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Wondering if this will ever be over
Not a good day today. I had a lumpectomy on Monday and went back to see the surgeon today only to find out that one of the margins was not great enough so am now scheduled for another surgery on the ...
Like many I've been through a cancer diagnosis (20 years apart and two different cancers), with chemo for both, and a bilateral mastectomy. In 1995 I was 'cured' and it returned. The 1996 cure worked, but I always knew it made me high risk for BC, but it still didn't make discovering it easy. Like most other people I don't know what lies ahead. What I have seen is the vast improvement there has been in treatments available and I know that in the next 5 years there will be options we don't have now. It is frustrating to have thrown everything at the cancer, been crippled by the treatment, and discover one sneaky cell managed to hide. I like to think I'm a more patient, compassionate and loving person as a result of knowing how fortunate I am to be able to receive treatment (which doesn't mean I'm any of those things really, just not the self-centred person I could have been without the experience). Keep the tissues close by, put one foot in front of the other, and continue to learn more about treatments than you ever wanted to know.