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Dlhcba6
11 years agoMember
Hi Lee, I hope I qualify for this. I'm now 44, and it's been 14 months since diagnosis and surgery. Chemo finished Xmas eve 2013, radiation finished end feb 2014.
I have four kids under 11.
I'm not sure what I find most challenging? Keeping my kids lives normal is the hardest. I live in a rural area so my treatment has cost us massively in every way possible. $30000, 20000kms in my car plus fuel, reduced work for my husband to get me places...man I could go on.
On a brighter note, I cannot remember how foul I felt during my 18 weeks of chemo or post mastectomy. I hope that means my focus is on the future?
My current issue is that my implant, done straight after mastectomy has started to encapsulate. Side effects of radiation I wasn't having...but did. So now I have a lumpy, painful implant that apparently unless I pay for myself to have it changed, will annoy the crap out of me forever!
Good grief. :)
Lisa