Freaky Friday 6th Nov-daily chat..

becky_rtw

Nom nom nom - just had my once a month fast food treat and am merrily munching a chicken royale - its lush!!!

bank_of_slate

I have some chicken curry soup to eat for lunch!
...Linda xx

Snaggles

Good afternoon.

Feel shattered, I have been running round like a crazy lady this week, and still have LOADS to do.

Need to have the house immaculate before 4pm so I can have a bath and be groomed and glam by the time Mr Sunday gets here at 5.30pm.

We are going to the theatre and then to a Lebanese restaurant. I've never had Lebanese food before but it sounds nice from the quick bit of Google-research I've done. Then we are coming back to my house to drink red wine and spiced rum.

Looking forward to it.

Ames

Grr, I really need to remember to subscribe to this thread every day!

Wow, giant pumpkin!

Toto, I think you said that really well, I'd never have thought of it in that way before.

Postie just brought me two skirts I bought on ebay, and I've just won a cardy/coat for a fiver inc postage! It's a style I've loved for ages but they were £75 new which I couldn't afford. They seem to have gone out of fasion though, I got one in August for a tenner, another one last night for £14 and then this one (all in different colours). They're great for coats in all except really freezing weather, but also great for cardi's inside.

Ames

Have fun Snaggles, let me know if the play's any good, I'm going with my book club on monday, we're going for the theatre special meal at a restaurent next door (can't remember the name, begins with a K). They do three courses for £15, yay.

Snaggles

Toto, I had never looked at it that way. If you know someone well enough to know they are too intelligent to be taken in by fad diets or 'miracle cures', then it's worth asking yourself why they are choosing to put their faith in it.

And if it gives hope where no other hope exists, then we should think twice before taking that hope away.

Really well put, thank you.

But I hope your friend does still have the chance to make a full recovery with treatment SRM.

Snaggles

Ames wrote: »

Have fun Snaggles, let me know if the play's any good, I'm going with my book club on monday, we're going for the theatre special meal at a restaurent next door (can't remember the name, begins with a K). They do three courses for £15, yay.

It has had very good reviews, and there is a little clip of it on the WYP website, which is very interesting.

I have waterproof mascara and tissues, just in case!

Snaggles

And he just sent me a message offering to assemble my bed (the only job left) and have a go at sorting out some artwork for my wall.

Whyyyyyy can't he just wake up tomorrow and be madly in love with me!!!

*stamps feet*

*realises stamping feet is probably not way to make sexy man fall in love with her*

*leaves quietly...*

sammy115

Toto wrote: »

Hi SRM, ok, here are my thoughts on this. To be honest it depends upon how terminal her illness is. Do her doctors think chemo will possibly cure her or just buy her more time?

When mum had her breast cancer she knew that it was going to kill her. She did have chemo but that made her so sick, to be honest that itself almost killed her. She was taking tamoxifen which also made her sick. The doctors kept saying that at best they expected her to live for 12-24 months. Her cancer had spread, the lymph nodes were all cancerous on her left breast and all she was told to do was sit and wait for the next tumour to show up before the doctors could treat her.

She started taking some quack shark tablets which she got from a website in the US, it was sold to her with massive promises. She also followed some nonsense diet and it all cost an absolute fortune.

At the time I kept thinking she was being robbed blind by people who were selling her crap for a small fortune, capitalising on her illness and I was furious. She stopped taking the tamoxifen and quit chemo. She died a few weeks later.

Now, looking back, I realise that she was never going to get better. I never really thought she would die to be honest until the day it happened out of the blue. Then I realised after I found her diary that when she was spending all of that money on these diets and supplements that she wasn't buying a cure, she was buying hope. Something the medical profession had taken from her bit by bit. The entries she made when she first got her pills from the US were full of thoughts about what she would do when she felt better and how she was going to beat this b*stard disease.

I stopped being angry at those people because even though the outcome was inevitable, endless rounds of chemo would have left her unable to move from her bed and bleeding from every inch of her body.

The last entry she made read 'I know I probably won't see my children's future or the grandbabies they haven't made yet, but I will keep trying and hoping, I owe my kids that'. She passed away 3 days later.

So, my advice is to listen to your friend and try to think about what she is actually buying with this diet. If her cancer might be cured with a couple of rounds of chemo then yes, she should absolutely have the treatment. But if the outcome isn't going to be good regardless of medical intervention then personally I would try to support her decision and let her see you are hopeful for her and her diet too. Almost certainly the diet won't do a thing to cure her but if it helps her to enjoy the time she has left then that is priceless.

Hugs to you, I feel so sad for all of you. This is a cruel and evil disease and I hope with all of my heart your friend can recover.

eyes leakin now.....so sad but so beautiful Toto...

tigzem

Snags... I'm confused I thought Mr Sunday was long gone...?x