I'm good thanks

Cook65
Cook65 Member Posts: 733
edited September 2016 in Health and wellbeing

Hi All, I hope everyone is travelling well.

Well. I've had an epiphany!!! I'm good thanks. For a long time when people asked me how I was I would always say good thanks regardless of how I was feeling.  But today I actually mean it. I'm feeling the best I have in a very, very long time. I have been ill with auto immune pancreatitis for 9 years and have not been stable in this time. When they finally started to stabilise my condition, I was diagnosed with breast cancer and could no longer take the medications I was on.  I completed my treatment for breast cancer in June last year and 12 months on, I can actually say that I'm good and mean it. Yes, I still get tired and yes, I still suffer the effects of chemo which will probably now be with me for the rest of my life but that's ok. I'm good thanks. For so long, I didn't think I would ever be out of the fog of treatments. Breast cancer treatment took it out of me. I didn't think I would ever be good again.  It has been a hard slog but I'm good.  It's a wonderful feeling. I will still have to have infusions on a roughly 6 monthly cycle to keep the AIP at bay but that's ok too because I'm good! In case you didn't get it, I feel like screaming from the mountain tops. I'm good!!!

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  • mum2jj
    mum2jj Member Posts: 4,315
    edited June 2016

    Good to hear and Good for you!!!!

    Very happy for you.

    Paula xxxxxxx :)

  • Jennybutter
    Jennybutter Member Posts: 156
    edited June 2016

    That is awesome to hear!!

    CheersJen ?? ?? ?? xx 

     

  • prudencerose
    prudencerose Member Posts: 35
    edited June 2016

    Well done you!??????

    gives the rest of us hope. 

  • jd48
    jd48 Member Posts: 484
    edited June 2016

    That is absolutely awsome and so happy for you

    ?????????????????????????

    Jel

  • Deanne
    Deanne Member Posts: 2,163
    edited June 2016

    Really happy for you! After such a long time it must be just so wonderful! I hope it continues, you certainly deserve to feel good after everything you have been through. ??

    Deanne xxx

  • Jane_Elizabeth
    Jane_Elizabeth Member Posts: 158
    edited June 2016

    What a great feeling to be able to reply "good" and realize that you mean it!

    So much of our discourse is routine, but to stop, think, and still give that same reply??......it must be GOOD! Congratulations, it sounds like it was a long journey to get there.

    Jane

     

  • rowdy
    rowdy Member Posts: 1,165
    edited June 2016

    Yay it is such a good feeling to actually feel good. I remember at Christmas I lost it because I kept telling people that I was good and I really wasn't coping. Having the meltdown was what I needed as I also needed to admit that I wasn't s well as I was telling everyone. I now feel I'm moving on with some help and I also feel better than I have for a while. Life keeps giving us crap to deal with and we have to keep putting one foot in front of the other. Life is good I'm happy you are feeling good xx. 

  • Brenda5
    Brenda5 Member Posts: 2,423
    edited June 2016

    Nice to be off the merry-go-round of multiple specialist appointments isn't it? Glad you are feeling better now.

  • Jane221
    Jane221 Member Posts: 1,194
    edited June 2016

    So great to hear you've turned a corner and can finally really feel good :-) I hope you feel that way for a long time to come. Jane xx

  • CatherineMary
    CatherineMary Member Posts: 0
    edited June 2016

    I think that's awesome!

    xxx

  • primek
    primek Member Posts: 5,392
    edited June 2016

    Fabulous

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Orbost, VictoriaPosts: 0
    edited June 2016

    Fantastic news Honey 

  • Cook65
    Cook65 Member Posts: 733
    edited June 2016

    Thanks everyone xox

  • ScorpionQueen
    ScorpionQueen Member Posts: 768
    edited June 2016

    So glad you actually mean it!

    Nearly every day I lie too! My brother in law is the worst...he always says, you're good, you don't look sick, but you're good aren't you? Little does he know that I just dragged myself out of bed, challenged to get dressed and struggled to put a smile on my face for everyone else...

    You have made an epic trek up that mountain, overcome so much, triumphed! so ,Get on atop that mountain and scream it LOUD!

    All the best!

    xx

     

  • Cook65
    Cook65 Member Posts: 733
    edited June 2016

    I saw my endocrinologist a week and a half ago and I no longer need to see him unless I develop diabetes or get put back on steroids full time. Yay. Today I saw my immunologist and I don't need to see him for 6 months. This is the longest I have gone without seeing him. It's been confirmed, my AIP is in remission. I am cancer free and in remission! Yep, I really am good! This means no more infusions for at least 7 months. I had bloods done today but will need no more of them for 7 months either. Yippee