Radiation and how you felt

Dear Bel,

I had been struggling with a hectic lifestyle, all because of a silly business. In May 2011, I was diagnosed with a 20mm ductal carcinoma with a Her2+ receptor on it,  had chemo at 3 weekly intervals and took "slippery elm powder" orally  to get through the chemo effects of ACDC, then coped with damage to my organs due to chemotoxicity, when prescribed the combination of docataxel and a targeted therapy drug Herceptin. Radiotherapy took  a toll because it was constant for 6weeks & the daily comings and goings is what tired me.So expect to take some time off to recover partway through. I worked casual, work part-time but don't over do it, or you may pay for it later. Your hubby's routine may have to change several times, your survival needs matter, so think of what you need.The diagnoses, treatment and everything has to change. The diagnosis has an effect on everybody you know. Trust yourself, you are the person to co-manage it, speak-up about it, and your needs, as best as you can, balance that with restful moments. Reflect on your life experience when you can, you may, or may not, know of people who expect far too much, and have leaned on you or been unsupportive for a time. Whereby, you may have felt annoyed about it, and for a longwhile, but you buried the thought and it happened to manifest in your breast region, in an area where our sexuality, our right to nuture oursel, andability to re, may be intersecting), and you secretly knew that something must change, or that something else had to give, because things could not keep going this way for you, the turning of any tide takes place individually and collectively with every little ripple. Something had to stop, so that life may be breathed into a healing space, to review how patterns of nurturing have changed within our lives, and our world.

All the best on your nuturing nature journey,

hugs from a fellow space traveller on the journey,

Alison