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Izabella Tue 22-Nov-16 08:29:03

If it is a mammogram appointment you will be able to ring up and make a later time that fits in with your buses. There may also be a mobile unit nearer to home that you could tap into. It is certainly worth a phone call and a chat to the imaging reception team. Good luck with all of this. ?

Anya Tue 22-Nov-16 06:45:50

Sending you positive vibes. Hoping today goes smoothly as that's one less worry.

Alima Tue 22-Nov-16 06:28:29

Hope you get to your meeting in time today after having a good night's sleep. Good luck with the journey.

Jane10 Tue 22-Nov-16 06:17:04

Sending positive vibes and best wishes Shanma. Its always darkest before the dawn , this too shall pass etc etc. I hope you get to your big meeting and maybe could you phone the mammography dept and explain your difficulty with getting there? Worrying about the result is something that I suspect we all do. Sorry, no comfort there other than that you are not alone.flowers

Bellanonna Tue 22-Nov-16 00:23:24

Shanma, your anxieties are real, but they're always worse at this time. The last thing you want is a heap if worries before a night when you need to sleep. But it's Sod's law, isn't it; the more anxious, the less likely we are to sleep. Tests of all kinds are always worrying. I take it the mammogram is a routine one? A lot of us on here probably envisage a scenario where we are ill and how will our less able other half cope? But it hasn't happened, it's just a hypothetical question at the moment. From a practical viewpoint maybe you could have some mental plans in place. I had thought of respite, too, but hadn't considered that OH would refuse - though he probably would. In your case is there family who could sort things out for you? And if possible try strategies to cope with what for now are unfounded anxieties. More immediately let's hope your journey works out ok and you get to the meeting on time. If you don't, I'm sure you won't be the only one. For the future could you get a short supply of pills for sleeping that you can hang onto and use sparingly? Have you got a xword or a book you can relax with?
All the best for tomorrow.
And I do hope anyone in these flooded areas, Somerset especially, is not badly affected.

ninathenana Tue 22-Nov-16 00:10:31

To late for me to compose a helpful reply but didn't want to read and run.
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Shanma Tue 22-Nov-16 00:02:56

Awful Awful weather. I hope none of you were flooded? We were ok here but the rain was torrential all day long, and the wind howled. So loud was the rain on the windows that I couldn't hear myself speaking on the 'phone. Tomorrow is my big meeting involving the two long bus journeys, one to York, then change to Leeds. Yoor floods regularly as does the road approaching it from where we live. I really hope that this will not be the case. I think West Yorkshire has it bad too so will be a small miracle if I actually get to where I am meant to be.
I worry about that. I worry if I will have a good night and get some sleep, and I worry that IF that is the case, will I wake up in time hmm

I am all screwed up, but was thinking to myself that once i have this done I might get a bit of peace and quiet for a while, NO
Post arrived lunchtime and there was an appointment for me to go for a mammogram in two weeks time. I was discharged from the hospital three years ago after breast cancer, and I dread doing this and waiting for the results.

You know what bothers me most though? not the fact that I may have something, may need an operation, but how the hell we will manage if I do. Hubby has PD, and whilst he manages pretty well under the circumstances he is not safe at night, very disturbed nights and falls sometimes( This is why I hardly sleep), I know one can have respite care but no way would he agree to that, and if he did we also have an old dog to consider. I also work and would miss my earnings if I were to be laid off. I wouldn't get any help as I am pension age.

I also have no idea how I would get to the Hospital at the ridiculously early time they want you in for an op. No one to take me, buses not going at such a time. Too far for a taxi, cannot afford it. Oh Boy I must have done something terrible in a former life because I keep getting one heap of chucked at me straight after the other sad
Sorry just ignore me I wanted a moan.