Unlucky?
I'm currently 6 months into my breast cancer journey and have finished chemo, just having started radiotherapy. I was diagnosed with a stage 2 invasive ductal breast carcinoma (3 tumors, skin and n...
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Hi NE,
I understand where you are coming from. My cancer was Stage 2A and I had tumours in my lymph nodes. It can be very isolating when you hear others comments about being lucky that they escaped something that you have/had. My feeling on this is that everyone is looking for a positive in their own cancer journey, hence the "I am lucky because...". So don't feel bad when you read these comments, it's just a form of personal therapy that people are using.
How are you going with your treatment? I had 6 months of chemo which I also found really tough, followed by 5 weeks of radiotherapy. I actually had radiotherapy using deep inspiration breathing to protect my heart, is this something that you have been offered? I found radiotherapy to be much easier than chemo. The main inconveniences were having to go every day, and my skin got fairly burnt and blistered afterwards but healed quickly.
Take care, Katie xo