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Hello all! New thread as we have almost filled the last one. Help yourself to chocolate chip muffins from the trolley! :)

good luck for later Gig. Good to see you have at least 1 holiday booked now.

I've off to drop of DS at club in a minute then onto onc....

Morning all
Good luck to gigs and Kitkat today x

Malt - omeprazole is brilliant for heartburn.

Hi Lady, bummer that you are here, but hugs to you, and as the girls say secondaries can be managed as a chronic disease.

And hello to everyone else, just catching up (or trying to), and I see you've started a new thread!

I've been a bit busy here as am moving house tomorrow - yikes!!

good luck gig and kitkat and happy house moving snails !

Morning All

Welcome Lady
I'm another lung secondaries . But presently in remission (yippee !)

Good luck with the move Snails (anyone else get the mental image of you packing your worldly goods into the shell on your back ? )

Kitkat good luck with your apt today , let us know how it goes .

Gigs I have everything crossed for you today . (Will make it very difficult to get dressed , but you know how I love to sit around in my pants anyway !)

Am sitting in my living room , quietly having my first coffee of the day .
Feeling a little slow this morning . HNDs fault as she made me drink an entire bottle of wine last night ...

that hnd is a caution...

Loads of love and good vibes for later Gig xx

topsy - what is that HND like?, she knows you are a soft drinks only girl. tsk tsk, she's leading you astray.

Snails - good luck with the move, hope it goes super smoothly for you.

trice - its great to hear how much better you are feeling, when you were feeling so poorly not so very long ago. So pleased for you

I had a flood under the kitchen sink in the cupboard - it was awash in there (must have happened a few days ago, probably DH leaving the tap on) anyway, there was a packet of that colour restore for black clothes in there and its burst all over everything - wet blue/black dye everywhere, - have spent about an hour cleaning it all out. washing dye off stuff, trying to stop old lady dog dancing about in it and dyeing herself blue! My hands are completely blue - and I have to open a meeting and introduce the speaker tonight - so that will look good, I may have to go down the glove route

Waving to all.

Sniggering at the thought of kk with "smurf hands"

Lol at blue hands
Good luck with the move snails
Topsy how's the head ?
Feel knackered today and guilty not doing much with the kids, ds swimming with friends and dd tidying her room but feel bit pathetic just sitting here

Heads fine Malt
I'm drinking full sugar coke though ...

Don't worry about not doing stuff with the DC . If you're knackered , just rest !

Relax malt- be a hands off mum (topsy is very good at reminding me of this - and Copt- so have got over my weekend crisis with big gig).

Am stressing now as dont need a blood test which I am reading way too much into. Have got a few hours to kill so may go build marble runs with big gig to distract .

sending you a cheese scone gig
malt honestly,kids really can mind themselves - makes them more resourceful and whatnot. You rest up.
I love the idea of Smurf hands kk !

Am I the only one seeing kurri doing some kind of jazz hands routine with blue hands ...

I know you're right they can entertain themselves still feel guilty that they should be on holiday on the beach though if it wasn't for me
What time is your appointment gigs ?

stop that malt

I will try Mas

malt I know talking to the staff in my department at uni that it isn't the students whose childhoods were basically taken away by carer responsibilities that struggle to cope, they don't, they thrive, it is the ones who have had helicopter parents dancing to their every need. Shit happens and it doesn't hurt for our children to find that out early as long as they are surrounded by people who love and support them. It could be a lot worse, they'll have a good summer being Swallow and Amazons . Best advice I ever had was that they grow up in spite of you, so true.

gigs Hope I am not squeezing your hand too hard, wouldn't want it to turn blue, you have heard the one about people with blue hands?

Just popping in to send hugs to gigs, marble run is so much fun, hope it was a good distraction!

amber thanks for the suggestion, shall try manuka honey if GP doesn't come up with anything magical! I think I'm meant to be eating honey anyway :)

Talking of which, what supplements are you all taking? I'm not taking anything at the mo as Dr W banned any antioxidants during chemo and haven't got round to working out what I should be taking yet! :)

trice I'm so glad to hear you've made such an improvement since starting the capecitabine :) 5000 steps a day is fabulous!

kk at blue hands!

snails good luck with your move, hope everything goes smoothly :)

smee hope you've not got too damp in the rain!

Gracie owch at fissures, yes it's a similar pain I think! Like passing shards of broken glass coated in battery acid I shall ask about GTN cream, thank you :)

Waving to everyone I've missed!

Just done my 5000 steps. It is a beautiful day today, blue sky, fluffy clouds, all the children are out in their gardens playing, next door have got their bubble machine out and their 18month old ds is full of giggles. It lifts the heart.

I am setting out some story lines for our holiday. We usually try to collectively make up a story on holiday incorporating sights and people we meet. It is great fun. There are seven kids and eight adults all chipping in with wacky twists and new characters but it does make it easier if there is some sort of backbone to the tale. I am reading folk tales from the area of Italy that we are visiting and pinching some ideas and characters (the sillier and more macabre the better) . I might record it this year and actually write it down. If I get it printed into a little book with the holiday photos it would make a great Christmas present.

Malt, chill out. I helicoptered my ds like mad for years whereas my dd was kind of abandoned when she was 18 months when I first got ill. They are both happy and healthy despite my shortcomings as a parent. Even though they do spend 8 hours a day on screen time if I am under the weather. Sometimes your best just has to be good enough.

malt I fourth (or fifth?) the chill - the kids are fine and it's good for them to learn how to entertain themselves and enjoy their own company. You will have more energy in a few days to do stuff with them :)

Speaking of which took the kidsv to the beach today and a good time was had by all :) (This time last week I was lying on the sofa whilst they spent rather longer than I'd like watching the box, but as trcie said, sometimes that has to be good enough!)

Trice that book thing sounds fantastic !
What a brilliant idea .

I know you're all right and they're fine ds has had a nice day swimming and playing with his friends. Dd not been out but at 14 that's her choice she could ring her friends if she was bored
Trice the story thing does sound fab
Betsy loved your beach pictures

hello all - am back from onc (and lunch and shopping ). Anyway he was pleased!! The lump is much more defined now (which I thought too but didn't like) and that is good news - he says before it took up much more of the breast and did not have defined edges so he is pleased with the progress. It's wierd because to me it now feels like a proper lump rather than a large area of hard breast - so yippeee.
Am going to have an MRI in 2 weeks and he will then decide whether to continue with FEC or try something else (will just be another chemo though).

Also asked about Mirena coil and I can keep it whilst on chemo. He says there is no firm evidence that it would be a problem afterwards when on Tamoxifen but it may be best to take it out then - hopefully will not have periods by then anyway.

Thinking of Gigs - hopefully she will show up will good news as well.

that's great news kitkat - a nicely defined lump will be much easier to remove with clean margins :)