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Just need to talk to someone
I’m 59yo and newly diagnosed with breast cancer. I’m really not sure I get what is going on either because I’m just slow or it’s just not all clear yet so I feel confused, in total panic and th...
I guess that on an intellectual level I understand that there is a reason to cut out a cancer but emotionally the conversation “hello, you’ve got cancer and I’m going to chop off your breast…”. It feels like the dark ages of medicine when the only option is to reach for a knife and hack away 😳 we are being forced to mutilate our bodies and I don’t know how to come to terms with that 😢
I really hope that a day comes in the future when women can be told they have cancer and there are choices other than mastectomy.
i know it has to be done and i will get brave like so many others before me but for me it is a struggle right now