Not just BC
Hi all, When I was first diagnosed with BC last October, I made the decision to look for the smallest silver linings in each day to help me get through the overwhelming challenges I have to face in 2...
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Hello @Silverlining
When I was diagnosed I had one daughter who had just started Uni and another who had suffered all her life from crippling anxiety (she completed school through distance ed also). There were lots of issues in addition to this too! It was overwheming if I thought about ‘everything’ and how we would all get through it.
But the advice I received from others on here was to take it one step at a time. Just breathe, they said, and do what you have to do to get through the next day or even just the next hour sometimes. When you think about it that is all you CAN do. One step, one hour, one day, one week, one chemo, one radiation treatment at a time.
I had a mastectomy, 6 months chemo and then radiation. It was difficult. In the last week of radio we even moved house. But one way or another it all got done, maybe not how I would have preferred but we all made it through, helping each other. I learned to let others help. My daughter who had such terrible anxiety came through with flying colours. Afterwards she was incredibly helpful during my recovery. Both my daughters are doing really well now and I think our experience has actually helped them to get to where they are now.
That was 5 years ago. I am well, still on hormone treatment, and life is pretty good most of the time. I could never have imagined how different (and in many ways, actually better) life is now. Even now I try to remember that whenever life throws up a challenge, just breathe, and do what you need to do one step at a time. It really is all that you can do and it will get you through everything. When you don’t know what will happen, just do the best you can for RIGHT NOW. And when you need to, come on here and let us help.
Take care.
Deanne xxx
When I was diagnosed I had one daughter who had just started Uni and another who had suffered all her life from crippling anxiety (she completed school through distance ed also). There were lots of issues in addition to this too! It was overwheming if I thought about ‘everything’ and how we would all get through it.
But the advice I received from others on here was to take it one step at a time. Just breathe, they said, and do what you have to do to get through the next day or even just the next hour sometimes. When you think about it that is all you CAN do. One step, one hour, one day, one week, one chemo, one radiation treatment at a time.
I had a mastectomy, 6 months chemo and then radiation. It was difficult. In the last week of radio we even moved house. But one way or another it all got done, maybe not how I would have preferred but we all made it through, helping each other. I learned to let others help. My daughter who had such terrible anxiety came through with flying colours. Afterwards she was incredibly helpful during my recovery. Both my daughters are doing really well now and I think our experience has actually helped them to get to where they are now.
That was 5 years ago. I am well, still on hormone treatment, and life is pretty good most of the time. I could never have imagined how different (and in many ways, actually better) life is now. Even now I try to remember that whenever life throws up a challenge, just breathe, and do what you need to do one step at a time. It really is all that you can do and it will get you through everything. When you don’t know what will happen, just do the best you can for RIGHT NOW. And when you need to, come on here and let us help.
Take care.
Deanne xxx