Waves excitedly to hnd great that you got rid of Sydney and are getting on with life
gigs sorry you have encountered a nurse Ratchett, a restful day with Howard sounds just the thing i'm so sad there may be those early NOW LPs, cue laughter from big and little Copt at use of word LP, in the loft, along with my 45s, even more laughter, they are called vinyl now 
betsy at my hospital they actually have a specialist hormone therapy unit but they are at forefront of studies into importance of hormone therapies, my Consultant says he probably would have recommended it instead of chemo for me, because my tumour was very strongly ER positive and I had a history of hormonal cancer and other problems. I think medical establishment quite wedded to chemo in spite of fact that for some of us the benefit is negligible, I would certainly ask the questions of the Oncy.
I'm very relaxed about my other boob, once I was on the Tamoxifen all the lumps disappeared and I never really believed my small and rather pathetic breasts were capable of such drama anyway, they couldn't even muster a cleavage without serious scaffolding 
or a serious wonder bra with added wonder padding.
ruby we are statistics twinnie's. I too was given 40 % chance of recurrence, actually come to think of it, that was of not surviving 5 years, but well it is 12 years so just goes to show, statistics , pah! Same goes for all my chemo buddies and some had worse stats, we were right that all the bad statistics are deep fried mars bars eaters........ Plus as I understand it with bowel cancer even more than BC they can just keep zapping it with lazers etc and there are people walking around who have had it for decades.
Waves to all