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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!!!
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That is brilliant!! So happy for you xx
THAT IS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC.
CONGRATULATIONS and I hope you plan one heck of a memorable party to mark this ????????????
Jel
Woo hoo! That is fantastic news! Congratulations
Sending you a virtual hug. Take care
Christine xx
I saw my endocrinologist a week and a half ago and I no longer need to see him unless I develop diabetes or get put back on steroids full time. Yay. Today I saw my immunologist and I don't need to see him for 6 months. This is the longest I have gone without seeing him. It's been confirmed, my AIP is in remission. I am cancer free and in remission! Yep, I really am good! This means no more infusions for at least 7 months. I had bloods done today but will need no more of them for 7 months either. Yippee
So glad you actually mean it!
Nearly every day I lie too! My brother in law is the worst...he always says, you're good, you don't look sick, but you're good aren't you? Little does he know that I just dragged myself out of bed, challenged to get dressed and struggled to put a smile on my face for everyone else...
You have made an epic trek up that mountain, overcome so much, triumphed! so ,Get on atop that mountain and scream it LOUD!
All the best!
xx
Thanks everyone xox
Fabulous
I think that's awesome!
xxx
So great to hear you've turned a corner and can finally really feel good :-) I hope you feel that way for a long time to come. Jane xx
