you to wonderful sometimes for the Alan Bennett - you are a love xxx

Rads done- 1 down , 29 to go(aside from waiting room- no I jeffing dont want to upload my photo as one of the "faces" of sarcoma ). It was ok doing treatment as radiotherapists are lovely. Just took a while to adjust and get settings right. Then had (another) long lecture on how skin might get sore which was nice as they want to help but I cannot believe any pain can be worse then when I was 8 months pregnant and could take nothing but paracetamol.

kk - that's unbelievably shitty . Some drs have no fucking clue do they? And as you say it's particularly important given your appt yesterday.

Gracie - can I suggest you try not to eat raw veg and fruit? I was in a bad way due to infection/anti bios and dietician said cooked fruit , yoghurt (which has been suggested here and cooked food. I am also on aloe Vera juice (which did heal things super quick) but as it tastes like evil I cannot suggest it to anyone remotely nauseous .

Another treatment down 1in8

Sending lots of pats and love to poor nikki - that is one brave little dog.

This was (a not office friendly or tasteful) Cheer up attempt my sister sent me worst album covers

Pre op sometimes - is that to do bloods? If it is just to check grouping and iron levels they can do that a few days before .