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Re: Sutherland Shire Breast Cancer Support Group
Update to our start time ,contact info and just realised i didn't put insta tag on that @ssbcsg
Kristen
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Re: Newly diagnosed
Hello @herplv - your feelings are exactly what we all went through in those early days so you are not alone.
I see you are outside Melbourne but I don't know that area. Do you know where you will go for treatment ? Hopefully there will be ladies on here who live near you so they can give you some advice re local services etc. You say you will be having a mastectomy - are you in the private or public hospital sector ?
Have you thought about reconstruction ?
Do you have a supportive partner or other family to attend appointments with you ? Always a good idea as they can be a second set of ears when your mind is stuck elsewhere.
Make notes and take them with you to appointments. We need to be our own advocates.
Be kind to yourself, take things one day at a time. Cry if you feel like it as that is a good stress relief.
Come back and chat any time. No question is too small or too silly. 💖
I see you are outside Melbourne but I don't know that area. Do you know where you will go for treatment ? Hopefully there will be ladies on here who live near you so they can give you some advice re local services etc. You say you will be having a mastectomy - are you in the private or public hospital sector ?
Have you thought about reconstruction ?
Do you have a supportive partner or other family to attend appointments with you ? Always a good idea as they can be a second set of ears when your mind is stuck elsewhere.
Make notes and take them with you to appointments. We need to be our own advocates.
Be kind to yourself, take things one day at a time. Cry if you feel like it as that is a good stress relief.
Come back and chat any time. No question is too small or too silly. 💖
June1952
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Re: Struggling through Chemo
Thanks Katie 😊, the bell better be ready for me 😂.
I’m dressing up today in a tutu and a crazy coloured wig….. I want to have some fun today!
I saw the oncologist on Friday and had to walk the corridor heel to toe to ensure my balance hasn’t been affected before my last treatment, I passed and she congratulated me.
Hope you are enjoying your week off, how’s your mouth? Has your taste come back? Oh I can’t wait to rid this taste, I’m 6 kgs down now so hanging on to 54kgs. Hopefully tuck into that Chinese before radiation 😂. I’m living on cheese and tomato toasties with copious amounts of pepper….. never eaten pepper in my life! Lots of ginger lollies and black tea.
Hope you are enjoying your week off, how’s your mouth? Has your taste come back? Oh I can’t wait to rid this taste, I’m 6 kgs down now so hanging on to 54kgs. Hopefully tuck into that Chinese before radiation 😂. I’m living on cheese and tomato toasties with copious amounts of pepper….. never eaten pepper in my life! Lots of ginger lollies and black tea.
Just mulched my 300 veggie seedlings I planted on Saturday before going to work 😂, I’m a glutton for punishment but I can’t stay put.
Better get “dressed up” and go ring that bell!
Better get “dressed up” and go ring that bell!
Rona
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Re: Struggling through Chemo
Hi everyone, sorry to hear you are having a hard time of the supposed “easy chemo” GorgyS. You are brave to keep going, I would be scared even though I have total faith in those nurses. I really hope the steroids and antihistamines help you to finish your treatment without more reactions. Keep talking to us about it all, understanding this path in life is definitely something we can all agree on.
Katie, wow, eight rounds, we’ve come a long way since the diagnosis of “you have breast cancer”. I still struggle with fatigue and that taste but then I spare a thought for the 57 women who were diagnosed today unexpectedly like me and the 57 tomorrow……. so happy then to be on the “other side”.
I stuffed up with my calculations on when I’m supposed to have my last infusion. I went in on Tuesday ready to ring the bell and my nurse said….. are you sure this is your last??? Ummmm, yes! Well no was the correct answer 😂. So next Tuesday is the last.
I stuffed up with my calculations on when I’m supposed to have my last infusion. I went in on Tuesday ready to ring the bell and my nurse said….. are you sure this is your last??? Ummmm, yes! Well no was the correct answer 😂. So next Tuesday is the last.
Fatigue is really hitting me hard along with that taste. I’m thinking 4 weeks till I’m off out for Chinese and then a steak with red wine jus soon after. I miss the taste of food. Still on a weight loss because of it.
My finger nails are all brown too and painful. My thumb nail is hanging in there. I’ve lost 2 toenails too.
I’m working full time with overtime and it’s almost killed me. My body really can’t take much more of this poison.
How are you Maree 72? So sad to read what you are going through. No words can help but rest assured you are not alone and we understand. When I was on the AC and not coping (which I didn’t cope most of the time) I told myself I was one of the chosen few to experience this and now that I am almost done with chemo….. I wouldn’t change any of it…… I’ve crossed it off the bucket list 😊
Rona
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