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I feel like Ive won the lottery!!
Have just spent the whole day having CT scans and Bone scans to see if this monster has spread.
IT HASNT. IM ALL CLEAR!!!
IM IN SHOCK!!
I have a bit of arthritis happening because Im getting old but thats all!!!
just need to get through my mastectomy and axillary clearance tomorow then I think I will feel like Ican begin to see a faint glimmer of a light!!
Thanks to you all for letting me whinge and sook and no doubt ill be doing more than that once Chemo starts xxx
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- Hey ladies - we should start a group where all the ladies can post their worst encounter with insensitivity so everyone can see that it's a universal problem and shouldn't be taken personally (even if we wish we could ram certain weapons down/up certain body-parts in rage)! Cas - I'm so happy you have a focus outside of BC and something to work towards. Also, the people who really count are the ones who show you the kindness and courtesy you deserve under the circumstances. Luckily you have had that courtesy extended to you by your university. Try to just focus on that - hard to do sometimes, I know (lol) Sending hugs, xxx Jeanine Ps: I hope there's no limit on hugs since I've been sending them out left, right and centre :))))
That would be great!
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I'd call you AK4F hahahahahaha... A five foot five and fiesty assualt weapon. I so wish I had been there :) I had some twit this morning, I was driving at the shopping centre doing about 15k and I just started on to a crossing as this large (read fat bogan) man and his equally large (read fat female bogan) wife and son stepped onto the crossing. Fortunately I had my windows up and the AC on. Well he abused me, danced around, gesticulated. I stopped, people turned around and looked. It was obvious that I'd got on to the crossing first because I was almost off it again and he was one step from the kerb. I just looked at him, thought about letting him have it, then thought no, wasted effort he won't understand, so I smiled, waved, and kept going. When I got into the shopping centre the three of them were standing in the doorway having a conversation, I walked past, smiled at her in sympathy and kept going. Thank GOD I don't have to go home to HIM every night. I feel sorry for the stupid receptionist's husband and children. So there :P
Keep writing Christine, put them in a diary, show someone in publishing so I can say I told you so. XXXChristine !!!!!!!!!!! hahahahahaha, OMG girl you make me laugh and I'm only halfway through your post, just at the stage of ramming a gunhandle sideways down the radiologists throat hehehehe...... PLEASE become a writer of some description. Your talents are bursting to get out.
Christine !!!!!!!!!!! hahahahahaha, OMG girl you make me laugh and I'm only halfway through your post, just at the stage of ramming a gunhandle sideways down the radiologists throat hehehehe...... PLEASE become a writer of some description. Your talents are bursting to get out.
Love ya work Jeanine ((((mwah!))) and squeezing you till you squeek! :) I'm feeling much better today. Griffith University and staff are just being so caring and telling me that nothing is going to stop me getting where I want to go. They've given me fairly unlimited extensions on everything (within reason of their time allowances) and told me that I have to do my honours year next year. I've been told this morning by a relative, a retired doctor of microbiology that the university is pushing me so that they can grab me as a tutor in 2015. OK, that makes me smile, I think I would like that. It is all conjecture at the moment but the idea sits well with me. I like intelligent people hence why I participate here and I don't mind helping people to learn either.
Yep, karma usually bites those whose attitudes can do with some adjustment when they least expect it and secondly I have a long memory. :PCas X
- Hi Cas You sound a little better now after reading everyone else's ridiculous stories :))) - the stupid insensitivity of staff, some nurses and some doctors seems to be contagious... We all just have to ride the wave. Who knows, maybe one day the awful woman who made me cry will, herself, be on the receiving end of the same treatment. You have to try to put it in perspective and focus on getting well. Sending more hugs, Xxx Jeanine
hahahahaha! I like your husband, you chose well. I burst out laughing at that post :) How hilarious! Good on you for having a go at that moron. (still giggling) :) Yes I found one of the radiologists to be awful, the doctor there had the personality of Doc Martin (none) and one of the receptionists needed a good (you put the word in). Snarly faced cow. Humph! Mind you, one of the receptionists there said "I know you". I looked at the ground and thought oh crap, what does she remember me for, I hope it isn't bad lol (guilty conscience). She lived around the corner from me when my son and her daughter were about 7 ish. I knew exactly who she was then. She studied the same degree as I am but she didn't finish (I will). That was nice to catch up with her (in about 3 minutes).
Yes there have been humourous bits, people have said some really ridiculous things to me and I've just giggled because I knew to expect them. Thanks so much for being here and making it a little easier to cope with the bad bits. Now, if I don't take this bra off, the senoma that feels like a bilge tank slopping back and forth is going to explode and it won't be pretty (yuk!)
CasHi Jeanine,
I agree, doctors who treat cancer patients SHOULD have cancer survivors for their admin staff. The women who I have found to be rude and unsympathic seem to be of an age and makeup of one particular type of person. A burnt out ex nurse. They have no empathy, no patience and no thought for the person in front of them. I will be on the phone on Monday and I will sort this situation out even if I have to be the instigator of rolling heads. I have never had a lot of patience for people who don't or won't use their brains and think before speaking.
I will definitely be coming back to help a few more along this path.Cas
- Hi Cas I've just read your post and I'm totally horrified that you have had to go through such trauma. It's totally unfair and unacceptable but, unfortunately, it's very common. I had the plastic surgeon's receptionist speaking to me like I was an idiot when I asked if the reason I hadn't received a receipt for my very expensive nipple recon surgery was because she had submitted it to Medicare for me. She spoke to me as if I was a two year old and had the temerity to tell me that of course I MUST have received her receipt because they DONT submit to medicare on their patients' behalf and then started to instruct me on how to go into Medicare and get my refund... She also asserted that I wouldn't actually get much back because it was plastic surgery (of course, not bothering to remember that I was a cancer patient so it is covered partly by Medicare and my Heath fund). I was, at this stage, in tears standing at the desk. She printed me another receipt and when I took it into Medicare and they processed it they told me that the surgeon had claimed my refund ($2000.00) and that they had had my money for three weeks already!!!!! I had already paid $4000.00 up-front to the surgeon two weeks before my surgery because those are his "rules". I was absolutely furious and completely crushed. The lady at Medicare called the surgeons office and, of course, they couldn't work out how THAT could have happened.... I had an apology but it left a very bad taste in my mouth. I was treated like an idiot and they must have thought I was one since they had stolen my refund. It's such a pity that its not a requirement for doctors who treat cancer to have admin staff who are cancer survivors themselves. It would make the whole process a lot easier to endure for the poor person going through the trauma of a diagnosis and consequent treatment. Please go and have your treatments so that you can live and long and healthy life and be able to give comfort to the next poor victim of this hateful disease. You are allowed to spit the dummy - who could blame you? Thinking of you and sending you soothing hugs, Xxx Jeanine
