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Don't know how to start but here goes...
by NinaBaker
Just diagnosed with breast cancer and want to outpour somehow
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Update
It’s been a while since I last put finger to keyboard, and a few people have asked how it’s going – well the answer generally is ...
Some excellent news!
I had my first mammogram since my diagnosis last Friday and have just got the result – no sinister lumps anywhere!!! Really pleased 'cos my b...
I had a shower today ...
Now that may not sound exciting, but if you’ve ever been ‘deprived’ of being able to use smelly stuff in the shower and condemned...
Ping no more
That’s it! No more microwaving! No more anything in fact! My treatment (apart from taking hormones for 5 years) is over!! Hooray! Af...
Bag of Wind?
OK no doubt various of you have called me an old wind bag… well the truth is I’m actually proud owner of a bag of fluid in my boob!! I...
Ooops!
I’m about to be sued for wrongful dismissal! The resident cream applier was most relieved to learn today from the radiographers that ‘w...
Wanted!
Someone who can rub cream into my irradiated boob twice a day! The current incumbent is proving what I said right at the outset of this ‘adve...
Fairy Tales
Cinderella made it to the Ball!! Or for those who still can’t cope with my ‘abbreviated’ version of events, I managed to get to...
To fit between Latest News and Some
Well after all the delights of regrown gall bladders and mysterious stool samples, I’m home! A visit from the surgical registrar &n...
Some good some so not so good news
I thought I had best bring you up to date with what has gone on since Nina last wrote. Things went according to plan (at least for a while) l...
Latest news from Planet Nina...
Well - Nina is in hospital again, but this time the chemotherapy is not to blame.... Things were looking up a tad earlier this week, an...
Update
Very remiss I know but I escaped ARI again (30 days I’ve spent there this year!) a week ago and haven’t been in touch. Although getting...
More Planet Nina (on 25.9)
Just a quicky this time – the consultants decided in the end that antibiotics were not the complete solution, so Nina went down for an endosc...
I'm a Gullible Donkey
A quickie – which will please most I think. Having been promised last Monday when I went for blood tests that they’d give me s...
Confession Time
Sorry, it’s happened. The brave, bolshy, ‘I can deal with this’ persona has seriously succumbed twice now in the last couple of...
Shortest entry yet!!
A few may be familiar with the line from one of the Latin satires of Juvenal, proclaiming the delights of a fit mind in a fit body…....
She's Back
OK – I’m home. Probably should have said so before now – it’s been 48 hours – but frankly I feel dead – which i...
Hopeful Homecoming
Just a quick update from me tonight. They took Nina off the intravenous anti-biotics yesterday and went on to tablets. Today they too...
It never rains but it pours 2
What we thought was going to be a short stay in the Infirmary has developed into something a tad longer – Nina is still getting saline and in...
It never rains but pours 1
After a really great weekend down at Kames and the elation of watching the local drivers retain the MSA trophy and also the British Championship ...