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Good plan topsy
MAS good idea to spread the visitors out a bit
Foo foo I'm fed up of the bloody journey too !
Smee I was going to be miserable and say I have nothing to look forward to but then I remembered downton tonight

Good plan topsy
MAS good idea to spread the visitors out a bit
Foo foo I'm fed up of the bloody journey too !
Smee I was going to be miserable and say I have nothing to look forward to but then I remembered downton tonight

Hi all

May I join foofoo and malt in feeling rough today I was doing so well and even slept okay ish last night. But have spent the day sat watching tv, and feeling sore! My shoulder is aching, really aching! Feels like someone is dragging on my arm

I know some of you are going through far worse, but really feeling crap today. Roll on tomorrow, and hopefully a better day all round.

Xxxx

Sorry to hear that really have you got painkillers you can take ?
My day has been chilled but ok looking forward to X factor downton and TOWIE tonight

Hi malt have taken some painkillers but they haven't really done anything. Problem is it's not really pain, so much as aching?! Odd!! Very uncomfortable. But hopefully it won't last long.

You sound a bit cheerier enjoy your evening. Xxx

Sorry to hear that so many of us are not having a great day today - hopefully foofoo, Malt and Really will be feeling less rough tomorrow.

I've had a lovely day (sorry) - watched DS team in a rugby tournament in the morning (they won - so much excitement there), then met up with my golf team after a match and had tea with them (obviously i'm not playing at the moment!!), then picked up DD from weekend away, then home for nice dinner cooked by DH. Busy but manageable . Felt a bit tired and achey first thing but that's gone now so I hope the Tax effect has worn off until the next dose.

Joining Malt to wait for Downton.

So true about M and S and their bras.
I had my mastectomy 10 years ago and even then they were doing BC campaigns but you couldn't find one for love nor money
I eventually had a reconstruction, but that was after resorting to the Amoena catalogue. Does that still exist, it used to come in a brown paper envelope?
Swimming costumes and bikinis were another that was impossible to get.
Sounds like they haven't changed much but they're not the only shop.

Glad you had a lovely day KitKat xx

really come and join me and malt and our pity party.

Looking forward to Downton though and then shall be off to bed.

Tomorrow will be better.

Kitkat I'm glad you've had a good day too no point us all being miserable

And even Downton was miserable !! Bedtime.

Morning - does the lack of posts mean that everyone slept all night - I do hope so.

I'm up with the kids and then going out for coffee with some mums from DSs school - something I can't normally make so looking forward to that. Then got to work this afternoon .

Morning kitkat I'm sadly a non sleeper think I saw every hour on the clock! As for not posting, didn't want to leave a pile of whiney posts for you all too wake up too! So I'll shut up now! I'll leave those having a better time, to share their happier posts!

Hopefully I'll be back a bit cheerier soon.

Hope foofoo and malt have a better day xx

Wishing everyone else a good day xx

Morning everyone. I hope folks are feeling a bit better today?

I feel like I slept most of the weekend I did! but the end result is I'm not feeling totally knackered just sitting still, so it obviously did me good.

Off to visit the kids at (my work) school this afternoon. Not seen them since the end of June, so I bet they are all grown up now as they are now in Y3. (Or maybe that's just my Y3 DD?)

Wish it was Thursday already, just want the last one done now.

Oh and MAS small world, your DH coming from down the road from me. I have quite a few cousins that live in and around the Ollerton/Newark area still.

X-post really .
I can definitely recommend getting out for a walk if you can. Even on days when I've really had to force myself to go out I come home feeling much better.

going out for some air is really good idea - I go a bit mental if indoors for long !
betsy -it is a small world- dh was v eager to get out of Ollerton asap and to be frank it is quite dismal -though the countryside around is lovely. MIL lives there so we do go up fairly often-other ILs live in Arnold and Carlton. T loves it there but he loves anywhere you need to travel to and is very keen on family stuff,bless him. I am avoiding a half term visit by working (and the stress of going away) (guilty as MIL says she'd like to see me)

Foo foo downton was uncomfortable viewing wasn't it
Betsy enjoy going into school bet they will be pleased to see you

Morning All

Mas how's your mum today ?
How long do they think they will keep her in for ?

Gigs you're quiet , did you party too much on Saturday ?

Ruby how are you doing ?
Hope you've made some lovely new friends and are settling in at uni x

Amber I am loving seeing your pics
You've seen some fantastic places !

DH gone to work , DC gone to school , coffee in one hand , remote control in the other . Downton here I come !

MAS how is your Mum? Sounds like she is on another of these long painful journeys. Hope they are keeping her comfortable.

Topsy no hangover and I 'd got you several litres of fat coke as well.....

I'm afraid i'm giving up on Downton now we have crazy Carrie and my favourite orange man (and I have soft spot for Mandy Patinkin who I have seen in a couple of musicals, he sometimes slips in references) back on t'other side

gigs and I are on a jaunt today, it'll be like Thelma and Louise but with a blue badge, though some debate about who is the young blonde pretty one so maybe it is two Thelma's.... just have to take the carful to the dump that DH has been saying he will take for the last week getting a bit fed up of him treating me like the default option whenever he doesn't feel like doing something, he isn't the one that has to go to work anymore

Note topsy MY favourite orange man, mines

Yes Gigs, come back. Hope quiet just because busy. xx

Getting out definitely a good idea if you can, really. Hard some days, I know.

Betsy is your DD at same school you work at? Yr3 is when they start to grow up I think, but they're still so teeny.

Have a nice coffee with the other mums, kitkat.

MAS, hope your mum's okay-ish when you visit. Are you taking your dad? Can't remember if he's still okay to drive or not, but all that too-ing and fro-ing must be tiring for him.

Wishing everyone an okay day. Better do some work..

I've come back from a lovely weekend away (another of my "good" weekends). Great weather - nice places to visit, good B&B and evening meals and all finished off with a fairly posh afternoon tea out (left over cakes and scones can be transferred to trolley).
After 5 lots of tax (and the cold DH kindly gave me) I am feeling much more tired than earlier in treatments. Next chemo is on Thursday and may be my last unless Oncologist thinks I need 8 rather than 6 (in which case I shall probably be asleep all November).
Tax side effects are starting to get to me now I don't really get an almost normal period in the cycle. Skin under nails now quite brown. Finger tips and soles of feet rather numb. Slight nausea fairly constant (though I managed to eat a 2 course meal - and ate afternoon tea - without mishap). Slightly regret now that I decided not to see Onc for 6 weeks rather than the usual 3 as I now have to wait until the end of this month to see what is next on the plan.
< scurries off to find dark hole for hibernation >

I hope Thursday is your last one too Lily. I don't think I could cope with 6 rounds of tax, let alone 8!

Smee I work at a different school to DD/DS. I used to volunteer one afternoon a week at my DC's school and I'm a governor there, so it is interesting to compare the two. The school I work at is a good school, but I think I prefer my DCs school for most things but then I'm biased

pigeons and gigs have a lovely day out :)

MAS how's your DM? (and DF, must have been a shock for him too)

Well I've managed to walk the school run without feeling totally wiped out today (I was wiped out after it every day last week...) - so good to feel a bit better, but it looks like my "good week" is going to be a "good 3 days" this time! Still when I start feeling better next time I know it's just going to carry on hopefully and it's not getting better ready to do it all again :)

am seeing mum this afternoon- friend S is joining me-am off to Waitrose to stock up on treats. Dad going this evening - he can drive ok- so that's a relief. Think ma will be there for some time (it was over 3 weeks last time) everything complicated by Parkinson's but we'll get through it. Thank goodness for my car park pass and that there's a Costa there. I think my car could take itself to hospital as it's such a familiar route ! Actually,am pleased it's not mid winter as roads to it are v treacherous in bad weather.
Have a jolly Thelma and Louise day with gig pigeons
love to all xxx

curiously,think it'll be a nice break for my dad as he is mum's carer and he does practically everything for her. He can do some work and painting and generally go off to do stuff he can't otherwise do,so it'll give him a boost. As always,he is stoic as is my mum.