How many of us are young women???

Hi Hugs,

Thank you for the info. I would welcome the chance to meet some women my age group. If I can get off work I would love to be there. I finished my main treatments last year and am back at work on part time basis but have further reconstruction surgery to come later in the year.

Cheers
A

Thanks for answering avalanche! Im really looking forward to it!
How are you doing now? It must be great to be getting back to some normality!

Hi Hugs,

I'm doing ok thanks. It is good to be back at work and have some sort of routine. On the other hand it is difficult as i am still recovering from the after effects of chemo & radiotherapy. It will be lovely to meet you & others & share our experiences.

Look forward to meeting you!

A

Hi Hugs

That's a great idea! I would love to meet up I am in that age group (41) but I can't make it that day.Such a pity!I really would have loved to. Hope they do get a few people there...nothing like meeting and talking to women just like ourselves.

Hi All,

It's lovely to see so many of you online with good humour and words of wisdom getting through the dreaded cancer journey. I wish I had known about this forum when I was having treatment. Nothing beats advice from people who are experiencing the same treatment. I don't post messages to you all as I'm a bit jaded with work now but getting back to some sort of normality after treatments. I look forward to catching up on April 12th with those of you able to attend the ARC. I wish you all well going through the treatments and hope you maintain the ability to keep laughing through it all!

A

Hi Hugs
Hope to be there in person if not will be in spirit with ye all. Think it's a great idea and thanks for letting us all know about it.
Evelyn x x

Just reminding you all about the meeting on monday at 10.15
Im really looking forward to it.

Bumping this up again for tomorrow

Hi Hugs

I'm really dissappointed I can't make the meeting Hope it's good for everyone who makes it, let us know how it goes and I would love to maybe make the next one?? Take care.

Hi All,

The meeting was great! The Arc is a lovely place and the breast nurse counsellor is fab. It was wonderful to meet women doing so well inspite of everything thrown at them. So interesting to share our stories and experiences and have some laughs.

I look forward to the next one. I didn't want to leave. Could have stayed in that comfortable sitting room chatting and drinking tea all day

Thanks a lot Hugs for posting the info on here and was lovely to meet you in person.

A

Summerbreeze the next one is on the 10th of may. They are going to have them on the second monday of every month! Hopefully you can make the next one.

It was great to meet you aswell avalanche, its nice to put a face to the name! Also michel, it was great to meet you too.

It was so relaxing and inviting. I had a few teary moments later which confused me, but i think it was just me letting it out. I have been bottling it in I think.

Im going to look into some of the regular relaxation classes on in the mornings. They are just 'walk in', so you can go whenever its on and dont need an appointment.

Hi Hugs,

You are entitled to a few tears now & then. Can't be permanently chirpy. The relaxation classes sound just the trick and great to have the Arc close to the hospital. Hope none of us scared you talking about treatments you have not had yet. Always sounds worse talking about it after. It goes by in a blur. You will be fine once you get a treatment plan and able to focus on that. The waiting game is the hardest part.

Hi to anyone else I met today who posts on here, not sure who else I met that chats on here

A

It was great hearing about the treatments. Im really not afraid of them now. It was great meeting people who were finished or close to finishing treatment. Hey you all looked normal...no extra fingers or ears

I cant wait to get the chemo started, not that I think its going to be fun....lol, just that Ill know im on the road to recovery

I must say that the hair today was lovely, you couldnt tell the wigs from the real stuff!!!!!

Ya once you start chemo you will find it interesting trying to suss whose hair is real. Amazing wigs!

The good thing about chemo is you are tied to a comfy chair for hours, don't feel ill when you are receiving it and have no choice but to relax/read/chat/listen to music. With your busy household you might enjoy the peace

In a strange way I enjoyed my chemo sessions and found relaxing and the steroids you are given for a few days give you a real boost making you feel invincible

Right must make my way to bed now & turn off this computer.

Sleep well
A

Hey Girls, it was great to meet you ! looking forward to hooking up again in June (will miss next one unfortunately but its hols so won't be that bad :@) ). Delighted Audrey gave us the heads up. Good on ye. Audrey, at the next one I will bring in some scarves/hats I have you might like to have as I hopefully will have enough hair to go without at that stage. If you fancy going blonde you can have my wig too !! Will be thinking of you tomorrow I really hope its good news for you.

Hi Michl,

It was nice to meet you. Shame you can't make next time. Hopefully see you following one. I think you were having some tests and some decisions to make depending on results. Be happy to chat about next time if can help. Don't want to go into detail here so as to protect you privacy

A

lol Avalanche......but youre dead right

Thanks for the offer of the scarves etc if youre finished with them by the time I need them Such an odd thing to be passing on

I definately love the idea of going blonde for a while I can go out and pretend im someone else