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Welcome!!
Welcome Jo and Olga to the Melbourne Meet & Greet group! I look forward to growing this group to enable opportunity for group members to meet in person with other members to share their cancer experiences. I have just completed a Bilateral Mastectomy after second diagnosis of breast cancer 12 months after the initial…
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IMPORTANT: Planned site outage
Hi all, Just to let you know that the developers have been working on fixing a couple of bugs in the online network and now have some new code to be deployed. This will be deployed tomorrow morning (Tuesday Nov 29), sometime between 9am and 10am and requires the site be offline temporarily. We anticipate it will be very…
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Nice to feel good!
A month ago yesterday I got my diagnosis, and 3 weeks yesterday since my right mastectomy....still can't believe I have (had??) Breast Cancer! Have felt good today...first day in a month I haven't shed any tears! Maybe I am finally accepting my goodluck...no chemo or rad, just tamoxifen, and not too many hot flushes…
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Robrobbie
Maybe I am not using this network properly Contacts seem to have a privacy setting turned on. Whats the point of having a network ifyou are only prepared to share with a certain group that fits some criteria ? I dont get it.
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Coping with a young family and Breast Cancer
Hi all, Who has a young family? How are you all coping physically and emotionally through the treatment journey. I am very lucky I have family here helping me continuously. I would seriously be lost without them. I was far to sick on FEC... now I am onto Taxotere I think I am coping a little better, but it is only Day 3,…
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Anxious
Just had my first dose of Dexamethasone as I am starting chemo tomorrow. What should I expect to be feeling after taking this medication, how helpful have others found it to be with their chemo. Any suggestions for tomorrow and beyond.. Thanks Maria L
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Thank you everyone
Hi Ladies, I just wanted to say thank you so much for all your messages and replies on my last blog. Its so nice and over whelming to know so many people care and will take the time out to message me and all your messages put a smile on my face.. xxxx love you dani
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Advice for young women before they start treatment
Hi, I was finally motivated to join this on-line forum after receiving the latest version of the Beacon. As I read the results of the survey on radiotherapy, I nearly cried as I realised how many women have received long-lasting radiation burns from their treatment. My story is that I was diagnosed at 39 nearly six years…
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House of chaos!
Did I say "happy days"in my last blog??We have been in our new house now for 6 weeks and it's still total chaos.Carpets in,fences up,foxtel on, antenna on the roof(hubby's priorities),flyscreens and blinds done,pergola up,garden shed up,ikea furniture put together(I went out that day).Just waiting on some more furniture…
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How to get on public hospital waitlist for breast reconstruction?
Hello, Can anyone advise me how to get on the public waitlist for reconstruction surgery? I am in Sydney near RPAH. I will probably suss out how much is costs privately but would like to also put down for public in case I can't afford it and I assume it is a long waitlist! Thank You, Julia
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In Search of understanding my own feelings towards ?friends?
Friends becomes EX-friends or my own post bc anti-social behaviour?? Funny that as a BC survivor - I am kind of bit lost in this "evaluation & prioritising" life & thinking about "WHO I REALLY WANT TO BE" stage. Adjusting back to normal life again. I am finding myself again as you go through during your teens. We have…
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Happy Birthday to my 10 year old Daughter
Dear Micky, Happy 10th Birthday! Wow! double figures - I had no idea when I birthed you 10 years ago how you would change my world. How when I looked in your eyes and we connected there was an instant bond. I was amazed how my body grew and sustained you, how my breasts alone provided you nutrition. So many memories -…
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Welcome
Welcome to Sharon, the first member of Group 21!
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Lets talk about sex bay -be
Congrats to BCNA on another great resource available to us...... I have just read a copy of Breast Cancer and Sexual Wellbeing. It is a topic that is well overdue for discussion in Breast Cancer circles and still a topic that I personally would like to see more discussion about. The booklet covers a range of topics ranging…
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Hello Everyone
Hello, I've just joined - in fact it's the first online network i've ever taken part in, so i'm a bit unsure if I'm doing things right. Anyway, I had breast cancer 3 years ago and had surgery, chemo, radiotheraphy and continued on with hormone therapy but this year a CT scan (after months of back problems) showed my cancer…