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lrb_03
7 years agoMember
Hi @CGuy16 , and welcome to the club that none of us volunteered to join. Here you'll find a bunch of supportive women and men, always willing to listen and help.
I think you'll find we've all felt something similar when we come to the end of active treatment, be that surgery only, as in your case, or the trifecta of treatment as in other situations. No matter which end of the spectrum, you've still heard a form of the words "you have cancer". Your world has been turned on end physically and emotionally, and your focus for recent months has just been to get through, and now, suddenly, treatment is over. There's no comparing one person's path as harder than another, it's just what we've each had to do to give ourselves the best chance of long term survival. Your "flat" feeling is not uncommon. Give yourself time to heal physically. The emotional scars will take a little longer.
There is always friendship and support here, and there is also the BCNA helpline, whose number, of course, escapes me
I think you'll find we've all felt something similar when we come to the end of active treatment, be that surgery only, as in your case, or the trifecta of treatment as in other situations. No matter which end of the spectrum, you've still heard a form of the words "you have cancer". Your world has been turned on end physically and emotionally, and your focus for recent months has just been to get through, and now, suddenly, treatment is over. There's no comparing one person's path as harder than another, it's just what we've each had to do to give ourselves the best chance of long term survival. Your "flat" feeling is not uncommon. Give yourself time to heal physically. The emotional scars will take a little longer.
There is always friendship and support here, and there is also the BCNA helpline, whose number, of course, escapes me