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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!!!