new member Soccermum1 seeking support
Soccermum1 posted this on the Activity page I have made a new discussion so she will get some replies etc. soccermum1 Hello everyone I was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer on about...
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Welcome @soccermum1,
This is a wonderful place for support and love. We have all felt sorry for ourselves along the way, plus fear and just down right anger at the whole darn situation.
Everybody here knows exactly how you are feeling. It is a rollercoaster. Swinging from "yep, I got this" to cloudy fog of doom and despair. My twins were three days of turning 18 when I found out. Happy Birthday right?
How to cope with it? Well everyone does things in their own way. For me, I got busy. Busy enough so I didn't have to think. I renovated, repaired, patched, painted, went camping ( I hate camping) dug out weeds (I hate gardening too). Anything that would stop me thinking about it. The more normal things I did, the better I coped. I banned any talk of breast cancer at social functions and the more normal things I could put in my life the better.
Everybody thinks you just get the treatment done and go back to normal afterwards. They don't know any better and let's hope they never do. No body who hasn't been there understands. There is a fairly similar thread throughout the whole thing, there are a lot of variations and individualty of course, but as you start reading through you will find lots of helpful tips, tricks and coping ideas on the forum. There is so much information available here and most of the time it's far more useful than any doctor will tell you. They tend to leave out the emotional side of things. This forum is where you can come for that support.
It is a long road with a lot of mountains to climb but you will be ok. You will get it done and when you are finished, slowly, slowly the glimmers of light start to appear. All the best lovely.
xoxoxoxox
This is a wonderful place for support and love. We have all felt sorry for ourselves along the way, plus fear and just down right anger at the whole darn situation.
Everybody here knows exactly how you are feeling. It is a rollercoaster. Swinging from "yep, I got this" to cloudy fog of doom and despair. My twins were three days of turning 18 when I found out. Happy Birthday right?
How to cope with it? Well everyone does things in their own way. For me, I got busy. Busy enough so I didn't have to think. I renovated, repaired, patched, painted, went camping ( I hate camping) dug out weeds (I hate gardening too). Anything that would stop me thinking about it. The more normal things I did, the better I coped. I banned any talk of breast cancer at social functions and the more normal things I could put in my life the better.
Everybody thinks you just get the treatment done and go back to normal afterwards. They don't know any better and let's hope they never do. No body who hasn't been there understands. There is a fairly similar thread throughout the whole thing, there are a lot of variations and individualty of course, but as you start reading through you will find lots of helpful tips, tricks and coping ideas on the forum. There is so much information available here and most of the time it's far more useful than any doctor will tell you. They tend to leave out the emotional side of things. This forum is where you can come for that support.
It is a long road with a lot of mountains to climb but you will be ok. You will get it done and when you are finished, slowly, slowly the glimmers of light start to appear. All the best lovely.
xoxoxoxox