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Gigondas · 31/07/2012 01:43

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topsyturner · 31/07/2012 07:42

Well ?
Where are they ?

Gigondas · 31/07/2012 08:09

I have sent them out for breakfast- any requests?

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topsyturner · 31/07/2012 08:12
Gigondas · 31/07/2012 08:19

He clearly doesn't look like he is a Macdonald breakfast type . Which is what I have - looks at door and wonders where dh is.

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NedSchneebly · 31/07/2012 08:44

Could we not eat breakfast off Camille's naked chest? Anything would do. . .

topsyturner · 31/07/2012 08:46

Oooh MacDonalds breakfast off Camilles nekid chest ...

MaryAnnSingleton · 31/07/2012 09:15

Woo 27 !! Thanks Gig Grin
Can't keep up with you all but am adding brioches to the trolley. Love to all - hope that Topsy is still celebrating !!

SweetestThing · 31/07/2012 09:17

Morning!

If they're French lads, did they at least bring some fresh croissants and pains au chocolat?

Watched the gymnastics last night and was mesmerised by it. Such strength and control!!

Hope everyone is feeling well this morning. It's dull and dreich here, so a day of mooching about beckons.

Oh, someone asked which part of Glasgow I am from (sorry, can't remember who and am bursting for a wee, so haven't time to read back on other thread!). I'm from Kelvinside but husband is English and I met him down here after I came down when I finished uni. He is from Sarf Lahndan.:)

NedSchneebly · 31/07/2012 09:20

Morning MAS!

topsy how's the head this morning?!

gig how you feeling? When are you due to come home?

I am monstrously tired, DS going to in laws for few days so can get some rest. And the top of my sore patch has turned black and peeled off. Very sore. Boo. . .

Feeling a bit weird at the end of treatment too. Don't know why really Sad

topsyturner · 31/07/2012 09:27

Ned it's extremely common to feel out of sorts mentally at the end of treatment .
It's like a let down .
You have been looked after so closely by so many people , and all of a sudden you feel cut adrift .

As for the black bits , please keep an eye on them and get them looked at if you think they might be getting infected .

Head isn't too bad this morning .
Did wake up with a headache about 6.30 , but I took some paracetamol straight away and I feel fine now .

Gigondas · 31/07/2012 09:42

topsy speaks sense. Also rads is hugely draining and I am afraid it does take a week or two to get over it. My rads rash got worse in week after before got better.

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Gigondas · 31/07/2012 09:43

And feeling bit meh and tired - disturbed night hasn't helped my mood. Just want to be out of here.

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Baskets45 · 31/07/2012 09:45

Just dashing in to say Hello to all. And Sweetest, twas me asking nosey qus about Glasgow. We are clearly opposites :-) - as I grew up on south side of glasgow and married DH who is from norf london. We met in Edinburgh, moved to Perthshire 10 yrs or so ago. Lovely day here today. I think it's heavy rain tomorrow and thereafter ....

Sorry, Ned you are feeling so tired and sore. Do you ahve dressings for your sore patch? silky hankie are supposed to be good, lessen the rubbing. I hope the boy has good time with gps, and you get lots of rest. I understand it's very normal to feel a bit 'weird' at end of treatment. Lots of people here with direct experience of that.

Following French theme here, I have pains au raisin for trolley. I LOVE pains au raisin . I have packing to do and various other tasks. DH has taken ds2 to dentist - he's been complaining of pain for a day or so. Our boys NEVER have toothache, chunter, chunter,so why now, just when parents about to run away to the coast. I feel good today, took anti-sickness med last day and slept brilliantly. No nausea today. DS back from dentist, he can't say what was said, bloody LDs. Father has gone to supermarket. Obv nothing seriously wrong so all good. Right, off to be busy, busy, busy.

BWs to all.

SweetestThing · 31/07/2012 10:33

Ned, l felt foul after my r/t ended and got worse for a few weeks before I got better. I somehow thought that after my treatment finished, I would one day waken up and be 100% better, but it was much more gradual. Obviously, I can only speak for how I found it, but it took me several months before I started to feel I was regaining anything like normal energy levels. I don't think it was helped by the fact that where my r/t was targetted meant that I got horrendous mouth ulcers and inflamed throat, so eating was physically painful and I lost loads of weight and took longer healing due to lack of nutrition. So be prepared for it to take some time and in the meantime, be gentle with yourself and be reasonable in your expectations of yourself.

Basket, we are so opposite! I rarely ventured south of the river when I lived in Glasgow Grin. I had some friends who lived in Mosspark and I think I went over there a couple of times, but most of my friends were in walking distance of where I lived. So parochial!!

Gigondas · 31/07/2012 10:45

sweetest poor you- my mum had same thing. Lost 4 stone after radio to her throat. I found radio amazingly tiring. I Always thought that was big issue with chemo but was a big issue on radio do rest up.

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SweetestThing · 31/07/2012 11:07

Yes, r/t is exhausting, especially towards the end of treatment. Gigs, did your mum lose any hair? I lost a patch where they directed the r/t at the back of my head.

topsyturner · 31/07/2012 11:10

Off out for a while with DH and the DC .
Don't know where we are going , apart from popping into the hospital to return the bleeper I managed to steal yesterday due to my giddiness ... Grin

Gigondas · 31/07/2012 11:28

I think she did a bit - know I did (will spare you details of where though Grin).

Enjoy your day out topsy - how did you steal a bleeper?

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smee · 31/07/2012 11:50

No sign of swimmers. Gig, you have to share. Grin

Ouch, Ned. Have you got the proper cream/ dressings?? That was one thing I remember my lot were useless at. There are these amazing burns dressings with seaweed in; yell, scream, kick to get them. And feeling low's normal I think. You fight so hard to get through to the end, then when you get there you're a) exhausted, b) your body's hurting and c) shocked by it all. It does get better, but takes time. (((hugs from me)))

Gig, hope you get home soon. Not surprised you're feeling a bit m'eh. Sad

Sorry not to post to all. Running out of time. Off out with DS to meet an old friend and her daughter now. Raining here again. Kind of feels normal for summer somehow.

topsyturner · 31/07/2012 11:58

When you check in at my chemo unit you get given a bleeper so you can wander off around the hospital . Probably to stop you complaining when you get kept waiting for hours Grin

And I was so away with the fairies after yesterday's news , that I just stuck it in my handbag and fled the building !

graciesmall09 · 31/07/2012 13:57

Afternoon all.

Pre-chemo bloods and picc line dressing. Picc line has moved but just within the amount it is allowed to move so if it moves again back I will have to go. Now waiting for my bloods to check this infection isn't going to delay this session. Nurse agreed with you all and told me creche work is definitely not recommended. I now have to pluck up the courage to tell them.

Any sign of those swimmers gigs?

Ned ouch about your painful patch. Hope you have some dressings to ease the pain.

smee hope you have a good time with your friend.

May have a little snooze. Looks like my syringe driver is working Grin

KurriotsOfFire · 31/07/2012 14:01

afternoon all.

ned -sorry you are feeling a bit strange - but its very normal I think, - I felt like that too , I think it's something to do with everyone thinking you must be overjoyed to finish treatment, when actually you feel a bit flat- and it also sort of dawns on you what you have been through, and you still feel yuk from your treatment. Give yourself a bit of time to adjust, and to start feeling more like your old self - it will come.

My soreness after rads went black and peeled off too - it's very sore, ask your practice nurse for some dressings (I have to say, nothing much worked for mine, mainly because it was under my arm and the dressings wouldn't stay on, so I plastered it with savlon and that did the trick. But that's probably not recommended medical advice, it just worked for me)

Sweetest - my Mum grew up in Glasgow (from the age of about 6 until she finished school), she lived in Cambuslang, and then Bearsden Smile

Gig - pain about temp Sad - hope it settles down soon and they release you, is your DH bringing lots of treats to keep you going?

Baskets - hope DS's tooth is OK, - toothache is horrible, - how old is he? - is he of an age when wisdom teeth start causing pain? - both my kids had problems with theirs. I'm glad the anti sickness meds. worked Smile

Sweetest - a close friend of mine had r/t for throat cancer, - she was pretty ill on it too, but I don't think she lost any hair.

Nest door gits neighbours (the 'build a marquee ones') have been running a car all morning, just running the engine, for about 3 hours now, filling the air with deisel fumes, - why would you do that?

KurriotsOfFire · 31/07/2012 14:02

x-posted - waves to gracie Smile

Gigondas · 31/07/2012 14:11

Why would they do that kurri? Are they trying to do some kind of east Anglian version of shameless?

gracie snooze away- am allegedly getting picc sorted by today (have been told to expect a lot of "have you had cowboys in here" as he didn't do original line) .

Swimmers have been feeding me grapes and chocolate all morning Wink

Btw there is an aibu thread on Olympics eye candy if anyone interested

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KurriotsOfFire · 31/07/2012 14:57

I have no idea why they do anything Gig, - they don't seem to follow the behaviour patterns of normal humans. They had a brief break for lunch, and now they've started again, - they are car obsessed, - they have about four or five permanently in their drive way, and they keep taking them to bits and putting them back together again. Madness.

Does anyone want to know what kind of olympic athlete they are? here I am a male hockey player Sad

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