New to blogging, new to breast cancer

Hey Leanne

Welcome to this website and so sorry you have to be here. You have done a very smart thing though by putting up your post and asking for help and advice.

I agree totally with everything the girls have said above. I found sometimes I had to take it hour by hour and sometimes day by day. Also try and remember that the majority of side effects are only temporary and they will pass and mainly only short lived.

Ask for help when you need it and if you have people that are close to you who want to know what they can do to help then tell them that you would really love your floors vacuumed or mopped, the washing done, house dusted, lawns mowed - whatever it is that is troubling you that needs doing but you just aren't up for it.

Read all the posts relating on this website that relates to what you need to know about at the time. Ask away if there is something bothering you because we are all here to help. Cancer Council was a great help to me with various things they can offer.

With regards to finding someone going through the same treatment as you I really hope you get that wish. I found a most wonderful special friend through BCNA who will always be very close to my heart. Her and I were a huge support to each other emotionally the whole way through our journeys. We are both now post treatment but we are still the absolute best of friends. There is not a day goes by that we don't chat to each other either by SMS, email and occasionally phone calls. She lives in Sydney and I live in Perth. It just shows you that distance doesn't matter. She had a double mastectomy and I had a lumpectomy but it doesn't matter. We are different ages and our children are at different ages and stages in their lives but it doesn't matter. We both work in completely different lines of work but it doesn't matter. I have a husband and she has a fellow but they don't live together but again that doesn't matter. The thing that brought us together was BCNA and breast cancer but the thing that keeps us together now is that we each know what we have been through and that we are both survivors who found each other on our journey and have stayed together.

If you don't find that one special person at the end of the day it won't matter because you have found many special people here on BCNA who will support you through your whole journey and beyond and we can all be your special friends if you want.

Please hop on here and chat away to us whenever you wish as one of us if not all of us will be here for you.

I am wishing you strength and wellness as you continue on your journey with all it's up and downs.

Lots of love, Mich xoxo