Cancer support thread 62 - here comes the sun (hopefully)

[WhatWouldLeslieKnopeDo]

Good evening

Our previous thread is here

If you've got cancer, this is the thread for you. Introduce yourself and feel free to ask any questions. We also welcome anyone who is waiting for cancer tests. We know how scary it can be. So don't be shy. We will happily hold your hand and hopefully wave goodbye when you get good news :)

Hello all.....
Leslie you're a marvel as ever...hope all is good and you're enjoying the sunsh8ne.
Just delurking to say how sorry I am about Nicky...she was so amazingly stoic that I hadn't taken on board how ill she was. My thoughts are with her family...I hope she is at peace
Sorry to all the newbies...May your visit here be brief
I'm a BC patient....and don't post much because I'm nearly a year away from active treatment... but I do lurk a lot so if anyone has a BC question do ask and I will answer to the best of my ability...!!
Meanwhile I'm doing the moonwalk....eeeeeeek...think of me a week Today....
Love to all...thinking of you xx

freddie good luck with the moonwalk!

Regina their website is here and there’s a MN topic for them here :)

Waving to helly. How are you getting on?

Good luck @Freddie
And thanks @whatwould I shall have a gander later on. I've decided safest option is likely a vegan diet for him. Which is apt considering his nickname is beef

@whatwould. Sorry wrong post on wrong thread....jesus wept. I will have a look at the wooly hugs thing now.
Ignore me when I do stuff like that. Ditsy isnt the word

Hi everyone.

Busy day today. Went to vet with the cat and ended up with the dog needing tests. Luckily both are fine. I've been had a test too. A pregnancy one . A friend suggested as I'm late. I'm 46 though so can't be. Dh been snipped. Test looks mainly negative.

Thank you Penguins for the reassurance.

@year glad your dog and cat are ok. Hope it wasn't anything to bad for them. What breed of dog is it. My oh suprised me with a dog a few months back a 6 month old rescue pup. Cursed him at first because i have 3 small children and never stop as it is. But i woukdnt be wothout the mad little hairball now.
Mainly negative ? Really hoping you get your scan soon. I'm dreading mine. Swinging from thinking I'm being ridiculous and hoping it's just my diet to an absolute horrifying sense of dread. So I am now eating chocolate and snuggling the dog to cheer me up. This time tomorrow I'll hopefully know a bit more about what's going on.

Both animals slightly underweight but they are okay. Just means YearCat can have daily treat sticks and YearDog can have a big Saturday night treat! YearDog is a golden retriever.

Dh thinks there's only one line. I thought two. We'll see.

I plan on eating chocolate soon. Feeling a bit fed up suddenly.

Enjoy your snuggles.

Thanks for the advice on wristband (I didn’t start a separate thread about it, just plopped it into the main Parkrun thread). Ran today, happy enough with time - first time since the aspiration 10 days ago. If I’d still a bit sore tbh. Seems to take longer to heal each time,

But I’m fairly determined to be that irritating person who is the cause of so much foot-in-mouth disease , when you’re newly diagnosed and someone decides to attempt to cheer you up by talking about ‘so-and-so who has cancer and who’s fine and who runs marathons you know’ (well, aiming for half marathons - good to have a goal)

Moonwalk is marathon length, isn’t it? So

Had my appointment today - just appointment and urine test today but he gave 14 days antibiotics, very happy to have those and seems to be stopping the pain.

He also is getting me blood tests on Tuesday, a 3 day record of issues, a CT scan and a ultrasound and I have my gynae follow up on 15th so appointments at 10am, 11am and 7pm that day. Doctor seemed really good.

Then went to see some countryside, had a meal out and cinema - lovely day out but DD is in the mood from hell.

Regina good luck with your ultrasound today

penguins it sounds like he's very thorough so that's good. Did he have any suggestions of what might be causing the bleeding? I'm glad you had a good day, but sorry about DD.

iVampire very impressive. I feel like I deserve a medal just for climbing the stairs at the moment

Year maybe test again in a few days? There's always an advert on telly for one that says "pregnant" or "not pregnant" rather than a line, but I expect it costs three times as much as the normal ones!

Regina - best of luck for today

penguins - glad you have antibs n your day was nice, hopefully you will get some answers soon.

I had a proper melt down yesterday, pretty much out of the blue, I never cry or let myself feel like a sufferer but the combination of the warm weather, wearing a wig and when not, feeling like an overweight extra from This is England got to me. So I firstly got mad and then I cried and cried and snotted and shouted and still felt sad, fat and bald - so that did me no good at all!!! I'm going to try again today to be the usual strong and determined Woman that I am and push the thoughts n feelings out of my head.

@what thankyou very much. Don't know why I'm so bloody nervous
@penguins hopefully you'll start feeling a lot better soon. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you
@year hope your feeling better today. I crashed on the sofa not long after that post last night. So exhausted its unnatural. Also I find the best pregnancy tests are the cheap strip ones if you need to retest
@mc I hope your feeling better today sometimes a good cry snot and everything else that comes with it is just whar you need to blow off steam. You are a beautiful strong kick ass woman and you can do this. Enjoy the weather have a nice cold beer or wine and just relax. Sending lots of love

McZeba it's perfectly normal to get overwhelmed every once in a while. I get so grumpy sometimes. I try to hide in my bedroom until it passes otherwise I end up snapping at people cancer is tough, especially when you've got the extra worry. You don't have to be strong or brave here. Feel free to vent if you need to :) sometimes it's easier to say all of that stuff to others in a similar situation, then you can put your game face on for people in real life.

Regina I think it's perfectly understandable that you're nervous :) what time is your appointment? Hopefully this morning so you don't have too long to wait!

@what is at 3...so going to kill time taking my rugrats out to enjoy the sun. And try and get some sort of colour on my whiter than white skin

Leslie and Regina Thank you, it is easier to say it on here as I just don't want others to be affected by my Cancer. I also had a lovely message from an old friend who went through similar who said She can remember the amount of times She cried and thought she couldn't keep going, but did and day by day things got better. DH and I have just walked the Dog in the morning sunshine and I am wearing my 'Perfectly UnPerfect' T-shirt with just the one boob and feeling more like a Fighter today.

I will be thinking of you at 3pm Regina

I mean people around me, not others, it feels safer to say things here.

McZeba Sorry to hear you felt so bad, glad you managed to get out today. Your emotions are bound to be all over the place.

Regina Hope you have a lovely day out with the kids.

How are you today Leslie? Doctor said he thought it wouldn't be cancer but said its dangerous not to do a thorough check once over 40, he said NHS don't do this until 50 but its best to have it. He didn't say what else but there's lots of info online, can just be uti, kidney stones, inflammation, that type of thing, just read 1 in 5 is cancer. I think as I had a clear cystoscopy in February its likely to be clear though he did get excited when I said the ultrasound was fine before just enlarged bladder wall. Had been told before enlarged bladder wall wasn't uncommon but now wondering if you can get cancer there. I am not worried but would like the CT scan as that shows everything. The blood has gone brown now so I would have thought that more like a temporary issue like uti or kidney stones.

Love to everyone else and hope you can manage to enjoy or at least rest on this BH weekend.

WWLKD - that's my plan. I only used one from the pound shop.

McZeba - tell yourself you used up calories raging. Every cloud and all that.

Regina we'll all be with you at 3.

Good luck with the scan at 3pm Regina

Good luck Regina

Thanks ladies ovaries and uterus are good. However stark warning from the ultrasound avout making sure I get a cervical check. Told me to make sure I ring Drs on Tuesday. So halfway there I guess. Just a pain not knowing whats going on. Hope you all had a nice day x

Regina at least the scan on ovaries etc was clear , one less worry, although I understand things aren't all in the clear.

@mc I'm a glass half full kinda person so in taking it as a mini win. Just be nice to feel human again sometime soon

It's good to take any win you can, MissRP.

Good news on the uterus and ovaries front Regina. Fingers crossed for your cervix too!