What happens now I'm finished my treatment?
I have been through breast cancer for the last 8 months. I went on to have two surgeries. 12mm lump in my left breast and one lymph node had caught cancer. So all 26 on my left side were removed....
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Huge, huge congratulations on getting through treatment as well as you did with such troubles! You're a soldier!
It's a strange feeling isn't it. Out the door with no kind of closing 'well done' or anything that signaled that 'oh I can get on with my life now'.
I suppose they avoid it because nobody can usher a feeling of safety from recurrence, that's a huge personal hurdle.
At the end of my rads the supervisor had a chat with me that seemed very well practiced.
I imagine he has it with every patient.
He invited me to join the choir group because, he said "It can be lonely, after such intensive contact with all these people, to suddenly go off and heal by yourself"
Having a kind of 'floating' post-treatment withdrawal apparently isn't an unusual thing.
The best thing we can to for ourselves is - you know, dress for the job you want, call yourself a survivor and do the best you can to put it out of your mind.
I know that's a bit 'Don't think about pink elephants' but it's just one of those things, if it happens it happens, but there's a huge chance it won't, so why torture ourselves with the worry.
As for now what, you can always chill here and talk total nonsense with us lot until you chase that post-treatment blues away. We're rad, imo. :lol:
Have you considered attending an in-person support group near you? You don't have to need support, you don't even have to give it to others, it's just really comforting to be around people who at least in some way understand what you've been through and are going through now. :heart:
It's a strange feeling isn't it. Out the door with no kind of closing 'well done' or anything that signaled that 'oh I can get on with my life now'.
I suppose they avoid it because nobody can usher a feeling of safety from recurrence, that's a huge personal hurdle.
At the end of my rads the supervisor had a chat with me that seemed very well practiced.
I imagine he has it with every patient.
He invited me to join the choir group because, he said "It can be lonely, after such intensive contact with all these people, to suddenly go off and heal by yourself"
Having a kind of 'floating' post-treatment withdrawal apparently isn't an unusual thing.
The best thing we can to for ourselves is - you know, dress for the job you want, call yourself a survivor and do the best you can to put it out of your mind.
I know that's a bit 'Don't think about pink elephants' but it's just one of those things, if it happens it happens, but there's a huge chance it won't, so why torture ourselves with the worry.
As for now what, you can always chill here and talk total nonsense with us lot until you chase that post-treatment blues away. We're rad, imo. :lol:
Have you considered attending an in-person support group near you? You don't have to need support, you don't even have to give it to others, it's just really comforting to be around people who at least in some way understand what you've been through and are going through now. :heart: