mas girls are no better, I still search little Copts bag from time to time when I am feeling up to the challenge, it's very scary in there. We will all be holding your hand tomorrow, and once it is all over and T is tucked safely in bed you can heave a huge sigh of relief and sleep for hours....
eli wishing you all the best, we know each other from other local threads. I am sure you will be fine and they are just being careful, my closest friend used to trundle her gorgeous big lumpy tits off to the Consultant every couple of years and they never turned nasty, couldn't quite believe it when my small and undramatic tits were the ones to go spectacularly rogue. Should you need it I recommend the Marsden and my Dr Geek, he is the LEH of Consultants, very good on the Science but not especially good on the pastoral care 
smee yes no one is more amazed than me that she survived cot, supermarket trolley, and buggy hurdling, searching for tennis balls on snake ridden hillsides, bungy jumping, replacing all those years of organic food with a diet of instant noodles and diet coke, binge drinking on absinthe, london night buses at 5 am from SE1 and Hoxton etc. I think she knew that she had to go to the other side of the world because her 21st couldn't compete with the last episode in this series of Mad Men 
but if she thinks she has escaped a big family celebration she is wrong ...
Topsy sounds like an overdue MOT, but the thread has been good for smears lately, if I can get a clear one, then truly the Gods are smiling on us, and I am in the incontinence club at the moment too, I have a resurgence of my allergies which leads to ridiculous coughing fits and a loosening of the floodgates ....I am manically doing pelvic floor exercises shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted off to the theatre tonight 
lily I can so relate to the mindless morons at the end of the insurance company lines, one of my favourite moments in all of my treatment was when my Oncy rang up the "doctor" ( they only employ the ones who can't get a real job) who had sent her all sorts of stupid questions and gave him angry Sunday School teacher with both barrels. "Your ignorance is a disgrace to our profession" " I hope I have made it abundantly clear that I would regard any further contact from you as gross disrespect for my professional judgement". The trouble is they are only rigged up to deal with standard maintenance, knee ops etc. and their processes break down when it comes to long term problems, i have had so many run ins now over tests like vaginal ultrasounds and bone density scans they claimed I was having for my own self gratification that I have an account manager now, someone senior with half a brain and an ordinary layman's knowledge of Cancer, who lives in fear of being shouted at again by me, my surgeon , my Oncy, my husband's HR dept......
Better shut up now but hugs to all who need it, off to the theatre tonight, John Sim and Simon Russell Beale and before that a playlet with. Joanna Lumley and the one who played MORIARTY in Sherlock Holmes little Copt and I are very excited......