Zombie's journey with breast cancer

[IamtheZombie]

The thread that Val started has now been moved to General Health. www.mumsnet.com/Talk/general_health/2016081-Zombie-needs-her-limbs-holding?msgid=46439734

Please keep posting there if you wish.

As most of you know, I'm having my second mastectomy on Thursday. I will almost certainly need to have more chemotherapy.

This is my thread for those who wish to walk beside me on my journey.

fx she did, but if no eyes I'll send you a pack of Sharpies to draw them!

what is Desdemona exactly? I admit I'm only guessing it's to drain fluid from site of operation, is that correct?
I hope it doesn't hurt.

Yes, Desdemona is my drain. It's more uncomfortable than painful. Unless I accidently tug on her. Then it's an OUCH. I haven't done that since yesterday.

umm, now you can't do anything

Wine. Wine dulls pain right?

Have you ever fallen over on a night out and been all 'taadaa' and the next day been all 'a aargh, that must have huuuurt'
That's because of magical wine...

Wine has many magical properties, Alpaca. Becky and I have had a bottle or two and a bit with our roast.

Currently considering the wisdom of champagne later...

for later!

Sending you Easter blessings Zombie

Glad you are the medicinal wine

Wishing you another restful night.

Wine is the answer to most things.

Happy Easter Z

Glad you had a good night, you are one amazing woman, here's to another ten hours sleep tonight .

Happy Easter Zombie, glad you're feeling ok and enjoying wine!

Hope Desdemona isn't giving you
too much trouble, I know how painful it can be to accidentally knock one x

Hi Zombie, hope it's all going well today.

It is, Alpaca.

Becky will be leaving in about 20 minutes. It's been fabulous having her here to keep me company.

I have a confession. I've not just sat around letting her wait on me. I've been doing as much (mainly cooking) as I can. I needed to make sure that I could take care of myself before she left. I've also gone for a very short (1 mile round trip) drive to the garage down the road this afternoon. I'm not planning any long drives for a while but, again, at least I now know that I'm OK to drive that far if I need to pop out for bread or milk.

The District Nurse rang this morning. We agreed that they would come tomorrow to remove the drain and change my dressing.

All in all, I'm feeling very well.

Ooh, can we post you pointless luxuries?

Pointless luxury is always good, Liney.

Good to hear you're regaining some independence, don't over do it though.

What did your lovely neighbour do in your garden?

Bee, he's made a start on strimming the lawns (grass far too high to mow), deadheading things that should have been deadheaded last year and general tidying.

I've had a lovely long nap. ZombieCats want their dinner. I think I'll have poached eggs on mashed potato for my dinner. (Becky made industrial quantities of mash last night.)

Ooh, that sounds like a lovely dinner Zombie

What does actually constitute a pointless luxury? So far I have in my list:

After Eights
Shiny notebooks

It's not a very good list.

Very much comfort food, Alpaca. Also very tasty!

Cheese for Zombie, I think, LineRunner.

Cheesy mash

Am I allowed to post cheese? It would be handy to get through the letterbox. Unless you want a complete Edam, Zombie. That could be troublesome.

I'm not sure that there is any such thing as a pointless luxury.

Isn't a luxury something that makes you feel fabulous?

If it achieves that, surely it's not pointless?

Maybe unnecessary, as far as survival goes, but not pointless.

We need a new definition.

I'll be back

Hurry up!