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Kylie, i am the same, i cannot stand anything pressing on it, the dog put his paw on it the other day and ow it hurt, and under the arm is still tender where the cut is and gets really itchy. that was 2011 i had mine done. so it could be a continous tender area for us.
My sister also told me that upon arrival home of her son and family as they live in the Hokianga, most of you kiwi girls would know that area, Rawene, they live in Kohu Kohu and they look over the harbour, anyway the fuel line was almost severerd, was just enough to keep it flowing til they got home, they took up two hours longer as it was slow with him checking the fuel leakage and there was none.she said the only injury was to nardia who was driving and she got a real sore neck and shoulders, trying to keep car steady. gripping the wheel, trying to correct. lew drove it home after the accident.. they were so lucky.
jenn, how is your mother doing, anything happenng with the power of atourney thing, re neighbour.
Carol, how is your mum, have they some more tests and found anything?
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Hi all
Annette, Mum came out of hospital last Friday, I saw her yesterday and although she's better than before she's still not eating much. Her memory is still quite bad, she will need follow up to sort all that out. I don't think that Mum will ever be the same again as poor Dad virtually has to do everything, cooking, cleaning, shopping etc, as Mum just can't do any of this any more.
The weather here has got better, not as hot as the weekend, the bushfires have been terrible though.
Carol
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Carol, the bushfires are terrible and people missing too. I hope you Mum improves.....it is very sad to see your parents that way.
Annette, thanks for keeping us up to date with things!
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Annette, that was so lucky for your family for the accident not to be worse, and I would say lucky the policeman let them drive it home in that condition, it wouldn't happen here, it would. Be immediately have an unroadworthy sticker stuck on it. I can't believe that neighbor wants to be power of attorney Annette, either your mum has spun a story how she is worried about you handling her money (as dementia takes over)) or the neighbor is going to steal from her. I would do everything you can to stop it, that's your
mums money and your inheritance if it's not used, which it more than likely will be to pay for her care.
Thank you for all your kind words, I am off to the GP now as the pain in my spine/under ribs is just getting too painful for me. The onc gave me an increase in meds but doesn't touch the pain. I was disappointed to hear I would start abraxane again in 2 weeks,just before my cruise, but now I want to start as hopefully it helps with the pain. This has all come on so quickly as I think it was only 3 weeks between CT's when there was nothing. Not sure if I told you I have numerous blood clots in both lungs and have to inject myself twice daily and now have a huge heamatona under my skin thats very sore. Three months ago I started afinitor with bone mets stable and medinastinal Mets gone and now that stinking chemo has caused all this crap in my lungs and progression. The thing is, it seems to be happening to most of the women on the afinitor/aromasin and I seem to be the only one worried that this happening. Got to go to my appointment now. Xxx
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Big hugs Gail & I do hope the appointment goes well & you get some pain relief I xxxx
For those who don't have Facebook, I've just come home from hospital. I went in on Sunday, woke up very disorientated, not sure where I was etc.....after phone calls back & forth between onc, hospital & us it was decided I should go in. I had a Lumbar Puncture in my spine yesterday arvo....& boy did that hurt!!! For those of you that haven't had one, you are then not allowed to move your spine for 4 hours. Fortunately I fell asleep & slept around 12 hours. Home now, results later this arvo or in the morning.....hoping all well or I have to have the equivalent of a port in my brain......yikes!! But we won't think about that.
Sorry for not mentioning everyone but a bit caught up with what's happening......
I hope everyone is well & safe & the fires aren't threatening anyone.
Take care.
Karen xxxx
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Wow Karen! Sure hope your result are good enough that you don't have to have that port thingy in you brain........that's some scary shit! Glad you are home and resting.
Gail I hope you get that pain under control soon........it has a tendency to make you feel like crap when left to run rampant.
Just trying to stay cool.......did I ever tell you that I hate summer?........just thought I'd let you know........lol.
Take it easy all.
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Karen, good to read you are at home. I've been thinking of you.
Gail, I am so sorry to read about your pain. I hope they can get it under control ASAP.
Chrissy, I'm sending cool thoughts your way
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Gail, I hope the pain improves for you, and you get to enjoy your cruise.
Karen, pleased that you are home again, that must have been so scary for you.
Chrissy, I cant believe that I used to love summer, and that was in the tropics, was I ever crazy!
Tanya
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Gail, I hope you got some help from docs for your pain so you can enjoy your wonderful cruise.
Karen you don't seem to be getting a break at the moment. I will keep everything crossed for your results.
Chrissy I hate summer also. Thats why camping sucked it was so hot, yuck. I'm sure in this weather I get hot flushes on my hot flushes and I just feel so exhausted in the heat.
I hope those of you near the fires are safe x
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Gail I hope you get some relief soon ((((hugs)))
Karen, that would have been scary for you. I hope it's settled down for you, the idea of a port in your head is not nice. Keeping everything crossed for you ((((hugs)))
This heatwave is going on forever. I must admit though, for the first time it isn't worrying us too much - our house has airconditioning, first time we've had that and oh! what a difference it makes lol.
Stay cool everyone
Trish
xoxox
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Thank you girls,you are always so supportive. Karen,thanks for the update, I didn't see it on Facebook,don't know why? The port would be under the skin and would save you any unnecessary pain with canulas, so I wouldn't worry about it. Plus your hair would hide it. Its just the thought of all this hideous sounding shit that scares us. Wish you the best result possible. Xxxx
I had appt with GP yesterday,glad she's not my usual that's on holiday,as she was so stern, not like my lovely GP that is so caring. Anyhow she gave me an increase in oxycontinen, so now on double the dosage I was on. Just hope it works. She took a urine sample because she seemed surprised that I thought it was the pain of standing up from bed in the morning that made me start to leak, as it never happens during the day when getting up from my chair. I have a large hematoma under my skin that is so hard and been very sore from me injecting myself and she said it will go, just takes time and perhaps massaging the lump would help. Oh my god, writing about all these damn ailments,and I have never had anything till cancer, not even childhood illnesses! I used to say when I was in my 30's how lucky I was and would probably get cancer or something nasty when I was older! Smack! That's the sound of me hitting myself.
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Gail my eldest DD had a huge hematoma on her mid section from having to inject herself twice a day for many years due to clots and the doc is right they do resolve on their own but a little help with draining goes along way to easing the pain of them. When your own GP returns ask about having it drained to ease the discomfort. Hope the added oxy help with your pain.
Karen, thinking of you and hoping results are not as bad as you are thinking.
Trish, I hear you on the heat! Ugh!!!!!! Oh yeah, thank goodness for aircon, mine is running nonstop and my bill is going to be huge but shit, at my age and health status being cool is important.
Hope the rest of you girls are keeping cool and comfortable as well.
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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gail, itis jenns mum that has the power of atourney problem, and yes i am surprised the cop let them go with the car in that condition.
Hubby had his op, he home today. went well, will fill you in later.
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Thats wonderful about hubby Annette. X
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Annette pleased to hear that your hubby has had his op and is home resting quietly. I bet he's pleased that it's all done.
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Its good he is home Annette and all went well.
Having a bad lightning and wind storm at the moment. Not sure if I will sleep much, worried about fires from the lightning as its so dry, and with this wind there will be no stopping it. Its a bit cooler though, shame there is no rain with it.
Hope everyone is coping with the heat ok.
Tanya
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Gail ((((hugs))) I heard that slap from here lol. I remember blithely telling numerous hairdressers who commented on how thick my hair was that going bald was one thing I'd never have to worry about! Now my hair has lost that thickness, which I suppose isn't too bad and after chemo it's a lot softer than it was.
Annette - good news about your DH, hope he has some relief now.
Tanya - you said you were in rural NSW, but in the mountains? Where are you? I'm curious
Wondering if it's the Blue Mountains - I was born in Lithgow and still have a brother living there.Another hot one here today - yesterday got to 40 which is pretty hot for Canberra, and we are expecting that again today and possibly tomorrow.
Stay cool everyone.
Trishxoxo
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Hi Trish, I'm in the Snowy Mtns. My MIL and SIL's live in Canberra so we spend a lot of time there. The weather in Canberra over Christmas was just lovely. Take care in the heat.
hugs
Tanya
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hubby ended up with a spinal block anesthetic as apparently in his family there is an enzyme that reacts to a drug called scoline( dont mind the spelling) and it apparently is a muscle relaxant, and when BIL had a general once as a child, he took 12 hours to come around and there were panic stations, he was in intensive care, he has a cleft pallet and they were working on that and it took litrerly hours for him to come around so they decided to a spinal block on hubby and he had to have a catheta and then then they wanted to wait til he pead properly on his own and then measure it and do bladder scans, we got home at 6ish, so i was all day there. only ment to be a one day thing. he was very restless last night and little agaitated. so we did not get much sleep. they said he ' have to have a catheta for a week if he had not pead on his own, which would of been a pain for him esp with animals, like little dogs.. anyway.
the hospital rang me this morning wanting to know if i wanted to have my operation on a surgical bus over in Dannvirke, the 6th of march, but its three hours there, but then they discovered i would be having mine before that anyway and hubby said, no, i have far too many complcations now and wants me done at the hospital where proper services are if things went wrong and i have diabetes. maybe well set up.and he wants my doc doing it, it would not be him. i dont know when it is, in feb sometime.
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Tanya - we'll have to have a coffee next time you are in Canberra! We've just moved back into Canberra after living on the southern edge of Michelago (OK it was actually Colinton, but Michelago sounds better lol) - you know the gate that's the entrance to Paintball? We were one of the three houses you see as you come down the hill just before Ingelara.
Let me know when you are up here next and we'll meet. The Snowys are a beautiful place to live, we used to go to Thredbo every Boxing day and hike to the top of the mountain. Can't do that anymore lol - but wish I still could.
Annette - hope your DH is feeling better today.
Trishxoxo
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Annette sorry to hear that you both had a very restless night but good to hear that your hubby is doing okay.
Trish I'm thinking of doing a trip over to Canberra at the end of Feb for my brothers birthday and staying for a week. I'll let you know the details when I'm organized and we can catch up for lunch or a coffee while I'm there.
Oh yeah....it's hot here today....again!!!!! The powers that be have started load shedding with the power as they can't keep up with demand........luckily we haven't yet been affected so my air con is still running. It's a comfortable 24 in most of my house, particularly the lounge and bedroom so we can sleep properly. The door of hell is definitely open and I just wish someone would shut the bloody door!!!! Enough is enough already!.......lol.
Stay cool all!
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Hi girls very hot here in Bendigo this week 41,45,44,44,44 all week. We are all doing out best to keep cool our air cond has been running day and night but it is struggling to get below 26 degrees oh well we will survive but I feel sorry for those without airconditioning . Try and keep cool ladies thinking of you all. We are off to Gold Coast tomorrow for my nieces wedding. Judy
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Chrissy, yay I get to see you again so soon! If you are here for a week then I would hope for coffee one day and lunch another lol. That will be great, I assume you will be staying with your brother? There's always a bed here if you need it. We have a wedding on the 28th but not too much else so far.
It got to 41 there today and now they are saying tomorrow will be 40 too. Too bloody hot. Thursday is only supposed to be 22 - roll on Thursday!
Delvzy, you've had it hotter, enjoy the Gold Coast!
Trish
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My god Delvzy, and we think its hot here on the Gold Coast! And Bendigo is normally the coldest place ever lol! I I on the Gold Coast and you will probably find it pleasant after what you have endured. I am sitting in the lounge currently with the door open and just a fan on and its very pleasant. Chrissy, I. Wish someone had offered to drain my lump,I didn't realize they could!. Love Gail
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Would love to have coffee Trish. We did a caravan trip from Adelaide to Canberra and back via The Snowy's in between chemo and rads (first time round). We had a beautiful day and decided to walk to the top of Kosciuscko (7310 ft). I was so proud of myself, DH and I were high fiving ect. Then I turned around to see a woman about 90 power walking (as in arm pumping, fast stepping) right up behind me LOL. She got a well deserved standing ovation.
Wow Delvzy Bendigo was HOT! The Gold Coast will be downright cool in comparison. Chrissy how is your garden going, I'm struggling to keep some young trees alive, and its so disheartening to see nothing but brown grass and wilting plants.
Tanya
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Trish I'm pretty sure I can manage that, coffee and a lunch.......woohoo!....lol. I will more than likely have my SIL with me but she's great fun so you'll like her too.
Gail ask your doc next time you see him about having it drained.......I know there is a risk of infection as with anything like this but it can be done.
Judy your temps are close to mine! Not easy to get through when it's day after day.
Tanya, my garden is brown as it is every summer. My roses thrive and the trees also then the rest of the garden is planted with things like geraniums and lavender that doesn't need much water as well as natives that are drought tolerant. I love it after the first rains of Autumn as everything turns green at a great rate of knots. There are loads of bulbs that show their heads in Spring so the garden is pretty easy care. I'm lucky as my DH will water it every couple of days in weather like this otherwise it gets water once a week.......but not the lawns, just the beds.
Hoping this weather breaks soon!
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Had to laugh, googled "canberra weather" and it came up with 38oC and light snow. Some wishful thinking perhaps.
Chrissy, we dont water the lawn either, the only bits that are green is where it gets some overspray from the garden beds. I dug up about 20kgs of mixed bulbs from a garden under some evergreen trees. It was too shady for them to flower, so I'm moving them to another garden. It will be a surprise when they flower as I have no idea what any of them are.
Tanya
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lol i love it. snowing in 38 deg heat you poor things over there, all the heat, you can have the ausy weather, esp that heat, i dont know how you manage it.. anyway hope you girls are ok. take care love Annette
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Tanya maybe do they were hoping for a little snow to alleviate the heat.....hahahaha!......yeah, I'm with them in their thinking.......would love a little snow to cool things down, not gonna happen but it would be nice.
Annette, how's hubby doing today? Resting I hope and giving his body time to heal........oh and how are you holding up?
I keep seeing the shrubs outside my lounge window move and I keep hoping the wind has turned around and bringing in this cool change........after opening the door a crack, my hopes are dashed when I realise that the air coming in is still as hell! Oh well, back to the tennis and my air conditioning.
Stay cool all and hopefully the cool change that is forecast will be a good one for all.
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Hi Gals. Well I have to apologise. I know I have 'been a stranger' on these boards. I have been in a real slump lately, I guess in my own little bubble. I haven't had much energy to stay in touch with anyone, here, or in the real world. I haven't been depressed as such, but just really no energy. I was very sick over Christmas, I got bronchial pnumonia and shingles at the same time. To say I thought I was going to die would be an understatement. I have always been so healthy. This really really was a huge shock for me to be so sick that I couldn't get out of bed. I am so much better now, still not even close to 80% but so so much better.
I had my review with my Oncologist last week, and so far things are stable with no sign of any progression. The radiation greatly helped relieve the pain in my back, so at the moment I am pretty much pain free, although I have niggles when I lie down, but oh well.... it could be worse.
Karen. I have seen on FB that you are again in hospital. You are in my nightly prayers. Trisha, thanks for your calls to me. What a wonderful wonderful person you are. I just feel worse and worse that I am in a bubble. I know I am not here and that I am out of the loop, but I am trying to cope with my new life as best as I can.
I love you all.
Kate x
PS . Sarah is graduating on Sunday as an RN. I will post pics on FB after the event. I am so proud.
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