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Oh callgirl I am so sorry to hear about your son. That is a real blow and a lot to take in
It does sound as if you have a marvellous GP though.

Daisyboots,so sorry to hear of this latest setback, I hope you`re feeling better soon.
Izabella,I hope you`re not too sore.
Soop, your outfit sounds delightful, have a good weekend.
A doctor from our surgery came round yesterday to see Lynne yesterday. He said we needed to make an appointment at the fracture clinic, but then decided to do it himself. I`m glad he did, they gave him a right old runaround! He rang the main hospital number, took ages to answer, then was put through to the nurses station in A&E, again ages to answer, who said he had to speak to appointments. He rang them, they said all Lynne`s details had been passed to orthopaedics, so he rang them, and they denied all knowledge of the case! After 45 minutes of trying, he said "I`m going down there, they need a rocket under them." An hour or so later, a phone call from the fracture clinic with an appointment for Tuesday afternoon.
My eldest son went to see the oncologist yesterday, to discuss the result of his scan. The mass in his lung has grown, so much that it`s blocking his lung off, which is why he`s so short of breath. He can`t have any more chemo or radiotherapy, they`re going to try a new drug, injected every 3 weeks for 2 years, because it can`t be given for any longer than that. If after a while of taking it, it doesn`t look to be working, they`ll stop, and there will be nothing else they can do. We`re all still trying to take it in.

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Hello from the wet and windy south coast where we’re enjoying hunkering down with ds and family. We managed a walk by the sea on the day we arrived and again briefly this morning. The prom was covered in shingle, courtesy of the stormy weather and this morning some brave possibly mad souls were taking full advantage of the windy weather!

Sad to hear the sad news of the panaches but so glad that at last they have kind and supportive folk around them. Thanks lins for letting us know. Dear me callgirl what a terrible time for your daughter, here’s hoping she gets some support via PALS.

Sounds like you too have some good friends around you izabella I hope you’re not too ouchy after your adventures! n&g I do like your rationale, I’ll sign up to that one!

Hats off to those of you who are juggling chemo, unwanted mets and various other associated health issues while meanwhile managing to keep on keeping on through it all - and often with a smile too. toya

Stay safe in this stormy weather kitcheners! x

Thank you Lins for the update about Panache and her DH. They have had so many troubles and difficulties, but thank goodness that at last they are receiving help and support from many quarters. The news is not good,sadly, but I will keep them in my thoughts.
Callgirl your poor daughter must be in agony. How very negligent of the hospital. I do hope she is starting to feel some relief from the pain now.
TOYA.

Thank you Chicken Izabella and Charleygirl.
Chicken I do take cranberry tablets which I why I didnt realise I had a UTI until it hit my kidneys. But I havent heard of D mannose before so will look into that. I so want to feel better because my eldest DD and my lovely son in law are arriving Wednesday.
Poor Izabella I feel your pain with your fall. My DH has taken to falling out of bed the last few months. He wont agree to a bed guard though. With the state of my spine I have to wear a full length back brace to protect it because I can be prone to falling.
TOYA

Yes soop your outfit sounds very smart but I would expect no less from you! Enjoy your weekend.

I hope you just have a bruised ego * Izabella*.

Daisyboots the extension of your mets is indeed a buggeration. Maybe the new chemo will not involve hair loss. Mine is beginning to grow back on the new regime.

Gathered up the energy to go to Sainsburys. I wanted to pick up a part prescription that they kept telling me was unavailable. They told me that as it was longer than 28 days since I put the original script in they could not give it to me and would have sent it back. I asked if they had sent it back and they said no because it hadn’t come in! We have to go to the doctor and get a new script!

Morning all!

Storm Denis is arriving post haste here with the wind howling round the house and flurries of rain here and there !

We shall be staying in !

Soop you sound your usual elegant self , I hope you have a wonderful weekend .

Sorry to hear of your new diagnosis Daisyboots . Glad you’re getting the UTI sorted , they are debilitating aren’t they ?

GrannyG - baby cuddles are my favourite . Lucky you!

Ann sorry you’re feeling low . I always think 99% people can think what they like of me because I either don’t know them, they don’t know me or I will never see them again !! As for the 1% - well those that mind don’t matter and those that matter won’t mind ! ??

A friend rang me today after 9.30 am and I was asleep. Tara heard the phone so she was then trying to persuade me to move which I did. I decided to let her out because here it is the calm before the storm. She would have worn her lungs out with her screaming.

It is not cold here, no heating on yet. I stocked up with food yesterday- I need to wash clothes.

soop that outfit is very smart- I do hope you have a good time.

Daisyboots please rest and you also Izabella. It sounds as though you both need help from me.
TOYA

Morning. Thank you charleygirl Please convey my deepest respect to the dear lady ?

An unscheduled and unexpected fall in the night has left me with a sore shoulder and injured pride. I also fell out of bed the other night, so unsure who is looking after whom at chez Izabella at the moment.

annesixty a friend and I (she now helps me on the forums) were chatting about your dislike of the thought of an autopsy. Rather fittingly her OH was a mortuary attendant. He assures me you wouldn't feel a thing!

Quilts, spare beds and towels have been tidied away, hearing aids sorted out (why do they all look the same) and milk brought in. Bread will be defrosted and brunch prepared. We await the arrival of Denis surrounded by friends, laughter and a full fridge. The wood burner will be lit later. I only hope the people previously affected by floods suffer no more.

daisyboots so sorry to hear your news. I send thoughts of strength and fortitude to you - and or course to everyone else who is struggling.

Daisyboots, sorry that you are feeling so poorly. UTIs are really miserable, aren't they, especially when they get up to the kidneys. My doctor told me to take D-mannose daily and cranberry tablets and it does seem to help reduce the number of attacks. How annoying that you have to start chemo again. Still, it's a good excuse to buy some beautiful scarves for your head! Best wishes.

Soop your outfit sounds lovely. Enjoy your weekend.
I havent been around for some days so have some catching up to fo. I have beeen feeling really poorly since my bone scan last week and have spent more time in bed than out of it. One pain I thought I must have pulled a muscle by the back left side of my waist grabbing Sophiecat to stop her from escaping. Yesterday I wondered if I might have a UTI so took a sample with me when I went to see the oncoligist yesterday evening. I was quute expecting him to say to go to my family doctor but he didnt. He went into the day hospital and found a jar of testing sticks anf found that I have got a UTI which has reached my kidney. So antibiotics prescribed. Then the bad news that while the mets on my spine are stable the mets on my pelvis have extended so will be starting a different chemo in early March when the infection has gone. This time it will be oral tablets to be taken twice a day for 14 days and 7 days off then start again. Just as my hair was startingto grow nicely again it looks as though I will lose it again. Oh well life must go on.

Hope you enjoy your weekend soop I do like the sound of your outfit by the way. Very stylish.

GG13 that 90 minutes with a new baby sounds bliss.
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Safe trip soop, I know you’ll have a wonderful weekend.

TOYA.

Good luck soop with your trip to Edinburgh. Have a great weekend. Maybe our paths will cross without our even noticing. I hope to be on a train from Manchester to Edinburgh and thence to Dundee. The weather map has big orange splodges on it, denoting areas where the weather is expected to be worst - and they are right on my route. I wish Denis the Menace would blow away overnight! I've been looking forward to my week with my sister. Since we lost our other sister last year, time together is all the more precious.

Izabella Tara is my beautiful; black and white cat who thinks she rules this house.

She was not impressed when she was under house arrest last weekend for one day because of the storm. This weekend it may well be two days she will be indoors- mother really does know best.

Urmstongran DD dropped off 6 week old GS when she popped next door but one to pick up his big brother (5yr old) from school. So I have laid on the sofa for one and a half hours cuddling him whilst DD went upstairs for a much needed sleep. GrandpaGravy entertained the 5yr old!!!

dragonfly I must Google Gilbert's Syndrome. Just two more chemos to go. Well done, you. You are a star.

A poetic post, Izabella. Your evening meal sounds top drawer.

This will be all from me for the remainder of the week. I shall most surely return on Monday.

House is almost spotless. Laundry up to date. I have at last decided which outfit to wear. Much to MacS's relief. Not really, he's always very good when I go through the long-winded "what shall I wear" routine and make several trips back and forth to ask his opinion. Which I value. The bedroom, at one point, looked like a disaster zone. I was knee deep in clobber. So...what did I eventually settle for? My lovely tartan layered midi-kilt by Per Una, a soft grey polo neck sweater that son had given me for a birthday gift, a black linen, Spanish made swing top, that I've had for well over twenty years, thick tights and ankle boots...and a short gaberdene shower-proof cape with a chunky hand knitted scarf. Boy, oh boy! All this fuss to meet with a son, who, as a student, arrived at the airport for a trip to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia with a Tesco bag crammed with all his chattles. Fond memories of yesteryear. He later became an author/contributor for some of the Lonely Planet travel books.

I shall continue to think of you all. It's a given. Please behave in my brief absence. No bun fights. As if.

I do understand what you mean Maw but I am also struggling with other people’s perception of me before and since.

I have just done two classes at the gym (half hour and then an hour) feeling extremely weary so off for a nice hot shower and a rest on the sofa

Oh GrannyGravy13 such a well deserved rest too! The best kind really, after exercise and all those endorphins it generates. I remember it well. ...
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Nowadays I don’t exercise at all really. A nice long stroll in Spain but that’s about it. Not good enough really! I see all those posts on Mick’s ‘Good Morning’ thread - people going to play tennis or (you) off to the gym etc. - and I feel quite guilty.
#lazygran #amibothered?

This, a Spanish proverb, sums up my thoughts precisely:

There are plenty of days when I have absolutely no idea who I am meant to be

I have had an eventful week.

I had chemo on Friday but looked in the mirror on Tuesday and I was yellow!
I was told by the hospital to go in and after blood tests I was told my bilirubin levels were high but I was sent home.
My DS suggested I should lie under an ultraviolet light naked. That would give everyone a fright.
My oncologist called me in on Thursday and apparently my levels have been up for a few years. He thinks it is Gilbert’s Syndrome - not a cause for worry and shouldn’t affect my last two chemos.
He is so lovely though and I am considering taking him home with me!

Gosh what a lot of news to catch up on.

So sorry to hear about your DD’s arm Callgirl. I do hope they manage to reduce her pain.

Congratulations on the new baby in the family soop. Mia is gorgeous.

Good to get news on the Panaches so sad it is not better. Thank you Lins.

Like you Maw I hate to be categorised! I too am just me in my own right.

I refuse to consider myself a “widow” and when you have to tick those ghastly boxes about marital status, I tend to tick “married” (or ignore)
I hate the words “widow” and “widower”
It is so different from being a new bride when you can’t resist flashing your left hand at people, or ticking “married” and wanting to decorate it with hearts and flowers ?
Actually I don’t like being categorised at all, come to think of it, I am a mother, a mother in law, a grandmother , a friend, a greyhound nut, but basically I am ME!

It feels like many shades of grey in the shire this afternoon. The sky is pale grey and it looks as if we may have snow on the way. The trees are in monochrome and its cold outside. But we have snowdrops and primulas the cheer us, champagne in the fridge, and friends visiting later. The table is set for dinner and the duck awaits. Dinner will be a joint effort with me looking at oven temperatures and the clock and everyone else pitching in to help.

At the risk of causing offence, can someone remind me who Tara is please?

For all those missing loved ones please accept a hug and kind thoughts from me today. Also thinking of everyone else - as ever.

I should have added "been through" and "going through".