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******The 36th TAMOXIFEN thread******

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NedSchneebly · 10/05/2013 20:02

You all out there? Pop this way!

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topsyturner · 14/05/2013 08:37

Morning All

We have our usual week booked in our Favourite Place In The World Grin
It's a house right by the beach in Connemara .
All there is , is the beach .
Nearest , very small , market town is 11 miles away .
We literally do nothing but sit on the beach for a week .
And because its in the same country (depending on your political view point Wink ) I even managed to go there whilst on chemo one year !

Speaking of Cancer , it's my 2 year anniversary !
2 years since I was diagnosed .
Can't believe it actually .

Hope everyone has a good day today
Anyone fancy a bacon sarnie for brekkie ?

malteserzz · 14/05/2013 08:48

I'll have a bacon sarnie please with tomato sauce. Watching angelina Jolie who's announced today she had a double mx to prevent BC. I'm just thinking lucky her ! Probably just me being grumpy
I love holidays and we've had lots of lovely ones so have been very lucky

Gigondas · 14/05/2013 08:56

Swap you a bacon sarnie for a brioche and Nutella .

Your holiday spot sounds perfect topsy. We will be camping down ned and not Jenkins way in August. And France at half term Smile.

notJenkins · 14/05/2013 09:12

Ooh gigs where are you camping ? I feel a lunch coming don't you ned?

NedSchneebly · 14/05/2013 09:15

Morning lovelies one and all Smile

malt post away, my love. Chances are we've all felt the same at one stage or another. Don't hold back on our account x x

Topsy - 2 years is an awesome milestone. I don't know if "celebrate" is quite the right word, but it needs marking in some way, I think. Seems like a great reason for bacon sarnies anyway Smile When do you get your CT results? (or did I hideously miss your report on that? Blush )

I started my career teaching secondary, and have worked my way down to Year 1! At least teaching secondary the chances are they remember to put their pants on in the morning. Got rather more or an eyeful than I bargained for last week with little girl sitting cross legged in her rather short summer dress. . .

very excited about the gig family coming this way in August. Must arrange a meet up! We too are going to France at half term, with the ILs. could be a complete and unmitigated disaster. . .

Any news on kurri? Haven't seen her on the new thread yet, I don't think. Hope everything is OK x x x x

Must get on - two sets of reports still to write. Am running out of ways of saying the same thing. The problem in my school is that so many of the kids are related in some way or other, I wouldn't be surprised if the parents compare reports and then complain because I have used the same whole report phrases in some. Sigh. . .

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NedSchneebly · 14/05/2013 09:16

X post NJ Hell, yes - lunch good!

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notJenkins · 14/05/2013 09:24

Perhaps our pissup meet up should be down these parts in August. We could sample some local ciders.... Admire the scenery....

AshokanFarewell · 14/05/2013 10:59

Ooh a seaside meet up! Grin good idea notJ

topsy congratulations (? Is that the ight thing to say?) on your two year anniversary! Hope you enjoyed the bacon Sarmiento :)

ned good luck with reports!

KK hope all is well xx

gigs yay for two tesco trips planned!

malt people on Facebook are so annoying. I have one who is always posting these attention seeking statuses about how ill he is and then everyone going "oh hun r u ok ur so strong" and all sorts of crap. It's usually a fricking cold. I've had to sit on my hands a few times Grin I hope you have a lovely time with your friend and feel free to post whatever you like here!

trice I'm glad all is forgiven with DD and that she went to school happily today.

I had a sleepless night last night, good to be back in my own bed but then I had lots of vivid and horrible dreams about dying and also about my ex :(

My auntie is staying with us all week and my cousins are coming over to see her and us this evening, will be lovely :) I'm making dessert, it's a new one I've not tried before, chocolate fudge sponge. First make a chocolate fudge sauce and put that in the tin then put sponge mix on top and cook, then turn upside down. Looks yummy in the picture.

Anyway must have my shower and get on with the day. Bizarrely after a bit of a rubbish night I'm feeling quite positive about everything and full of beans. Planning to start exercising a bit more, starting next week Grin

Waves to everyone I've missed, hope you're all having a good day.

AshokanFarewell · 14/05/2013 11:00

*sarnie not Sarmiento Confused

Copthallresident · 14/05/2013 12:41

Ash Grin at Sarmiento , good new word!!

I think sometimes those dreams are your sub conscious finally getting those thoughts and feelings out because you are ready to deal with them, if you feel good today perhaps it was cathartic?

By the way also happy to treat you to some verbal diarrhoea and perhaps someone else could volunteer to get something surprising stuck somewhere on/ in their anatomy by way of diversion..........

malt Yup also thought AJ a stupid attention seeker. Especially bit about how she did her breasts first because it was more involved than Ovaries. NOPE Breast is just loss of a pound of flesh, dead easy, no muscle involved, ovary a lot harder in real world but clearly in her world the need for perfect reconstruction is the challenge, rather than, you know, surviving Also she bought that Cambodian child, unscrupulous American woman was running an "orphanage" as a front for selling babies / children to Americans, Cambodia is unbelievably poor because Pol Pot killed off the entire educated population, left no doctors, teachers, business men etc. Even the politicians are still mostly in some way connected to Pol Pot because any others were killed. There are still so few teachers that the schools run two shifts, half the children go in the morning, half in the evening. There are lots of brilliant NGOs helping Cambodia to build up a society again that she could have supported but this stupid woman goes in and tries to make out she is doing good by taking a child away from it's mother and then setting up her own charitable foundation which is actually doing business with former Kmer Rouge soldiers www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/04/hollyworld-angies-legacy-_n_1076492.html This article is based on research by one of our academics, he is quoted at the end.

Coorong camel rap? you are preparing your pupils for serious academic study www.soas.ac.uk/camelconference/ There were actual camels on the steps outside, not sure if they were queuing to get in Grin

That's my uni, completely nuts but for all the right reasons Grin

Trice Glad you are having a good day

HND so pleased you have got rids of one of your drains, must be a huge morale booster, it's getting better Grin

Topsy I am sure you will not be having any Wine to celebrate Hmm Two years Grin I love Connemara, my great grandmother came from there and we still have family there who we visited as a child. Also my lovely horse came from there Grin

smee has forced me to buy more Cadbury's candy chocolate Angry

Copthallresident · 14/05/2013 14:32

Sorry a bit of Cancer Tourette's there but AJ not heroine amongst those who know about issues facing third world countries in Asia and Africa

Gigondas · 14/05/2013 14:37

Hands Copt a Brew and bit of Reuben's cake - good on you for ranting on other thread ( which has Tourette's material aplenty on it).

So much for doing anything - have been lieing about reading and watching Junk tv most of day. Need to get bit more active as big gig home soon.

trice · 14/05/2013 14:38

Exams are so stressful. I wish there was a better way of categorising people's abilities, it seems so crude and inaccurate.

topsyturner · 14/05/2013 15:08

Ooh is there a bunfight cracking off somewhere ?

Get up Gigs you lazy moo Grin

Sports day for DD this evening .
There's still a slim hope we'll get rained off ...

Copthallresident · 14/05/2013 15:11

Thanks gigs wet flannel probably also needed Grin wouldn't be so tetchy were it not for stress last night and the fact that it is raining Grin

Enjoy your lazy day, if that is what you feel like it is what you need.

Trice Couldn't agree more especially since I am part of a family of Dyslexics, but I take comfort that we seem to do fine when we get into the real world. The weird thing is that when I did my MA , post chemo, I did rather well in the exams, totally at odds with my previous academic career, and better than in my coursework, in spite of chemo brain Confused. Perhaps in the process of messing with your cognitive ability it does improve the ability, entirely useless in any other context, to do well in exams Grin

malteserzz · 14/05/2013 15:16

I'm off to look for the bun fight too ! Could use a little distraction as have convinced myself that not only have I BC I also have lots of other things wrong with me too, I'm fine when I'm busy it's just when I have time to think.

smee · 14/05/2013 15:27

Copt, poor DD. Must be so hard to be on the sidelines. when I was stressed about my chemistry o-level, my mum gave me whisky to help me sleep. Shock Did work though. Just saying..

2 years, Topsy. Bloody hell. You must have treats. Smile

Wonder if Coorong got through her camel rap. Got some vision of her doing the sand dance. Grin

Trice how are you today??

That cake sounds mmm, Ash. Leave us some crumbs. Smile

notJ, I like the sound of your future life. Smile

Raining here and cold. I am sleeping ridiculously badly atm. Have just had a meeting in town, so found myself in John Lewis buying a memory foam pillow. The words 'clutching' and 'straws' spring to mind. Hmm

Copthallresident · 14/05/2013 15:30

malt Oh yes, you suddenly start to deeply distrust your body. Pile it all into the paranoia box, it will have lots of company Grin

Copthallresident · 14/05/2013 15:44

smee I have new pillows, now an expert in the relative merits of Hungarian v Siberian Geese v Ducks Down v Feathers Grin And memory foam mattress toppers......

Have tried irresponsible parenting Wine with Little Copt, indeed DHs only strategy, after that he goes to bed and leaves me to it, but weirdly she has managed to plunder the farthest reaches of the gene pool to find some genes that mean she is not keen on drinking Shock

MaryAnnSingleton · 14/05/2013 16:30

2years topsy - crikey ! I've just passed 4 years Shock-well end of April was 4 years,and 4 years from surgery on 19th I think..or 18th- it's all a blur...
Love to all- am just dashing by to say hello before going to visit baby rook next door and take 2 nice Boden hoodies which think might do for neighbour's ds...my feet are soaked from bloody rainy walk to town and back.
And hooray- have just been offered another joke book (this tine for 5-7 yr olds) rah !!

trice · 14/05/2013 16:42

Today I have mostly been applying for employment support allowance. Which I don't feel entitled to in the slightest despite the fact I have been in bed for six weeks. It is not going to help my family if the bank forclose on the mortgage though is it? Stupid zero hours contract doesn't work in your favour when you are sick.

smee · 14/05/2013 16:52

Trice, I bet that's tedious, let alone stressful. Doesn't Macmillan have a service who can help with all of that? Could you hand it over to them?

Yay for MAS. Another new book's fab. Hope deadline's not too hairy. Are you celebrating? Smile

Copt, I shall road-test the memory foam pillow and get back to you. Little copt doesn't like alcohol?! Shock

malteserzz · 14/05/2013 17:27

Trice that does sound crap hope you can get it sorted
Smee if the pillow helps with sleep let me know too !
Topsy and MAS, 2 and 4 years Smile wonder if I'll ever be able to say that
Copy interesting about AJ and I had a look at the other thread
Funny old day here, just getting on with usual stuff really with lots of oh crap this is really happening and I can't cope moments, still doesn't seem real Hmm

thenightisyoung · 14/05/2013 17:28

Hi, I've been a bit buried by work for the past couple of weeks and return here to find a new thread has already got to page 10 Shock . Sorry I can't keep up with everyone.

Ash really sorry that you've been in hospital but pleased that you're back home now. I found exercise really helped me - I did all that C25K thing to get myself running and it gave me a lot of confidence back. Though obviously you can only do what your health allows at any time.

Malt I am a bit of an intermittent lurker on here. I don't often post partly because I don't use the computer much away from work and partly cos I can be a bit shy Blush. But everything you are expressing sound like me a couple of years ago. I was dx about two years ago with a rather rare form of uterine cancer and I needed a total hysterectomy but because of bank holidays and royal weddings etc. I had about a three week wait which I found agonising. For me the occasional small dose of valium got me through the worst of it. About six months later I was diagnosed with bowel cancer and although I had a total meltdown when I got a phone call asking me to come into hospital I felt much calmer once I got a treatment plan and even had quite a nice christmas and new year before my operation (I was dx on 23rd December). After the second op I did get some counselling to help deal with the anxiety I was feeling and I found that really useful. But I have been back at work for over a year now and feeling fit and well at the moment. I still have wobbly moments around appointments and scans but generally life has got a lot better for me - I hope that once you start getting through your treatment that things will feel calmer for you.

Smee, hope the memory foam works. I have tried so many pillows and memory foam was ok but the best is an absurdly expensive down pillow my Mum bought me after one of my ops to cheer me up.

Copt you are bringing back traumatic memories of the year DD was doing GCSEs and DS was doing A Levels.

Gig I hope you are okay and the little gigs are letting you get some rest. How is your OU going?

This post is far too long so obviously not as shy as I thought I was! Hope everyone else is ok xxx

MaryAnnSingleton · 14/05/2013 17:30

am pretty sure Macmillan have a service for sorting out allowances- would be worth checking.
Deadline is nice and relaxed smee so no immediate panic which is nice.I've just eaten a FAB lolly and might manage a glass of wine later Grin