Craftyone, this seems like such a plague for your family. My heart goes out to you. I will be ensuring that my kids are monitired from a vey early age even though it appears that my tumour was not genetically linked. Take care, S ... View more

Go the Christmas tree! I am a Chrisoholic but the last 3 years have been really hard to get motivated. I normally cook like a demon (gifts mainly) and do the tree and decorate the house etc. I have mainatained all this but I have lost the gloss. Maybe because there is very little enthusiasm from teenage sons! My son's girlfriend is going to assist this year and I will hunt out my daggy Christmas CDs and this may help. Vicki, everything changes and you are allowed to be grumpy and P***** off at the world. That is all OK here.Posistivity is great but the reality is that sometime that is just too hard to maintain. Let us know how the wheelcahir excursion goes. I hope you decorate it!!! Julie, I warned you about those animals. Don't let them near the washing! S ... View more

Hi Judith, At the end of my 6 months of chemo I could hardly stabd up for longer than 10 minutes. I remember finishing the groceries one day and looked across the car park to the fruit shop and just couldn't do it. When I got home I put the cold stuff away, sat down for 2-3 hours and then did the rest. Unfortunately it seems to be perfectly normal and my onc explained how the chemo has a cumulative effect and that the last few rounds were the worst. He was right. I didn't have to face radiation and so I did slowly rcover the energy. A friend who has been in similar circumstamces to yours with breast cancer, felt that the radiation was "a walk in the park" compared to chemo. But as we know, everyone is different. Keep up the nanna naps and don't worry about the housework. Take care, Samex ... View more

Julie, I warned you about the animals!! I hope you don't have a vege patch. The now relocated possum in our yard, spead itself on the netting on our vege patch and silently devoured to broccoli. Didn't like spinach. Harker, you have every right to be cranky. The constant juggling of appointments can be exhausting. i am fortunate that my appointments are now fairly spread out but with working and my kids' specialist appointments, life becomes frenetic at times. Stop the world, I want to get off has been my mantra for the past 2 weeks. Hope things are improving, S ... View more

Scary, Sailor, that we are on the same wave length! that was how I spent Saturday night as well, but I did have to wait up until midnight to pick up the 16 year old. There was a loud 18th 2 streets anyway, so dosing in the back room after Spooks was the name of the game! Glad that this wek was quieter. S ... View more

Sailor, I hope that this Saturday you can quietly watch New Tricks and Spooks on the ABC with a wee dram. S ... View more

This reminded me of many,many years ago when my husband was just out of his apprenticeship at QANTAS and got into the model aeroplane flying bug. The built one at work(back in the days of foreign orders) of aircraft strength satinless steel and aluminium. The problem was that when it flew, it flew backwards and started chasing them around the oval where they were flying until it came crashing to earth. I thought it was hilarious. A similar fate awaited the balsa wood models as well, and it was back to the dining room table. In those days, they were much better at keeping real aircraft in the air than models. Thanks for reminding me. S ... View more

Hi Olivia, Glad you are feeling better. I am a Dr.Google culprit as well and it really doesn't do us any good to look at stats. Tyr not to take 2 months to see your GP for the mental health assessment!! Take care, Samex ... View more

Hi Vicki Anne, The 5FU for 13 weeks constantly - you are a champ!! I struggled with it for 3 days every 2 weeks. At least I got a break from the constant beeping and tangling up.(Getting a bra on was always the hardest thing to accomplish successfully). If you can stand it, try to have someone gently rub your feet and if it isn't too hot, some soft cotton socks always helped me. Even last night my feet were irriating me (I'd had a huge day at school on my feet) and I resorted to socks at 2.00am.Also try , if you can, laying on your back on the floor with your feet and legs up a wall. A yoga standby and it helped me a bit too. Glad the scans are positive. Hang in there and take care of yourself, S ... View more