27 recently Diagnosed
Hi Everyone I am Sydney based and i have just found out yesterday that i have stage 3 breast cancer ( its a hormonal one ) not sure the rest of the details yet ( or i cant remember at this point) ...
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@rella1 I’ve just sent her a message on insta so I’ll wait to hear back .. I don’t know her personally but a friend connected us because we’re in the same area, both nurses and same age at diagnosis 🤷🏻♀️ It’s spooky sometimes how it all happens.
Whilst I agree with don’t google I think there’s certain things you can google. Such as breast reconstruction options and fertility preservation... it will help you understand the lingo when you have these appointments. Do you know if you are having mastectomy or lumpectomy yet? Public vs private? I only ask this bcoz I used to work in Sydney as a nurse and just know a little bit about the systems which might help.
It’s really easy to feel very isolated and the waiting room stares from older women and men were honestly awful and I found myself resenting everyone in the room. And it’s so statistically unlikely to get it this young that you can feel like the whole world is against you. But once you see there are other youngens like me etc you begin to realise you didn’t do anything wrong to get BC. It just happened.
You sound like you’re managing it quite well. I hope your scans are clear 🙏🙏🙏