Patience with 'New Normal'

I think Robyn is right when she says that we need to push ourselves a bit to recover to the best of our ability. How far you can go is dependent on lots of individual factors such as how much treatment you had and what lasting effects you have, your age and general health, and TIME. It does take time as well as effort to recover. I am now at the 14 month mark since finishing active treatment and still find some days are better than others. Fatigue and some physical limitations still impact my life but it keeps improving. I also had professional help with the physical recovery and found that an individualized recovery program helped enormously. I was shown the right way to strengthen and improve my flexibility for my situation. I think it helps to have goals that are realistic for your situation. Knowing that regular exercise can make a BIG difference to your chance of recurrence is really my biggest motivator. Also while in some ways I feel more fragile than before, in other ways I feel stronger because of what I went through. Right now I am contemplating my biggest challenge since BC. It is something I never would have contemplated before BC - a 19 day trek to Base Camp at Mt Everest. I still have a little more research to do but just the fact that I (and my family) think that I might be able to do this is pretty amazing. It also helps me to know that I would be raising money to help find a cure for BC if I do this (it is part of a Qld Cancer Council challenge). So, just keep putting one foot in front of the other, like Rowdy says. You never know where you might find yourself in a few more months! Deanne xxx