My journey of B C
Hi everyone, I was formally diagnosed BC with multifocal invasive lobular carcinoma from biopsy 2 days before Christmas in 2016. I had lumpectomy and sentinel nodes biopsy 2 days before New Year. I...
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Thank you so much ladies for sharing information and your experiences .
What a brilliant idea to create a separate Facebook page to share with your friends for your special journey, Kath. And group email is a great idea as well, Karen. I have been sharing my journey with my nursing friends through messages. It can be tiring to reply everyone 's messages though. I really appreciate that they are all care about me. I am not going to hide my diagnosis to my colleagues. I would like to see more women to be more aware of BC. My anxiety is how I am going to cope mentally when so many of them ask me throughout the day at work. There are about 30 nurses in one shift. I currently still get emotional and my eyes get filled up with tears really quickly, when I tell someone that I had breast cancer.
I definitely will really appreciate when they ask me how I am going. I probably will feel a bit hurtful like Karen if some people don't ask me for whatever reason. I am going to have all these mixed feelings for sure. I think I am just going to concentrate on my patients. Thankfully my work is not so much demanding physically, besides just standing all day. But mentally can be stressful and challenging at times, looking after the sickest babies and stressed parents.
My unit manager is very supportive for me returning to work. I will gradually building my hours and drop from 12 hours to 8 a day. I will request no night shifts for a while as well.
Thank you ladies! Wishing you the best! Lots of love and hugs for you!
What a brilliant idea to create a separate Facebook page to share with your friends for your special journey, Kath. And group email is a great idea as well, Karen. I have been sharing my journey with my nursing friends through messages. It can be tiring to reply everyone 's messages though. I really appreciate that they are all care about me. I am not going to hide my diagnosis to my colleagues. I would like to see more women to be more aware of BC. My anxiety is how I am going to cope mentally when so many of them ask me throughout the day at work. There are about 30 nurses in one shift. I currently still get emotional and my eyes get filled up with tears really quickly, when I tell someone that I had breast cancer.
I definitely will really appreciate when they ask me how I am going. I probably will feel a bit hurtful like Karen if some people don't ask me for whatever reason. I am going to have all these mixed feelings for sure. I think I am just going to concentrate on my patients. Thankfully my work is not so much demanding physically, besides just standing all day. But mentally can be stressful and challenging at times, looking after the sickest babies and stressed parents.
My unit manager is very supportive for me returning to work. I will gradually building my hours and drop from 12 hours to 8 a day. I will request no night shifts for a while as well.
Thank you ladies! Wishing you the best! Lots of love and hugs for you!