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A Beautiful Mother's Day, but am feeling pretty shabby!
Sunday 13 May 2012 ------------------------------------------------------------------- I have had a beautiful Mother's Day today! Did the Mother's Day Classic 2012 Breast Cancer Research 4km Walk, with wonderful family and friends. The support I have recieved has been so unbeliveable and you all have no idea how much it…
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Not feeling very Flash!!
Saturday 12 May 2012 --------------------------------------------------------------- Op and Chemo done! Was a super long day, with me being up at 4am and sleep at 830pm and then I have been up this morning since 4am again! Op went well. Port is in which will make chemo and blood tests easy! Bloody hurts though. Scars…
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Today is a shitty day!
Monday 16 April 2012 Today I having a shitter of day! Woke up today feeling great, postive, ready to take on the day!! But slowly and surely, it has become shittier and shittier. Everything is overhelming me: the messiness that my house is in, my laundry pile, the mess that Zoe keeps making, the moldy pototos that I found…
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Good News
Went to Chemo yesterday, 1st dose of Dositaxyl or Taxitore as some say, so glad NOT to have the "Red Devil' crap! Woke up feeling quite drunk tho, and wobbly legs! No Nausea. My Onoclogist, Dr Scarlett, said my blood count is good, and I only have two more chemo's to go instead of 5! He doesnt want to push it. Off to radio…
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Single, 40 and approaching matsectomy
IS there anyone who can offer support to a newly diagnosed 40 year old recently single woman who is in Tassie and facing a mastectomy in the next few weeks? She would love to be in touch with someone in her age group - hasn't got access to computer at present but I could pass on contact details.
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Chemo is over!!!!
It is 5 weeks since my last chemo and I sit here now thinking....did that all happen??? It feels like a dream. For the first time in 5 months I cleaned my house yesterday...all by myself!!! It was such an awesome feeling doing this for myself and not needing any help. I never thought that house work could be such an…
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One year on..........
Hey everyone, I'ts been a while since I blogged on here so I thought I'd share my thoughts with you all. I'ts nearly a year ago now on the 6-6-2011 since my diagnoses & I seem to be more nervous than ever before & anxiously thinking about bc more than I have been in the past several months..... My next check up isn't until…
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Mother's Day Classic
Many thanks to BCNA's stellar volunteers - Leslie, Sue, Baiba, Kathy, Judi and Moira - who set up and ran the BCNA stall at the Melbourne Mother's Day Classic on Sunday. It was a cold, wet, miserable day in Melbourne, but they were there from 6am with their smiles and good humour. Luckily the coffee stand was nearby! This…
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Mothers Day Classic
I'm just back from running in the Mothers Day Classic. It is raising money for breast cancer research which I am obviously in favour of, but I hated it. I don't mean any offence to anyone and I think it would be a good thing for people who are honouring their friend or relative who has passed away but for me personally as…
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3rd round of chemo
I had my 3rd shot of FEC 5FU and im fine! I was reading storys of it being the worst, but this was my best! Maybe because i had it in Bairnsdale instead of travelling al the way to sale, and the unit is much more pleasant to be in, and lunch was yummy. the drugs went in differently and i was out and home in 4 hrs instead…
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Today is no better
I just cant seem to get out of this depression haze. The tears are flowing and I can not pull myself out of it. My beautiful 4yo daughter has had to entertain herself today.I have so far managed to hide the tears from her. I feel like this journey is never going to end. I have always been the stong one in my family. Fixing…
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The waiting game
Hi, My name is Carole and I am 68, was diagosed with breast cancer 16 Feb 2012, I have 2 invasive ductile carcinomas, 1 is a grade 2 and the other grade 3, a biopsy to the lymph node was also positive. I am going through the public system and have found all the heathcare workers to be wonderful. My surgeon strongly advised…
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My daughters Facebook status
My 20 year daughter posted this as her Facebook stays yesterday whilst I was having my 5th chemo, thought I would share it with you: " Watching my mum fight cancer has shown me how strong she really is, all kids say that there mum is strong, but mine? Mine is the definition of strength, seeing her hurt, cry, in pain, ache,…
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Where im at...
Its 8 weeks today since diagnosis of triple neg DCIS4, intrusive, evasive, aggressive. Ive undergone a lumpectomy, a R breast removal, auxillery clearance ( 1/17 with cancer), several lung, bone, liver, chest CT's and scans, a Barium X-ray soon due to swollowing difficulties, I had a 'Port' put in last wednesday and now im…
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Depression and anxiety
I have finally come to the realisation that my subconscious is an uncontrollable beast that has been torturing me for the last 6 months. No amount of logic, reasoning or counselling seems to be able to control the nightmares that wake me regularly. I now accept that my subconscious will work through every possible scenario…