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new thread - bring the trolley over here....

MAS amber You need to go online now to get tickets, When I booked a couple of weeks ago it wasn't until the end of March that tickets were available for other than at dawn or late night. I am still livid from the Leonardo exhibition when we didn't book in time, tried going up to London on the first train and were still way to late for the day tickets, yet you could go on viagogo and there were loads available for £100. Obviously the sellers don't care if they only shift 2 out of 10 of their tickets, they still make a 100% profit but they deprive 8 genuine people of the chance to see the exhibition

thanks for that copt
Cheese and pineapple def. tomorrow- can't face the cold trip (yes I know it's 5 mins away but... if I go topmorrow I can get my daily free cup of coffee too ) !

Hello everyone. Just denying getting tipsy drunk ...... She just must have been very thirsty ! The retro cheese pineapple and pickled onions were lovely, I used to laugh at my DH when he made them for get togethers ! We also had Christmas Pie (goid good website) from my freezer and Buffalo Chicken Wings. My wounds are not much better and my new boob is rock hard and warm .... I
Am told by the surgeons apprentice that this fairly normal and is fat necrosis as is the yucky yellow stuff seeping from the other side of the tissue flap. I am really fed up of it now and having a bit of a down time to be honest. My surgeon is back from hols this week so look forward to seeing her and hopefully quelling my paranoia that I will end up back under the knife :( hope everyone is well

Hi everyone - just popping in to say hello. Did parkrun volunteering this morning, then set out for sculpture park but it was trying to snow so aborted mission and saw the Hockney and Sophie Ryder exhibitions at local gallery also the one Lichtenstein that is there. Went for a run later, but still have loads of stuff I was supposed to do today, oops.

Hope your surgeon hurries up back from her hols and can sort your paranoia out hnd

Gracie, I have a black bit, lots of red bits, horrible thread needle type rash and all manner of other things on my radiated breast. Surgeon says all normal, so yes go get checked but honestly I'd bet it's just that your skin went to hell and back. xx

HND, bugger about the wound, though from what I've heard from others who've had similar it can take an age for all to settle.

Snails, bruising sounds a bit ouch, but good to hear it's worth it. My implant revision was supposed to be about now, but I cancelled it due to work, and lovely surgeon has asked me to suggest some dates in May or June.

Am mighty lucky as DH is a member of RA, so I can go to Manet whenever. We tried to get into Hayward last week, but it was sold out. I'd bet there will be too many kids tomorrow too, though one of them will be mine.

Pouring out here.

jchoc Salts ! We love Salts. DDs reception teacher v impressed when DD drew picture in art of her diving into swimming pool, didn't hint it was a northern thing

Wasn't Salts Copt, not been there for a while either - may do lunch there on Weds though as have day off work booked and kniterati in Saltaire in morning. Cartwright Hall

There was a swimming pool in the exhibition, but it was mostly early works and very interesting... 'Course he went to school across the road and a group of children from the Grammar had interviewed him over a meal of pizza and cans of coke.... at reception diving picture :)

Good morning all. We are all up very early as my ds is 11 today. Can't believe it. My baby is nearly as tall as me and growing up fast. Their birthdays make me all emotional, especially this year.

I have a cancellation appointment and am seeing the oncologist on tuesday a week earlier. This waiting for treatment is terrible. I guess I will find out all about it on Tuesday.

ned how are you getting on with your ipad ? Mine is like another limb and is permanatly attached to me. If you fancy lunch by the beach sometime give me a shout.

kirri love the tunic !

nextdoor hope the surgeon can reassure you this week and it all settles down.

Hi, possible new member here. I lurked a couple of years ago following biopsies etc which were inconclusive but dodgy. Now I have a lump, which looks "dodgy"' radiologists words not mine, and more extensive calcifications. Biopsies back on Tuesday and an op is definitely on the cards, anything else ? Will find out on Tuesday.
It was a roller coaster last week. The only experience I have is death - 2 friends from university - 4 years ago and 5 years ago. Im trying to adopt the "it's a chronic illness not a death sentence" and making a mental list of those who've had BC, but since moving abroad my peer group is smaller and I need to hear normal boring BC stories about getting on with life.
The only person I can think of is Kylie! Ironically MIL (whos bonkers) had double mx over the last 30 years and she's 80, so there's hope for me.

Oh, and I HAVE an iPad!

welcome coorong with your ipad ! so sorry you're in the horrid waiting stage -fingers very crossed for you. Please be reassured that things can turn out ok for loads of people and that several of us are quite a few years on from initial dx - even those with mets are getting on with things and are well.
Waves to pen and jane
I do love my ipad - so useful too for work (instant reference at my fingertips) but best of all for iplayer in bed

Hi coorong. Sorry you are waiting for results, that is a worrying time.Stick around for hand holding. If you want a boring story about getting on with life, I had a lumpectomy for a grade 2 breast cancer in Sept 2011 followed by radiotherapy. Taking tamoxifen for five years now. Went back to work Jan last year. Have 18 month check this week.

Hi mas xpost :)

Morning All

Welcome to Coorong , good luck for Tuesdays results . Any qs , there's bound to be at least one of us who have the answer .
Amazing coincidence - I look exactly like Kylie !!
blatant lie

Pen results for you on Tuesday too ? I'm glad you don't have to wait another week !
Happy Birthday to mini pen

Snot fair
I want an iPad !!!

Off to granny's soon .
Seems to be lovely and sunny outside today .

I appear to have Mental Hair this morning .
Sigh

Hi Coorong Yep I can do boring story about getting on with life. Diagnosed with 1.7cm nasty lump in August 2001, scored top marks for aggression and estrogen+ it had spread to 1 lymph node and geek doctor gave me a 60% chance of surviving, had mastectomy and chemo and Tamoxifen for five years and that was the last bit of attention seeking it got away with. Some days go by and I don't think of it in fact geek doctor tells me that once I'd survived 5 years I now have less chance of dying from Breast Cancer than the average woman and he is much more concerned with my risk of dying of a heart attack....

I must admit that after all the drama of it all the new normal can actually be quite mundane

I have quite a few friends made during treatment who have gone on to equally boring lives, we had all sorts of different lumps, some given even worse chances than me, but also bear in mind most lumps are actually quite innocuous and relatively easy to treat .

jchoc glad to hear Cartwright hall still going, lots of memories of things I learned there, from stuffed animals to the hollocaust (ipad telling me this is not a word so clearly didn't learn spelling....or it's a denier ) Also lurked a lot in the vicinity of that grammar school with skirt hitched up, tie shortened and with very fat bit at top not done up to neck and horrible beret and gaberdine coat illegally stuffed in bag (I think the school was going for chic french spy look but in fact made us all look like Frank Spencer )

Thanks appreciate the comments all. Am thinking of name changing to KylieM or ishouldbesolucky! I don't mind the waiting - it gives me thinking time and all the biopsy results are there to consider. I've made only one rule, "no googling" - I mean. I might discover I've got cancer!

Coorong, hi from me too :-)
Google is complete rubbish. The info on there is based on the out of date stuff from 5 years ago. Nearly all treatments are new in the last five years, and the results are drastically different from the old stuff. There's now a 1 in 100 chance of a lump being a) cancer and b) really rudely behaved in a life threatening way. Even then, there's often an 8 out of 10 chance of them converting that rudeness into a long term nuisance instead of an early exit.

Boring story for you - two years post-diagnosis here. Had huge whack of chemo (worked all the way through it - doable), lumpectomy, radiotherapy, Herceptin for a while (that was the worst bit for me). Days off work - about 10 in grand total in the two years. Quite mad, really, but I just am. First few weeks were eeek and the regular appointments are eek too, and I won't say the treatment is fun....and I won't say that you come out the other end totally back to normal either. But still here, still have my friends and job and family and holidays and animals and fun. Like MAS says, even those here who are living with the ruder sorts are getting on with life and treating it as a darned nuisance from time to time but nothing much more.
So, mostly, that's what it is like. Hope that helps.

well said amber

Hi all. Long time, no me. Sorry I have been so crap but I just wanted to wave madly and smooch you all, and especially to say - yay! Nearly there! To KK, and a special welcome for Coorong. Amber said it well, as always.

Good to see you all being so chatty and reassuringly here and getting on with life - Still very busy here but I think life will be a bit less hectic in March.

MAS - haven't forgotten the sponsorship or the picture, I'll get onto both shortly.

Here, it's the end of half term. Dd went to drama group all day, every day, and last night we went to their performance. It was absolutely brilliant!

sometimes !! missing you v much - you are v good to be getting on with work though, unlike me Am ready when you are for the picture !

Elbows Topsy out of the way, as am sure I look far more like Kylie if only

Mwwah to Sometimes. We miss you! Hope you're not overdoing it. Am mighty jealous of your DD's half term activities. Sounds like she's dangerously close to being hooked.

Pen that's great that you've got an earlier appointment. Not much longer now. 11's a great age. Is he starting secondary next year? Must mean you have school choice hanging over you too. Never easy all of that.

Hello from me too Coorong. Bugger about the waiting and sorry you've found yourself here, but ask us anything you want and let us distract you. Honestly though if it does turn out to be cancer, Amber's wise as ever. If we can do it, well so can you.

Waving to all. Hope you all had a lovely day and are keeping warm.

Oh no I'm not good, just so swamped I don't know where to turn, it's stressing me out a bit, if I'm honest.

As you can probably tell, I'm rebelling now after another day at the poster. Here's a question for you - how do you do an emoticon on an iPad (ignorant Luddite)
Ooh hooks holland on dancing on ice! Back in a mo

Hooks? Meant Jules obviously. To revile and Dean ruined it a bit, for me, TBH. Skating around like a pair of gimps.... (Wish I knew how do do the "hmm" face)