Ohhhh Sailor ... I am with you!! Just a minor problem with being in another state but perhaps another time and date. Way to go!! Julie ... View more

Gooooooooooooo the eagles 😄 ... View more

Hiya Rodney Good news on the throat! I get the scarring and swelling thing too, which is pretty normal for that sort of treatment. Radio is one that keeps giving for quite some time and I still experience changes in my mouth and I am approx 10 months post treatment. You have a great w/e also ... tis a long one here. :D Julie ... View more

Hiya Jac The new normal is one of the hardships of making it through cancer. Our bodies are no longer (mostly) as they were and of course that in turn affects emotionally, mentally, socially and often financially. Something as big as cancer impacts on us in sooooo many ways and the other side of that is we no longer find the 'small' things interesting or can be bothered with them. In some ways I have found the thought and also part of the process of starting a new normal exciting and in other ways it is frightening. I am out of what was once my comfort zone and struggling to create a new zone to live in. It is a slow process for me and one that I try and focus on moving forward with. All the best with your creation of your new normal. Julie ... View more

Heya Rodney Good for you re nana napping 😄 I havent done much of that, but thats just me and the way i am trying to deal. I used to take my little laptop with me to clinic appointments, plus at one stage i had to drag around a nebuliser machine too. Would power up the neb and laptop and surf the net. That worked for me because i found reading difficult re concentration abilities and half the time i was soooooooooo tired i couldnt absorb anything. I am not having my needle thingy for a while ... there was a problem with one of the machines and the clinic were expanding so they are behind on appointments. Is ok because the problem isnt going anywhere and has even improved slightly with not using it as much. All the best for your appointment and hope you get the news you want! Julie ... View more

Hi Rodney Wow sounds like the radiotherapy really got to you. Hope you are feeling a bit better now. I suffered from open and weeping skin after I finished ... mine lasted over a 2 month period and I had the drug cetuximab which makes the skin more sensitive to radiotherapy. My skin is fine now although still quite dry and I have to make sure i regularly moisturize. I bet you were devastated re the new lump, lets hope it is from the treatment. I have some swelling on one side that they think is due to treatment. Soon I have to have a needle under ultrasound in my shoulder as I have managed to tear the rotor cuff tendon somehow and I suspect that all the chemo and radio I had have impacted on that. My muscles and joints are always very sore these days. Feel like I am very old sometimes. Maybe I am ... haha Julie ... View more

Hi Rodney ... Hopefully you will get your results sooner rather than later. The waiting part is the worse I always think. Were you sore after radiotherapy? I have been treated with a base of the tongue cancer with two lymph nodes involved. I finished treatment last year in November and am slowly recovering, although fatigue is a tough one for me to get over at the moment. Julie ... View more

Hi DaphneRose Thank you for your kind words :). I think you are right in regard to memories ... nothing can ever take those away. My friend was one of those very special people who was able to give so much, such a beautiful person. Julie ... View more

Hi Sailor THank you and I am sorry to hear of the passing of your friend. I am glad your friend received a good send off and one fitting to the life he lived. I am sure that my friend will have a fitting funeral as she was an amazing person. When we share experiences such as 'being diagnosed with cancer' we already have a knowing of one another. Then if you happen to like the other person and get along well it can be an incredible basis for a friendship. Time doesn't always measure friendships all that well. I was blessed to have my friend in my life even for a short time and we had times of much laughter, especially when we stayed at the cancer council place in Perth. My friend was like me and willing to give most things a go ... even relaxation classes and we had a giggle afterwards about something the instructor phrased to us all. The funeral is next week so I am sure that will be challenging. Thank you Julie ... View more

THanks Sylvie ... she was such a beautiful lady. 🙂 ... View more