a Newbie needing reassurance

Dear Kath, so sorry to hear your news. Yes it's a shock and very scary.  The treatment can be most unpleasant at times, at other times it's quite ok.  90% of woman with breast cancer survive five years.  This is very good news.  You just have to turn up for the treatment and manage the side effects.  There is medication to help with side effects.   It turns out we women with breast cancer are much stronger than we knew.   Amazingly we cope somehow through the treatment and the fear and then most of us move on with our lives.  Our energy returns, our hair grows, we wear our scars proudly.  We will never be the same again, in many ways this is not a bad thing.  The very best of luck to you.  Karen