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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....
It is a bit disconcerting. I remember standing in the rain in the car park after my last rad treatment feeling like I'd spent six months in an industrial tumble drier. I must have looked a sight; bald, fried, disheveled and actually panting with stress thinking 'That's it? That's really it?'
Of course it wasn't really 'it' , there where odds and ends to tidy up and I'm still fine tuning myself on the road to recovery. I do feel strangely disconnected from my life and that feeling of being spat out lingers but hey, compared to the first six months of the year, things are fine. Try not to get too wound up about future tests and scans, I think we just have to trust our intuition with that. I figure I knew when something was wrong before, I'll know if things go shit shaped again in the future.
Get out there and get into it, Julie. Putting this all in a box and chucking it overboard isn't that easy, but keeping busy and looking forward helps. Marg xxx
Of course it wasn't really 'it' , there where odds and ends to tidy up and I'm still fine tuning myself on the road to recovery. I do feel strangely disconnected from my life and that feeling of being spat out lingers but hey, compared to the first six months of the year, things are fine. Try not to get too wound up about future tests and scans, I think we just have to trust our intuition with that. I figure I knew when something was wrong before, I'll know if things go shit shaped again in the future.
Get out there and get into it, Julie. Putting this all in a box and chucking it overboard isn't that easy, but keeping busy and looking forward helps. Marg xxx