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Best of luck wizzer...hopes and prayers are with you all the way

Maree

Hoping you have an uneventful surgery and a speedy recovery.

Thoughts and prayers are with you,

My prayers are with you Wizzer. Get well soon. Dee

I am so glad you posted again.   Everyone at healing well is thinking of you and I hope the surgery goes well.  Get in touch when you can, we are looking forward to hearing from you.   Take care and big big ((hugs)) to you.  You are in my thoughts hun xx

Whooo hoooooo! Congrats and good vibes, and prayers and all that sort of stuff! I just love to hear a success story. :-D

Hi Victoria,

This is my third big one, with a minor one in between. They don't seem to keep you in for very long at all these days - I am not sure if that is just the NHS in general or if it is because of the type of surgery I have had.  They are eager to get you up and walking, as soon as you can do that without being too dizzy, you get to go home.  I prefer to go home quickly though, for one beacause I unfortunately smoke but mainly because I just don't feel that I can 'heal' lying in a hospital bed.  I just like to shut down for a bit to let my body get to work on healing what it needs to and I like to do that in my own environment, mind over matter.  Make sense?  Still I get district nurse visits three times a day for four more days and then I have to go back for a check up.

My mom had breast cancer last year and she had surgery to remove the lump and they only kept her in for 24 hours, I was really shocked at that because she was 64 at the time and also has MS, so she didn't look great or feel great, and I felt that the anaestethic hit her hard, but they still sent her home.  I think you take longer to heal as you get older.  I think she went back pretty sharpish for the start of the chemo though.

I met someone the other day that said that hypnosis can get rid of all habits and illnesses - even cancer.  I found it a little upsetting to think that someone would promote curing something as threatening as cancer in this way - has anyone ever heard of such a thing? Or tried it?  I thouht i might try it for the smoking, but now I am not so sure with these 'cancer' claims.

Well, I feel quite cheery today, must be the meds, hope it lasts and that you are all doing well.

take care

wizzer x

Welcome home Wizzer! I was wondering how you were doing.
So glad things went well and that you hopefully won't have to go thru it again.

Hi Victoria,

I am doing ok, thanks for asking.  I am working from home and have even been into the office a couple of times, but I think if I am honest, I have pushed it a little too much, I will never learn!

I am surprisingly upbeat too, I don't know if this is the result of all the meds being mixed, but I won't complain.  I had my last visit from the nurse tonight and she says all looks good, no infections etc.  Can't wait to wash my hair though and I seem to be desperate to lay in be on my left side - which I can't do - way too painful!  We always want what we can't have I suppose.

I am really hoping that this is the last time, but I won't get to find that out for quite a while yet.

How are you doing?

Let me know and thanks for being there.

Hugs

Wizzer

Hi Victoria, I'm on Fluoxetine.  I have never taken and ad's before, so this is my first experience.  They seemed to take an absolute age to kick in, my doc upped my dose a couple of times since October when I started, but I really don't want to take these 'forever', so have been reducing my dose since mid January.  I am trying to just take each day as it comes.  I have had 2 really bad meltdowns since mid december, but seem to be getting through things.  Being on meds makes me feel like a failure, like I am not strong enough to deal with things myself, that on its own seems to be able to start me on a downer, you just can't win!  I have slept nearly all day today, I put my PC on this morning and the next thing I knew it was 6pm.  I guess I have been overdoing it a little since the op.  I just seem to need to be constantly busy.  If I am busy, I don't have time to let the depression kick in.  Does that make sense?  I sometimes wonder if I am just hiding behind a facade.  I am trying my best to confront my issues, but sometimes it's just too hard.  Today I feel like I have been living like an imposter, bright and cheery beacuse that's what people expect.

Oh well, there is always tomorrow to feel better, life isn't perfect is it.

I think I am expecting that depression won't stay with me forever now that I have admitted it to myself.  Can this be true do you think?  I work on it every day, but the things that I have dealt with are still there, I think I thought that they would go away I suppose.  Which makes me question how on earth we are supposed to get better.

Oh dear, today I don't know what I am thinking, really sorry.

Hope you are well

Wizzer