A tiny inflatable boat in a huge storm
Like many others, here I am joining this not-so-sought-after club- and feeling very much like a tiny inflatable boat in a stormy sea. I‘be just been diagnosed this week, although the process has be...
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My treatment had some similarities but surgery first, then chemo then herceptin. Pertumuzab wasn’t suggested, may be a newer discovery that the two work well together. I was hormone positive (well, one lymph node was) so I’m now in my eighth year of Letrozole. I wasn’t running my own business but found working perfectly doable - fatigue and nausea are the ones that often knock people out of work and I didn’t have either. As it’s impossible to tell until you start chemo, it’s plan A and plan B territory. My fundamental plan was simply to do what was recommended. Costs need to be considered of course but, if possible, knowing you have done all that you can, is a salve in itself. For me, so far, so good. I’ve retired (because I turned 75) and haven’t travelled as much in the last year as usual or as I’d like (but that’s COVID!). I changed jobs a year after diagnosis, but only only to do something entirely new and challenging. So keep looking forward, life post bc may change but the changes may also be positive ones. Best wishes.