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Re: Cancer Australia FAQs COVID-19 Vaccine
I can understand hesitancy but I’m a lot more afraid of the virus if we have a third surge. Not just getting it but possibly passing it on to someone else. We’re not clear till the rest of the world is. Like many, I never had a thought about getting breast cancer - statistically an awful lot more likely to occur than a very rare type of clotting. Everyone has to make their own choices, but there are risks with flu shots too. Certainly talk to your oncologist about any increased risks, in regard to your particular case and treatment. Best wishes.
Afraser
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Re: The things people say
Don't forget the kale - you absolutely must surround yourself with kale.
Sister
5
Re: The things people say
@FLClover - Sometimes people dont think or they have foot in mouth disease. Others have strong biases to natural therapies which give them comfort but im personally more wedded to science. We cant change one another. I think it is well meaning in the majority of cases. Ive lost track of how often ive been told to be strong or be positive.
Has led to some funny things actually. I was given quite a heavy crystal by wellmeaning friend which was supposed to heal me. Put in my handbag and forgot about it. In the height of chemo, breathless and struggling, i said to husband my handbag is so heavy. He looked through it and said do you know you have a rock in it?
Has led to some funny things actually. I was given quite a heavy crystal by wellmeaning friend which was supposed to heal me. Put in my handbag and forgot about it. In the height of chemo, breathless and struggling, i said to husband my handbag is so heavy. He looked through it and said do you know you have a rock in it?
MicheleR
5
Re: The things people say
I had a bilateral mastectomy in October 2019. I was visited in hospital by my two neighbours, new to Australia. They were lovely, full of good wishes, and, as they were leaving, the husband took my hand and told me not to worry, saying, “they will start to grow again soon”.
Re: Public hospital mixed wards includes breast cancer surgery patients
I work in the surgical ward of a public hospital. We run at pretty much 100% capacity every day. For the vast majority of time we have girls and boys rooms. Nobody ever wants to mix the rooms but occasionally we have to. We will move people around later on if we can. Simple fact is if you've had surgery you need a bed and sometimes it's not in an ideal spot.The logisics of managing a smooth running ward is probably far more difficult than what people would think. Mostly it's some form of organised chaos. The time frame between discharges and incoming patients is a very fine line. .
90 % of the time our BC patients are given a single room. If that is impossible due to the acuity of the ward, or patients that are expected to go home but don't things can get interesting.
Our nurses will shuffle, outlie and do what ever they can to give the single room and keep same sex rooms.
It would be an absolute last choice to put a BC patient in a room with men.
Maybe it depends who's running the ward at whatever hospital as well.
90 % of the time our BC patients are given a single room. If that is impossible due to the acuity of the ward, or patients that are expected to go home but don't things can get interesting.
Our nurses will shuffle, outlie and do what ever they can to give the single room and keep same sex rooms.
It would be an absolute last choice to put a BC patient in a room with men.
Maybe it depends who's running the ward at whatever hospital as well.
kezmusc
7
Re: Scanxiety - does it ever REALLY go away?
@Cath62 I can totally relate to your surprise at your reaction. I had my first mammogram after treatment Jan 2021 & although had been nervous in the weeks/months leading up to it, was feeling ok about being able to cope. To my horror, just as the kind lady was about to squash my boob I started sobbing 😭 uncontrollably. The strength of the emotion was overwhelming & seemed to come from nowhere, my legs were almost collapsing beneath me. In the end I needed the lady to stay next to me to support me during the scan & she got another person to operate the controls. I’m hoping I manage better for the next one.
I think your quote is spot on @iserbrown - it’s remembering the fear and trauma we’ve been through. Kind of like a post traumatic response in some ways.
Re: Friday Funnies
How true is this?? AND we were GAME!! And ... AND we survived!!
How did we survive?
1. Our sandwiches contained leftover roast chicken; we didn’t have fridges in classrooms or ice bricks in our lunch boxes, but we didn’t get food poisoning.
2. We rode bikes without helmets or adult supervision or bike paths but we mostly just ended up with bloody knees.
3. Our mothers wiped our faces with spit on a hanky not an antibacterial wipe.
4. Tuck shop was sausage rolls and cream donuts but kids were wiry and fast.
5. Our parents rarely knew our teachers’ names, let alone their NAPLAN prep strategy.
6. When our teachers would whack us, we wouldn’t tell our parents for fear of getting punished again, so we avoided trouble in the first place.
7. Our trampolines were net-less and sometimes hosed with water and a squirt of Palmolive detergent for extra slipperiness.
8. What was said on the playground stayed on the playground.
9. We went on camps and excursions without 18 forms to be signed and witnessed.
10. As toddlers, we rode in supermarket trolleys without padded trolley liner thingies.
11. Angry teachers were treated with caution. We just prayed for a nice one next year.
12. Weekends were about our parents’ social lives. As kids, we played murder in the dark while parents talked with their friends and forgot we existed.
13. Generally, we went to the closest school, not the best one.
14. Kids got scared before parent-teacher interviews, not teachers.
15. We got ourselves to Saturday sport and told tall tales about how the win was won.
16. Helping with the washing up was as important as homework.
17. Birthday parties were fairy bread and Fanta, not fruit kebabs and face painting.
18. When a kid was injured, people felt sorry for her parents. They didn’t ask what the hell were they thinking letting her climb that tree anyway.
19. Cubby houses were built by kids not bought from Toys R Us.
20. If you did badly in a test, you got a talking to, not a cuddle.
21. A pocket-knife was a perfectly acceptable gift for a 10-year-old.
22. If anyone got air conditioning in their bedroom, it was mum and dad.
23. Family holidays came before kids’ sporting schedules.
24. Your dad’s desire to watch Four Corners trumped your need to watch Battlestar Galactica.
25. A teacher could put mercurochrome on a scraped knee without obtaining our parents’ permission and completing an ‘incident report’.
26. A playdate was walking to a friend’s house, ringing the doorbell and saying, ‘Can Cathy come and play?’
27. School excursions happened without a ‘risk assessment’ and a two to one kid / parent volunteer ratio.
28. There was no padding on netball hoop posts.
29. No one wrote names on cups at parties.
30. You could offer your friend a bite of your hot dog.
31. If the bus driver yelled at you, the bus driver didn’t get in trouble, you did.
32. If you didn’t make a team, you tried harder or tried something else.
33. Pass the parcel had one winner.
34. There was one kind of milk. It was full cream and it was delicious.
35. Meat was bought at the butcher, and was packed without a use-by date. Our parents used their noses to tell if the mince was off.
36. Getting one present on your Christmas wish list was good result.
37. Drives that were longer than an hour happened without supplies of rice crackers and juice.
38. Going to the shops/church/the nursing home to visit Nan was boring as hell but could be endured without an iPad.
39. School holidays were about not being at school, not soccer workshops, art classes and pony camp.
40. Being tired was no excuse for being rude.
41. You had to do something great to get a ‘student of the week’ award. Not just show up at school
arpie
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