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thats a bit of a bummer about your foot, but great to hear you husband is helping you through this, what would we do without them eh.  Where do you live? do you have hospitals near you. i have to travel 650k's to get to adelaide, then the return journey home, so a bit of a long one, but they have good cancer council hotels there, which are a godsend for country people. please let me know how you go with chemo, thinking of you and wish you all the best. i went to a look good feel better session, and we had some fun, so hope you enjoy it X Moira

what a bummer June. I hope it isn't broken and you are up and about soon. Lucky you not having a reaction to the radiation. With any luck the chemo will go the same way,

Lynne

Hello Moria

Going well with radiotherapy with only two more sessions next week and then a month off until I start Chemo.

Have had no reaction at all to the treatments so lucky.

Wasnt so lucky yesterday - when coming out of hospital and had a fall and have a very sore foot. I heard a crack and was sure that I broke a bone but Dr didnt think so but didnt order an Xray. Very bruised today and still feel there may be a fracture there so today just sitting and getting about with great difficulty. We are home for the weekend and Tom (husband) is very good in the house has put the washing out and has been to the shops

Could have done without this.

Had a bone scan yesterday and gated heart scan next Wednesday and then we will be home thank goodness.

How are things going with you.

Enjoying our contact.

Cheers  June

hi June, probably the best way to contact people is to click on my blog, and write there, more people will talk in a new blog, hope things are still going ok with the Radiotherapy, and the thing is to take things as they come, some people dont have any reaction to chemo, so fingers crossed. do you know how many sessions you are going to have? speak soon

Hi moira

Am still trying to find my way around the site.

Had radiotherapy session 20 of 25 yesterday sofar all not too bad. I start chemo on 7th December which I am  not looking forward to.

I have been reading alot of the postings and find them interesting. Yours is the only reply I have received to date.

Have put my name down for a local Feel good workshop which is on 17th Nov.

Regards  June

hi Collinbee, and welcome to our site, you are in the right place, you can just click on my blog, and you can type anything you want to say to the ladies, we have ladies on here who have just been diagnosed, through to long term survivors, and there are all age groups as well, therefore a wealth of information on here, from a great bunch of women, please feel free to add me to your contacts i will be away for a couple of days, but if you need any help with the site then search for Di (she is the site administrator at bcna). look forward to talking with you. Moira

hi Collinbee, and welcome to our site, you are in the right place, you can just click on my blog, and you can type anything you want to say to the ladies, we have ladies on here who have just been diagnosed, through to long term survivors, and there are all age groups as well, therefore a wealth of information on here, from a great bunch of women, please feel free to add me to your contacts i will be away for a couple of days, but if you need any help with the site then search for Di (she is the site administrator at bcna). look forward to talking with you. Moira

Have just joined this today and finding my way around so need some help for the next step.

I had a lumpectomy in September and am now half way through radiotherapy.

I was told just this week that I also have to have Hercetin. At age 76 I am finding the going abit tough at present.

I am in Brisbane, well a northern suburb of Brisbane to be exact. I know what you mean when you talk about doing up shoelaces! Buttons are my best friends!....as are scarves!

I was shocked when I saw my scar. In the book I only glanced at the picture and I thought "I can cope with that." It was only about 3 inches max! When I saw mine from the armpit to the middle I had another look at the book and this time looked properly. Her scar was quite faded and didn't show up very well. Mine looks like Great Grandma with her teeth out! Really really ugly!

I was a public patient but I have no complaints about the treatment from the nursing staff in a public hospital. They were wonderful

Lynne

Hi Lyn

Sorry you are feeling down.  I felt the same and was really self conscience in clothes and god forbid if you kids asked me to do up their shoelaces and had to bend over (this would instill fear in me) that someone would see my scars, hollow etc.

Where abouts are you that you are on a wait list?  Check out the website Breast Angels, I do not have too much info, but they (and I could be wrong) believe that no women should have to wait for a reconstruction.  I am assuming you are a public patient.  I was private, but only stepped up my converage 6 months prior and was out of pocket $267.00.  Maybe that is an option too. 

For the record reconstruction has given me back some confidence, but there is still no way my husband is gonna see these with the scars from my armpit to the centre of my chest.. So whilst I am happy that I have had the reconstruction, they are still a long way from perfect.  I have a sticker on my wall that says "hell yer, they are fake, the real ones almost cost me my life".

Sorry you are feeling crap, BC has given you enough grief.  I will do some research when you tell me which state you are in and see if someone knows there way around the system.  I don't take no for an answer very often any more.

Talk soon.

Tanya xx