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Hi everyone :)
I am a 42 year old mum to 3 beautiful chdren.
After a dream telling me to have a mammogram early October I was diagnosed with multiple cancers in both breasts. I had a bilateral mastectomy on 17th November and a bilateral axillary clearance 1st December. I see my chemo oncologist for the first time on 4th January with Tac chemo due to start 6th January. I saw my radiation oncologist last week and will have radiation on my left chest wall and neck due to 6/21 nodes being affected.
I would love to hear of any hints or words of encouragement from those in any stage of the breast cancer journey. Chemo is the part of the journey that scares me the most.
Thanks
Melinda
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- Hi Chris. My daughter and I left the hospital and headed for a choccie fix at our local max brenners. Not long after I started to get some hot flushes and needed to buy a battery hand held fan on the spot. I had looked forward to cooking pork spare ribs all day but then the nausea set in so my 19yr old son took over. I didn't sleep at all the first night as I had an extremely fast heart beat that was difficult to deal with as well as dreadful heartburn, continuos hot flushes and the shivers. I read, watched DVDs and got through the night on Ginger beer and arrowroots. Was unable to sleep yesterday but felt good considering and had friends visit. As you can see from the time of this post I'm wide awake again but have managed to sleep about 5 hours. Hope you are well and thanks for your reply Mel xxx
- Hi Mel, I have just read all your blogs, and am wondering how the chemo is going? Hope you are not feeling too crook. Love Chris xx
