Is that right? Did you really say that?

@PatsyN You are a lot more tactful than me. I was being sarcastic when I said it made more sense to rub the pawpaw mixture on Miss Perky! The friend was being serious. I now dread going shopping or to the post office  as I know I will meet someone who will again offer a "tried and true" cure that's better than medical science. Small towns have upsides and downsides. 

Annie C said:

I have just remembered a classic "You should........" 
A "friend" (who I suspect has warped her brain with woopy weed) suggested that I should blend the stems and leaves of pawpaw and drink it 3 times a day! I told her it made more sense to rub the cocoction into Miss Perky. She floored me when she said that I should do that too!

Ummm - I had a friend who said the same thing and so as not to offend her I boiled up the leaves which had to be young leaves. There are paw paw trees growing out of peoples gutters round here so it wasn't hard to source the raw materials.
I then strained it into a glass bottle put the lid on and never touched it. It stunk while I was boiling it up and tasted extremely bitter. It lasts in the fridge for 1 week. I suppose it must have been about a month later when one of my daughter's friends opens the fridge to have a swig of what she thought was ice tea, which I often make and have in the fridge. She spat it out so far and wide it took an hour to clean up!

@onemargie Thank you on behalf of us all, Margie - for putting that dickhead in his place. He deserves the Dickhead mug.

oh dear, @onemargie  ..... how bloody insensitive was THAT dickhead??  Well done for giving it to him!!  For some women, that one comment could have sent them over the edge!  :(     Hopefully he thinks twice now before being so flippant again!

@"Kiwi Angel"
I saw that re the Sunday Telegraph - it seemed to relate to breast implants that were 'rough skinned' more than 'smooth skinned'.  I'll see if I can get a copy & scan it.

Yeah - who knows WHY we get the big C (it was never in MY family!  I'm the first!)  I seriously don't think they will ever really know with a lot of them.  Personally, I reckon it is in the horticultural sprays that have been put on all our food crops from way back from the 50s onwards - and possibly the genetic modification of foods as well?  Mind you - They pretty well blame everything these days for giving us cancer!   :(     I stopped using sunscreen about 10 years ago - and just cover up TOTALLY when out on my kayak - I really don't like rubbing chemicals all over my body - so not surprised they've found it in breast tissue!  :(  

@onemargie Or maybe this one..



Or this one!



And can I just say, that is a WOEFUL experience to have. Such hopeless insensitivity from an 'professional' in the cancer field. I'm so sorry that happened to you. K xox

Zoffiel said:

I'm going. What group?

This Field of Women must be gathering in Melbourne. Do you know of any gathering in Sydney or Brisbane?
(I went to the local BC Group for the first time last month and they asked me to lead the meditation...)

Wankers of the week indeed @onemargie We probably should start telling them we share all this. Hundreds of people now know you are a tool, mate.

Hi there @kmakm I’m buying that mug I bloody love it lol!! . I went for my yearly routine chest wall ultra sound this morning and I go in there and lie down the radiologist introduces himself then proceeds to say “so let’s take a look at this lump” I said WHAT FUCKING LUMP!! Does it say on the referal I have a lump FFS! The oncol said he didn’t feel anything when I saw him!!!

And he then apologised profusely and then said it doesn’t say that at all on the referal at all and he then said “I haven’t even had a look yet and shouldn’t of said that” and I said do you think!! He said you must think I’m a real prick and I said no not at all I just think you should always check the referal before you say shit like that. I then said he was lucky he said it to me who’s quite thick skinned and not someone who’s a bit more sensitive who might take offence more easily. Another one for the wanker of the week award lol. I’m going to buy him the mug above that @kmakm  suggested. Margie xxx

I have heard on the news that this week alone there is a new cancer related to breast implants (there was an article in the Sunday Telegraph in Sydney) and they are concerned as when they had tested breast tissue from mastectomy patients in another study that sunscreen had actually leeched into the tissue. 

U fortunately it seems like everything can give h cancer these days it just seems like a genetic roll of the dice. I know so many people who are in there 70’s and have a very unhealthy lifestyle but are chugging along quite happily but then it’s probably a vegan who slathers herself in paw paw that gets cancer. I have been a vegan for a few years and it certainly didn’t stop me getting cancer or make it go away. A lot of veggie curries would of been preferable to chemo. I think we just have to live our life the best and the healthiest we can and still have our little vices - otherwise what’s the point. 

Yes, sometimes I wish they’d documented his recovery and return to sport at such a high level.  He is 82 this year!!

Wow! Well done you two on your healthy lifestyle!! Yes, it sucks, living in a house where 100% have had cancer!  Neighbours across the road have 100% As well .... and 3 other neighbours with 1 partner diagnosed.  Not sure if that would be classed as a cluster?  And guaranteed not eating their own veg, probably drinking ‘too much booze’ and not exercising enough!!  I guess, with both having their partners ‘thru it’ previously, We would be a little more prepared for the overall gist of things, even tho my diagnosis was still a slap in the face!  Totally unexpected!

Yep .. Unless they’ve had cancer themselves, the boffins are just parroting what they’ve read or been told by others/patients either at university or once they are in a Dr’s practise.  They have no ‘actual’ experience of experiencing the disease, @Annie C .... so like you, I really value the info we get from our BC sisters (and brothers) here on the forum .... cos they’ve lived it and have no reason not to tell the truth - no matter how confrontational it may be.  Some are luckier than others with less complex procedures, but that initial fear upon hearing the diagnosis & initial biopsies and results are the same for Everyone, I reckon.  

The way I see it .... I HAD cancer, it was removed. Right now I am doing some ‘mopping up’ exercises ..... It is not unlike having a baby!   You are pregnant, you have the baby and are no longer pregnant!

i am a firm believer in being kept busy doing things you love (or work, if you must ... for those youngies!) once you are able to after surgery and the other procedures ... even whilst going they those procedures.   It works for me.  It worked for my hubby!  ;)  He was already exercising in bed, within days of coming out of theatre, which AMAZED the hospital staff!  At that point in time, he couldn’t even sit up by himself, but was doing what he could!

Take me care and stay well xx