Who else can't sleep?

kmakm

@Kiwi Angel @JJ70 We were going to head to Fiji for our 20th wedding anniversary next year (actually wanted the Bahamas but the south Pacific a little more realistic!). We've never been overseas together and my husband loves a beach holiday (me not so much but he deserves one after taking on my niece (10) and nephew (12) at 60 and then looking after me for the last six months. He's a saint). I was going to save up the money from the job I was going to get this year... As with so much of life in the last decade, fate has spat in my eye. All our emergency money has gone, we've just found out my nephew needs orthodontic treatment (that'll be $7000 thanks) and the house is unfinished because the money that was put aside for that went into my chest.  

kmakm

@Kiwi Angel That heart thing should clear up in the next 4 - 6 weeks. Mine did it terribly, but round the five week mark after the end of the last three week cycle it stopped. Yours might come good quicker because you were way fitter going into chemo than I was. K xox 

Kiwi Angel

@kmakm. I think we definately have earned the right to whinge  . I have they Pilates/yoga video I got with the my journey kit so I might start with that and gentle walks and then up the intensity until I can at least start jogging part of the way. 

SoldierCrab

Ladies look into the Enrich exercise program by Cancer council in NSW not sure if it runs in other states. 
it is open to anyone who has had cancer and a carer/partner. 

https://www.cancercouncil.com.au/enrich/

Kiwi Angel

@kmakm we did a cruise round the Caribbean out of Miami 4 years ago for 7 years - I loved it so much and it was so beautiful - we want to do another one. The cruises over there are much cheaper than over here too - we just went with carnival and found them fine. We r tossing up between another month in the States as we love it over there or doing around a month I Europe as we haven’t been there and we aren’t getting any younger. The other night Africa and the Maldives (which has always been my dream) came up so it will all depend on money, what the foreign currency is doing and the what is happening in the region we are wanting to go. If we can’t save it will more likely be fortnight in Bali. It’s just a complete shitfight trying to get in front financially- it’s bad enough without adding cancer to the mix!  So u think u might be able to get a part time job later in the year/next year and ease into it. 

This coming Monday will of been my next cycle so it should all be nicely leeching out of my system - I figure it can only get better from there. 

Did u have a bone scan?  Is it like the MRI tube or more like a CT scan??

kmakm

@Kiwi Angel Hopefully a part-time job once I've got the kids off to school next year.

A bone density scan do you mean? If so, it's dead simple. You just lie on a table in a few positions and an arm with a bit of xray kit goes back and forth above you. Known as a DEXA. Easy.

Kiwi Angel

@kmakm - no I think it’s a bone scan where they use dye. My oncologist is doing it to be thorough and just to make sure that is all clear like my CT scan was and to put my mind at ease. 

It it will be nice to get back to work. I’m back to work as per normal tomorrow. Next week will be my first 42 hour week in awhile is I think I might be feeling quite exhausted. 

kmakm

@Kiwi Angel You are very lucky to have a doctor who is so solicitous of your mental and physical health. Just make sure you are too! 42 hours sounds like rather a lot for your first week back.

Kiwi Angel

@kmakm she has been very good so far. Happy to go through the list of questions I always take in with me. I am making sure to take it easy and let the other nurses do the heavy lifting 

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Kiwi Angel

@Joannie I have been incredibly lucky with my workplace - the whole time I have gone through surgery and chemo when I have been at work my boss and colleagues won’t let me do anything that could cause my undue harm or over exert me even I wanted too. I have been so lucky!!  

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Kiwi Angel

@Joannie - I don’t blame u - that is terrible for u. I would be wary of going back to that environment- they don’t seem very nurturing or supportive to your needs. I have been incredibly lucky and the boss is taking all of us out to a nice restaurant in a couple of weeks to celebrate me being cancer free. 

Kiwi Angel

Hot flashes and snoring husbands suck 

kmakm

They sure do @Kiwi Angel. I've had three big sweaty ones so far tonight. Hot flushes that is, not snoring husbands! *Boom tish*

The husband is giving me a break by sleeping on the spare bed tonight. I'm about to dose up on painkillers, dress my suture absesses and try to sleep. Good luck.