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About to enter survivorship
Well peeps. In three days I will finish radiation and enter survivorship. The bold strong young lady you all met in February has changed significantly. Still strong but wow what a hard 6 months it's been. Having hormone positive BC so young has challenged me physically and mentally more than I was ever prepared for, even…
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Tiredness
Diagnosed 6 years ago but constantly feel tired. They told me I wouldn't feel like this after 2 years. Anyone else have issues and what do you do
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Survivor guilt
Feeling something this week I didn’t expect. Almost 2 years down the track from diagnosis and mastectomy I lost a close friend to the big C this week. Younger than me. We grew up together- families very close. Couldn’t believe how hard it impacted me- more than losing anyone before. After a few days I have come to the…
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Life after active treatment- books?
Hi ladies, My Radiotherapy is now complete and I started on Tamoxifen a couple of weeks ago. Back to work and trying to get back to a ‘normal’ life, everything feels different, looks different. The prospect of losing everything has changed everything. Wondering if anyone has read any good books on the topic? Or online…
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Back from the outback and scan day tomorrow.
Hi everybody. I have been AWOL for a bit and I do hope everyone is going along ok with whatever stage of the rollercoaster you're dealing with. My "say yes to all invitations without thinking" policy has had me trekking all over the place. Some of you may know my not so fondness for camping, nor road trips, but I had…
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Shifting priorities
I am just past two years from BC. It is only now that everything has hit me so deeply. What I had, what happened to the before me, losing friends, so many things just falling away one by one. I feel so tearful and confused most days. I have seen a psychologist. I am exercising. I am back at work. And everything is going…
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Just when you think you can't.....turns out you can!
Hi all,I haven't had a chance to be on here in a while and have been missing you lot :) I hope everyone is getting along ok no matter what stage of the rollercoaster you are at. So, what the heck have I been doing???? The problem Broken husband. Poor DH has been dealing with a crook shoulder for close to a couple of years…
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Post Treatment Letdown
I am just over a year from my initial diagnosis of breast cancer. I had a lumpectomy and node clearance a week after diagnosis, started 6 months of chemo about 4 weeks later, radiotherapy about 6 weeks after chemo and DIEP breast reconstruction 5 weeks after finishing radiation. I am now just over 10 weeks post surgery and…
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Sleep
"We know that as many as 6 in 10 cancer survivors have problems of insomnia, which is up to three times the rate found in the general population." @SoldierCrab pointed out the Survivorship Center and I found this leaflet in their resources: Can-Sleep making night time sleep problems go away from the Peter MacCallum Cancer…
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Menopause article
This is a long read about how the patriarchal world has framed menopause, and the author's response to that and her own menopause. I found it fascinating. https://longreads.com/2019/06/14/darcey-steinke-on-menopause/
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Anyone ever get sick of being their own science experiment?????
I really get the shits with overthinking every so often. Things that "before" you would never have thought twice about doing, eating or cleaning your house with now make you second guess a lot of things. Obviously I am not the only one considering the amount of conversations that go on here regarding the do's, don'ts and…