Dee's Blog Bit

I've just had a new comment on my blog, and a few people have Emailed me, to see how I am.. so I thought I'd better write something before everyone thinks I've fallen from the face of the earth!

It's been a hectic couple of months in some ways, but very quiet in others..

Radiotherapy ended about four weeks ago.  I had 30 sessions (daily, for 6 weeks), which burned me quite badly, but everything's nicely healed now, and I can wear my normal underwear again.. yay!

On Tuesday, I found out I should be starting Herceptin soon.  That'll mean a treatment every 3 weeks for either a year or two years.. they don't really know which works best yet.  I have to have another heart scan first, to make sure my heart can cope with the drugs, as one of the possible side-effects of Herceptin, is heart failure.  So it's good to make sure everything's tickety boo before it starts!

I now have enough hair to go without any kind of head covering, so I've been wandering around with my new short, funky, spikey hair do, for the past few weeks!

Yesterday, I found out I have no job to go back to.
I've been off work for the past nine months, but have kept going in to visit my workmate and boss.  Now my boss has let the shop go, so I'm out of a job.  And with at least a years worth of treatment ahead of me, I'm not pinning any hopes on finding a new one very easily.
Still, for the first time in my life, I'm recieving benefits, and should continue to do so while treatment's still going, so there's no desperate hurry to find a job straight away.. I'm just a bit strapped for cash!

What else?
Oh yes, I've met a lovely chap!
I actually first spoke to him in December and met him in January (he's one of the great bunch of folks, I went up to Scotland with).  But it took until February for us to get our act together, and we're at that lovey dovey stage, which is good!
Amidst all the crap of the past year, he's my 'good'.  I'm not sure he realises just how much 'good' he's been.
In the absence of the job I loved, and things to look forward to, he's been my focus.. He's given me something to live for, I suppose.

On 3rd April, I celebrated my 30th birthday.
I spent the weekend with friends, family and James.  It was a lovely weekend.
Last year, I didn't know if I'd even get to 30, but I did. I'm feeling well, and I'm happy.  So here's to another 30 happy, healthy years!