Good luck with the treatment - sounds similar to my mums - just had a fab 2 weeks with them!

Go kick that disease in the nads! Xx

Nice to hear your so upbeat and doing so well and as 4bells said give that disease a good kicking

Good luck on your chemo. It sounds as though it's adjuvant therapy that you're getting, I was there many years ago and did not lose my hair so I will keep my fingers crossed for you.

Your attitude is amazing, I'm sure you will recover well

P.

Thanks guys!

It's a given, with the drugs I will be on, that I will lose my hair. To be honest, I think I will cope with that. I know about the cold cap, although it hasn't been mentioned here, and I can understand why.......

At our centre they treat well over a hundred patients each day! The cold cap takes time to apply, and prolongs the treatment time. It is also really uncomfortable for the first five or ten minutes, until your scalp freezes, and then you are numb, until it starts to wear off, when it can be painful again. It is not guaranteed to work, but in many people the result is thinning, often patchy, and some people lose thir hair anyway, it just happens later.

All in all it sounds like a medieval torture to me, and I am not THAT fond of my hair, and would sooner get the hair loss over at the time of MY choosing. It will all grow back anyway (probably!)

At least I shan't be having any bad hair days for a while!

That's good news, Rose. So glad the surgery appears to have been successful - and as others have noted, your positive attitude is amazing in the face of such circumstances.

I'm sure you have been given a ton of advice and recommendations for reading matter in your enforced "leisure" time! If I may add one more piece to that pile, there's a quite wonderful blog at www.alrighttit.blogspot.com written by a friend-of-a-friend who was diagnosed with breast cancer a few months short of her 30th birthday in 2008. She has dealt with a whole load of ups and downs with a consistently sharp wit and plenty of black humour, but pulls no punches in describing the shitty parts of post-diagnosis life.

Thanks Oakvillian,

I had discovered her blog before, and just had another look at it again, but to be honest, it's not what I want to read right now. At my stage (at least, I haven't read through all 4 years of it) she is so angry and so bloody sorry for herself, and I have communicated with quite a few fellow patients, and know for a fact it is not that bad for everybody.

Also, hers has recurred, and is now incurable, and that of course is my biggest worry, but I don't want to dwell on that either right now.

So, thanks but no thanks. I will take her advice for people who don't want to read her sh*t, and"f**k off!" as she so nicely puts it.

Sorry about the above - stroppy cow moment!
I'd delete, but seems too late now. :/

You're more than entitled to have a stroppy cow moment, and if you want to nave them at us lot then that's certainly fine by me my friend roars at her cancer, she has an amazingly positive attitude just like yourself, of course you going to have moments where everything just sucks, I am sure we all understand, you can let loose here you''re among friends xxx

don't you dare! Your comment was way more sensible than my suggestion - and your perspective is, obviously, much more relevant than mine! I hadn't read Lisa's blog for a while - perhaps in retrospect I should have got up to speed with her situation before recommending it. Sorry.

And even if you were being a stroppy cow (which I don't really think you were) as PP says, nobody's more entitled to a bit of a strop right now than you.... so strop away if the mood takes you!

It didn't sound at all stroppy, on the contrary, it sounded like you are not prepared to feel sorry for yourself, very positive and incredibly strong. I would love to possess just a small percentage of your strength and spirit .

Thanks! I was actually feeling pretty sorry for myself yesterday, but I want to tell you all, I had such a good day today!

I've handed in my sick note, and they are advertising for a temp to cover me, and my manager spoke to HR, and a very nice man emailed me all the forms I need for short term disability pay. (I hadn't been able to get through to anybody to talk to about that)

I walked up to the 9th floor of the hospital to get my ecg, then had to tell them to wait a bit til my heart recovered!! Then I visited with all my old friends in the hospital before going to have my hair cut really really short. (Which cost me ten bucks and a hug!)

I've booked a consult with the wig place, and secured a best buddy (or maybe two) to come with me to celebrate losing my hair and help me choose a brand new "do", which I may or may not be sporting when I sing with my group at Red Deer Lake January 19th as part of the "On the Edge" Concert Series.

Chemo-schemo! Bring it!!!

Red head? Long blonde tresses? Brunette bob? Bleach blonde punky crop. God, the choices are endless!

Maybe I should have several .... Depending on how I feel at any given moment!

Edit: Given how my mood swings at present, I'll probably need at least half a dozen!