Breast Awareness Cards

I am about to leave to go up to the hospital to have a bit of seroma drained from under my arm, Dracula is obviously a bit kinky on the 31st!

I have over the past week made a few! cards to take up to the Breast Care unit to sell onto increase their funds a bit and also for patients/friends of patients to buy just to say.... I'm thinking of you...

I'm being a bit cheeky and entering the cards into two blog candy blogs too....

Suzanne over at http://slumbercards.blogspot.com/

and

Zoe over at http://bunny-zoes.blogspot.com/
who both have beautiful and generous candy on their blogs in support of Breast Awareness. Thank you both for making your blog anniversary's a celebration of Awareness.

part two ;-)

Thank you for all the comments on my last post.. and apologies for the delay in getting this post on line. I will get round to everyones blog individually over the next few days.

I stayed at my sisters at the weekend as her children went away with their dad so it was company for both of us. I did an interview with a local reporter on Monday to highlight hereditary breast cancers and to give some much needed PR for the genetic service and the local Macmillan drop in centre.

Last friday I ended up having to have some more seroma drained off... and it looks like I might have to go up again... as it looks like I have grown a small breast!

The time I spent in hospital set me up for afternoon naps! I had a 4 hour one this afternoon. The thought of keeping extra warm is a pull too, isnt it? its freezing...

Apart from tiredness and a bit of dizziness now and again.. tempered with a bit of nausea I am feeling fine.

Still not had any diet coke.... go me!!!

I will upload the cards I have made tomorrow.. I'm off for a nosey around the net now.. I am so out of touch with any new crafting items to *want* but not need.. ;-)

Cooooeeee blogging world, I'm home....

Gosh, h ave you seen my title? Anyone would think I had one of those blogs that get a 100 hits plus a day... so start again>>>>>

Coooeee my wonderful blogging buddies... I'm home...

My operation went very smoothly on the Wednesday morning, Came around in recovery gabbled a bit to the nurses , zonked again and then came around in the Ward, both my sisters were there although I didn't remember that until the night.. a couple of hours after I came around, they let me have a cuppa tea... BLISS! about half hour after that, i had the most painful pins and needles in my left hand, I mentioned it to the aux nurse who went to get the Sister, in the meantime..... on looking down, there was blood everywhere... then all these very calm doctors gathered around taking bloods for grouping etc and a mention of a transfusion made me a bit more alert.. YUCK. Then my fantastic Consultant arrived and said he would have to take me down to surgery again...that was after using the heel of his hand to assist the draining ... bleurgh.... he almost filled a drain bottle, (well it is near Halloween) that hurt!. I was sooo unlike me..... super cool, waving to my bed buddies on the way out, with a cheery..... " Won;t be long, see you soon "

Awoke back on the ward, pressure bandaged up.... no need for a transfusion.. phew....

Will be back tomorrow with the rest of my week, I'm sooo tired now...

Thank you to Chris and Tina for my lovely cards,,, they were beeeeeeeautiful.

See you all soon!

I'm 3 weeks late in uploading this as my god sons 21st was on the 24th September! Richard prefers to be called Rik, plays in a death metal band, dresses very alternatively, does not know what the word conformity means but is a good lad.



Right this is the last post for a while as in less then 4 hours I will be in the hospital, yep cant sleep even though I'm shattered... Now that is a complete contradiction isnt it!! Stopped drinking milk based drinks at midnight and am boosting my water intake. I have been 11 days without drinking diet coke which is a biggie for me... Go Gina!!!! I am determined to beat this addiction...

Till next week when hopefully I can get back to blogging properly, along with entering a few challenges.

Stay safe xxx

Bluming eck! I almost did it again...

There I was having a looksee around this here blogging tinternet.... and this bright idea came to me that I would really like a three column blog like Emmas. I found one and thought... yep I'm going to go for this... I even went to save current settings but somehow it wouldnt save.. ( must be me!!!)

Then I stopped!!!!! as if I had gone ahead I would have lost it all again... YIKES!!!!

So I will have another try tommorrow when I do get around to blog hopping and commenting...

I'm going to make a neon flashing sign or something when it comes to me and my bright ideas...

I'm here... still.

Quick update..... I go into hospital on Wednesday morning... de ja vu? hehe

I have had woman flu that pretended it was man flu so I have spent time in bed reading..

I have made some cards for the Breast Care Unit which I will upload later.... and tomorrow I'm going to have a blog hopping day...

Spent some time helping my sister out and a couple of friends who are going through a hard time...

I have bought some crafty stuff ( pats self on back for selling stuff on ebay to finance purchases) I bought the heart nestibilities along with the scalloped edged ones too... I so love Cut@home... :D

Catch you later, you bunch of fabulous women.. ( and maybe the odd fella or two?)

Thank you to the commenters on last post...

I reckon I have to admit defeat and start again..... its a learning curve eh!!

For now Im off to have something to eat then finish uploading to Ebay... then will come back to have a bit of a fiddle....

oh my god!!! my counter has gone too... (insert crying face and perplexed look too )

Its going to take a few days to get the blogs that I had on my side bar and the other things I liked having there too..

if you were on my side bar and you arent there at the moment... shout at me via comments... thank you xx

Help please!!!

I have lost all my links etc.... (insert crying face) I was trying to pretty up my blog and failed!!!

Can anyone talk me through how I reset my pc so that it goes back to yesterday and that any changes I have made will be undone???

Thank you in anticipation...

Oooeeerr Missus.... I'm back already!!!

Just when you thought you would get some peace from the blurblings of yours truly... She appears on line when Shes meant to be in hospital recovering from surgery....( what's all that talking in the third person all about??? I'll blame it on the emotions being everywhere ;))


HA!!!! now thats where we were all wrong...
I was at the theatre door at 1245, marked up, sexy surgical stockings on, wearing a lovely white hospital friendship bracelet, a designer slit up the back funky nightgown.... and was told that due to an emergency earlier on which had put the whole surgery list back, with my wonderful gorgeously caring, understanding, empathetic (<<< I won't go on, you get the picture!!! he's fab) having to do a breast clinic this afternoon with no registrar backup to fall back on if he ran anymore over. We have built up a lovely rapport over the years I have been seeing him and he gave me a massive hug along with his sincerest apologies and will organise an emergency list asap and I will be first on it...

So the bag is staying packed.... new pjs cant be worn before hospital, it just wouldnt be right.. :)

My poor sis had been awake from 4am and looked totally drained at the end of it all... bless her cottons, shes seen me through loads of health stuff.... She got a hug from Mr D too...

I've text the folk who were coming up to see me... bless them they will have to eat the grapes themselves...

So just to say, thank you for all your continued support.. I'm off to bed for a while now... xxx

Thankyou cards.

Thank you cards for the nurses on the ward. Plain and simple... bit like me!!!

Blog Candy, Thumbs up to moderation and more...

Superb candy over on Christines blog as well of course as wonderful inspiration, go have a look here >>>>>http://craftlingscosycorner.blogspot.com

Christine was one of the fore runners of the TAKE OFF THE VERIFICATION idea... which is probably one of the best things you can do for the readers and commenter's of your own blog, I did it and have never had a spam message since, so when people are afraid of getting loads of spam, it just doesnt happen! and if you should get a spam message, having user moderation gives you control of what does get shown on your blog comments.... how good is that?? brill I think.

I positively detest verification myself as reading a few letters jumbled up to represent what could be at least two different ways of reading the damn thing does nothing for my eyes and at times its taken that long to actually get the right letters that its given me a headache with that squinting you have to do..... inflicting pain is no good thing in my book.

I go into hospital on Wednesday morning... 0730!! and will later get around to the people who asked for my contact details..

I have made some thank you cards for the nurses on the ward and will upload them later,,, off to get some new pjs now .. xx

Poppicrafts cardboard flowers ..... and dating!

Still no cards!! but thought I would show a few of the therapy glittered flowers I have been doing...



I have spent a fair few evenings this past week helping a friend with setting up her pc and setting up profiles on facebook and a couple of dating sites... I've been a bit mother hen about it all! suffice to say after practically writing all her profile and answering the standard questions for her, she is getting a fair few mails rolling in. Am a bit concerned as most of them seem seasoned daters. (Takes off protective motherly hat!)

As I have not contribuated anything creative to write home about and instead have ohhh'd and ahhhh'd over the blogs on my list somewhere over there and down a bit>>>>>

I thought I would post a photo of my sister's dog Buddy... proving that he loves Marmite.. ( I had washed it out first!!) He is sooooo cute..

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Has she? has'nt she?

Nope!! I haven't made a card.... I wouldnt say my mo jo has gone, its just in hiding as my brain has loads of ideas but they dont seem to transpire into anything... I am however determined to make some thank you cards in prep for when I come out of hosp...

I did receive today in the post a set of long rectangle nesties.. YAY!!! how cool is Cut@home, megga cool in my books... I ordered them on the 27th August ... now thats super fast by anyones standards... and with the amazing discount, I decided to use the last of my paypal funds to buy them and some elzybell stamps. Now I have a wish list on my side bar of things I would like when I have sold some more items via ebay... This not working is affecting my stash addiction majorily... but in the scheme of things...it will teach me some more patience :]

Thank you thank you to those people who kindly left me messages on the previous post, you touched me immensely, the blogging community is awesome :] I will mail those who asked with my home address...

Again.. thank you soooooooooooo much.. xxx

I have my date for my mastectomy

I received a call from the surgeons secretary earlier to say that I am booked in on Wednesday of this week.... it was on my answerphone as I was being a hermit with regards to phone calls... (bad girl)

I went into instant flap as I have a v important legal meeting the end of this week.. Rang the hospital and they have now booked me in for the 17th September which gives me time to do the legal meeting and a few other things...

Maybe now I can stop doing nothing and start to prioritise my time a bit better. Still doing lots of colouring in and glitttering but not much else!

I'm still here... but no crafts to show...

I'd love to say that my absence has been due to having a varied and hectic social life... in fact its been due to being low in mood and sleeping loads...

I'm fine, this will pass... its only because I have so much going on in my head that its my safety zone to close down.... I have spoken to my doctor about it...

I have on the odd occasion done the odd crafting thing... but mainly painting chipboard flowers, covering them in glitter and dimensional magic. I think its my own therapy... :]

I thought I had better make a post as I received an email from Tracy who owns tracyjanecrafts who has noted that I have not posted.... which led me to slap my own legs and post this... (thank Q tracy)

Keep on taking care out there :]