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Cook65
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9 years ago

I'm good thanks

Hi All, I hope everyone is travelling well.

Well. I've had an epiphany!!! I'm good thanks. For a long time when people asked me how I was I would always say good thanks regardless of how I was feeling.  But today I actually mean it. I'm feeling the best I have in a very, very long time. I have been ill with auto immune pancreatitis for 9 years and have not been stable in this time. When they finally started to stabilise my condition, I was diagnosed with breast cancer and could no longer take the medications I was on.  I completed my treatment for breast cancer in June last year and 12 months on, I can actually say that I'm good and mean it. Yes, I still get tired and yes, I still suffer the effects of chemo which will probably now be with me for the rest of my life but that's ok. I'm good thanks. For so long, I didn't think I would ever be out of the fog of treatments. Breast cancer treatment took it out of me. I didn't think I would ever be good again.  It has been a hard slog but I'm good.  It's a wonderful feeling. I will still have to have infusions on a roughly 6 monthly cycle to keep the AIP at bay but that's ok too because I'm good! In case you didn't get it, I feel like screaming from the mountain tops. I'm good!!!

18 Replies

  • Nice to be off the merry-go-round of multiple specialist appointments isn't it? Glad you are feeling better now.

  • Yay it is such a good feeling to actually feel good. I remember at Christmas I lost it because I kept telling people that I was good and I really wasn't coping. Having the meltdown was what I needed as I also needed to admit that I wasn't s well as I was telling everyone. I now feel I'm moving on with some help and I also feel better than I have for a while. Life keeps giving us crap to deal with and we have to keep putting one foot in front of the other. Life is good I'm happy you are feeling good xx. 

  • What a great feeling to be able to reply "good" and realize that you mean it!

    So much of our discourse is routine, but to stop, think, and still give that same reply??......it must be GOOD! Congratulations, it sounds like it was a long journey to get there.

    Jane

     

  • Really happy for you! After such a long time it must be just so wonderful! I hope it continues, you certainly deserve to feel good after everything you have been through. ??

    Deanne xxx

  • That is absolutely awsome and so happy for you

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    Jel

  • Good to hear and Good for you!!!!

    Very happy for you.

    Paula xxxxxxx :)