zasrs replied to the topic Easter in the forum Off topic 13 years, 7 months ago
Hi Everyone
Have a wonderful sunny (hopefully) easter and may all your bunnies be chocolate:-D
with love sarah xx
zasrs replied to the topic So pleased to be back in the forum Carers 13 years, 7 months ago
Hi Min
What a pain about your holiday, know what you mean about the comfort zone.
I Will Look forward to the pensioners holiday to benidorm or as extras, anything will do! Benidorm has grown on me over the series looking forward to the next one.I loved crossroads never knew which part of the sets would wobble next, loved bennys hat:-D…[Read more]
zasrs replied to the topic Good Morning Gaye in the forum General 13 years, 7 months ago
HI gaye
cannot match the other posts!!
So:-D 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 to go with the sunshine
sarah xx
zasrs replied to the topic Devastated in the forum General 13 years, 7 months ago
Hi Gill
Have just read your news, I am so sorry, but Drs do not always get it right, the human spirit is very strong. Gordon had approx 5-6 years on revlamid and had a very good quality of life even with the dex until it failed and he was lucky to be able to have another SCT. I live in hope that there is always another with luck,a new drug or…[Read more]
zasrs started the topic GCSF. in the forum Side-effects 13 years, 7 months ago
Hi All
Hope you are all enjoying ttis wonderful weather, speaking as a farmers wife we could do with just a little shower of rain now and then!
Gordon is on GCSF every third day to stimulate the bone marrow, he is 3 month post 2nd sct, my question, is anyone else on GCSF at present? If so is anyone experencing the pain Gordon has as a side…[Read more]
zasrs replied to the topic 30 year engagement in the forum Off topic 13 years, 7 months ago
Hi Eve
Many congratulations on your forthcoming nuptials!! Yours must be the longest engagment on record:-D
Have a lovley day hope the daughters make it!!
Best wishes
sarah
zasrs replied to the topic Hi All update on mum and me in the forum Off topic 13 years, 7 months ago
Hi Fiona
Good luck in the marathon hope you raise lots of money, you deserve to, I can only run across the garden!!
Sarah
zasrs replied to the topic Finally Lost The Plot! in the forum Off topic 13 years, 7 months ago
Oh Bridget you have no idea how you help to lift me and make me giggle!! I only wish I could do the same for you!!
We have just finished lambing our flock of 230 ewes, I love working with my son, what a great time, exhasting though, wish i looked like Kate Humble on lambing live!!
Enjoy this wonderful weather I am!!
Sarah xx
zasrs replied to the topic Can I have a moan in the forum Carers 13 years, 7 months ago
Hi All
Keep moaning it does help! i have worked for many years in the NHS as a nurse and for the last 9 years a carer for my husband as well, who has had 2 sct. At times i am so ashamed of my profession and at others in awe! The red tape today is awful, sometimes for good but not often.Gordon has learnt to keep abreast of what is going on and…[Read more]
zasrs replied to the topic SUBTITLES ANYONE? in the forum Off topic 13 years, 8 months ago
Dear Gaye and bridget
I missed the last episode of the Killing i thought it a great production so annoyed i missed it, something to do with football, I love the swedish wallender as well Look forward to the episode in the autumn.
Gaye,I do hope you get some relief from your pain soon, with all the pain relief today something must work for…[Read more]
zasrs replied to the topic This might bring a smile in the forum Off topic 13 years, 8 months ago
thank you!!! wish i could remember jokes love them to bits but usless at delivery!!
sarah xx 😀
zasrs replied to the topic Horror of Horrors in the forum General 13 years, 8 months ago
Hee Hee:-D 😀
Thats the trouble with e mails and texting I press send then re read the text/ e mail and regret it:-(
sarah xx
zasrs replied to the topic Pain in side in the forum Carers 13 years, 8 months ago
Dear Jean
Men find illness so difficult to cope with being sick , gordon is on GCSF plus epo to boost his bone marrow, i have to remember all the dates times for the meds, gordon ignores it and gets then cross when i inject him, he has had a wake up call this weekend, as he has spent the last two nights in hospital with a chest infection and…[Read more]
zasrs replied to the topic New to discussion board – carer in the forum Newcomers 13 years, 8 months ago
Hi Gill
I don,t do breakfast in bed cause so much i do is wrong! It is so tricky being a 'carer' i guess it is what we sign up to with our marrige vows, many years ago now, i also feel the idiot who married the pain that got ill!!
with best wishes sarah
zasrs replied to the topic How did you come to terms with the diagnosis in the forum Carers 13 years, 8 months ago
Hi Amanda
I agree with Liz and Jo try Macmillian Service you can find them through your GP and or the local hospice. Myeloma uk are also brilliant, good luck your mum is lucky to have a caring family.
Best wishes Sarah
zasrs replied to the topic Bone Pain in the forum General 13 years, 8 months ago
Hi Gaye
so sorry to read that you are still suffering from such wearing bone pain, I hope that eventually the Rt will kick in as Min has said
Gordon takes tramadol 2 x daily 50mg mainly because he needs a new hip due to osteo arthritis not mm and he does not seem too spaced out!! he drives, works sort of, but tramadol does not suit…[Read more]
zasrs replied to the topic I Wouldn't Be This in the forum Off topic 13 years, 8 months ago
Thanks Dai, beautiful music and lyrics just what i need.
sarah
zasrs replied to the topic The squirrels are getting realy big nowadays in the forum Off topic 13 years, 8 months ago
my word David I hope they dont come to sussex, my poor dog would have a heart attack he hates squirrels!
Sarah
zasrs replied to the topic Keep your fingers crossed for me please. in the forum Carers 13 years, 8 months ago
Hi Min
I also watch a lot of late night telly, it is rubbish!! Except for the now and again good films, or the very old soaps, I ended up watching the soap set in the solent with lots of very beautiful yachts more interresting than the dialogue.
I still think i am on holiday!! not sure when that feeling will go, if ever.
I help my son and…[Read more]
zasrs replied to the topic Feeling Rough in the forum Treatment 13 years, 8 months ago
Hi All
Gordon had velcaide last year at Kings and because we live in sussex he had treatment once a week with a week off and seemed to sail through the treatment ( except for the dex grrr:-( ), he went into remission after the 3rd cycle, but had 6 al told prior to sct. maybe the americans have done more recerch and i x weekly is better for side…[Read more]