Treatment, hysterectomy, mastectomy, and now an emotional mess!

Thank you @SoldierCrab. Will be listening to the last one shortly. K xox

https//youtu.be/BiqlZZddZEo relaxing Celtic music

https//youtu.be/cyBBZGfUnMs  Healing Chinese ZEN music of Anxiety & Stress 

crystal meditation guided https//youtu.be/YUZWu_EiQhs

tibetan singing bowls mindfulness bell.... https//youtu.be/wGFog-OuFDM

this is my absolute favourite.. https://youtu.be/JHm4uo7dZaM  this helps me sleep peacefully 

Hi there  @TripleTea.
I would think since at least 3 weeks following your hysterectomy you should be able to doing walking. Certainly that is no issue with expanders in. If your scars are completely healed up you could also do some pool exercises. Maybe not swimming or aquafit yet but certainly walking and doing yout post op exercises in the water will assist you to regain your strength. The fabulous thing with exercise is it really helps our mental health.

Doing some mindfulness techniques and practising slowing your breath can also help when you are feeling panicky or stressed. Practising the breathing outside those times means you can do them easily when it happens. Try downloading some apps (free) and see which you like. Calm...is one. Smiling minds is another and also Minshift. All have assisted relaxation info on them.

With diagnosis comes all the fear and we just go into the fight of saving our life. Shifting from that to being a survivor is hard. We all fear recurrence. It's  normal. If it preoccupies your life...talk to someone about that. I think only after all the surgery is done and treatment over do we really start to grieve.
We grieve for the loss of feeling safe with our health.
We grieve for the loss of the hormones that made us women.
We grieve for the removal of those body parts.
We grieve for the changes it has on relationships.
Yes...it's normal but it is  hard.

Survivorship is about figuring out how to pick up the  pieces if your life and reclaim it...forever changed you will be, but a life worth the fight for. 

It does get better. Kath x

@SoldierCrab I have an app on my phone, Headspace, I like it.  I have some cds too but cd player is under the house somewhere and it's beyond me to find it at the mo. I'll check out You Tube. Do you have a favourite there?

@kmakm
do you have any Mediation Cds or on IPOD 

You can find some on Youtube 

Interesting @sister.

Currently pathetically attempting to fend the bandicoots off with a wobbly stick. I'm finding this weekend a challenge with my immobility & everyone else's delightful activity. Exercise not advisable or possible today but will have a bash at meditation. Thanks for the reminder @SoldierCrab.

@TripleTea and @kmakm In January I could finally say after 18 months that I've gone into natural menopause.  I often felt as if my body was going through the motions of menstruation without any result other than a couple of episodes 12 months before so I don't think it's strange that the drugs could mimic that.

@zoffiel Those bandicoots do get around, don't they? 

Sounds pretty normal to me, it is a reaction that anyone diagnosed with cancer feels. Do you have a local cancer support group, where you can access some face yo face support and fellowship ? Also, you may be able to access some govt funded counselling services to confidentially work through your feelings (I think that they fund 5-6 per year, needs a dr referral)
Hoping that this helps xxx
Cuddles, Trace

When you get dropped into the mincer life changes. Yes, you can get some form and structure back ( being rebirthed as one of those revolting fat pork sausages has been a personal insult but never mind) however the whole business screws you over. 

BC version 1 I just got on with it like a good girl. This time? Porridge Woman. Sans tits and ovaries and great chunks of meat from under my arm--not, of course, the Nana wings I'd be happy to lose--on a variety of crappy meds I am, to borrow someone else analogy, a miserable Bandicoot. 

Trotting off and dumping everything on a mental health professional of your choice is helpful. So is exercise. You can't turn back the clock and that, I believe, is the thing that is hardest for me. I don't stress to much about the future, but I do grieive for what has passed. 

On we trudge. One foot in front of the other. Repeat. Mxxx

Ladies @primek
 said something very true a little while ago elsewhere that is Survivorship is hard.... it comes with the fact we can go forward, but also the impact of the treatment on our lives and those around us. it also comes with the what ifs..... Take it one day at a time when things are particularly bad take it an hour or minute at a time..... 
mediation has helped me to regroup and refocus on the positives....