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Lara_O_Perth
13 years agoMember
No tumours found elsewhere in my body on the CT scans and Bone scan.Yay Yay Yay!!!!I know you all know this already but until you experience it you don't really get it as to how much this IS really a rollercoaster for your emotions! (complete with rollercoater nausea too)I am seeing an Oncologist on the 29th and another on the 30th, they are both meant to be fantastic but given I will be seeing so much of them I wanted to be sure they suited me. I found my surgeon didn't think all my questions were neccessary but for me they are extremely important so I want to feel like can always ask questions and time will be taken to answer them. My surgeon said "Lara you really need to see a clinical Psych, its not good for you to ask so many questions". I am happy to see a Clinical Psych but I strongly disagree that asking questions is not good for me!!I guess I am the "annoying patient who is a nurse and asks loads more questions than anyone else". In the nursing world, nurses generally try not to tell the Drs who treat us that we are nurses because their attitude often changes when they find out we are a nurse, and usually not in a helpful way. But I don't care, its my life and as Bel said above, (thanks Bel) the answers give me relief, even if they are not the answers I want to hear it is still far better than what my head thinks the answers could be at 2am. Thanks yet again for all your wonderful support and good advice. I am seeing a Breast Care Nurse on Friday just as you recommended Bel and as soon as I was diagnosed my husband went and bought us a journal each to write it all down, (he really surprised me), also as Bel recommended.My next fear is the aggressive chemo I am bound to get given my pathology. I am mainly scared of the brain effects, as I have seen some people really freak out having high dose chemo (this is the stuff I wish I didn't know)!!If I had my way I would say "stick me on a bed somewhere, sedate me for a year and wake me when its all over.....ahh!! my imaginary perfect world!! Clearly this ain't gonna happen.Any advice for a Chemo virgin??Love to allLaraxx