New Diagnosis - Should I be more emotional??

Hi @Mals!

Everyone reacts in their own way. For me, information is the fear-killer; I read everything they gave me at diagnosis, spent time digging through Counterpart Navigator, went researching through BCNA, Cancer Council sites etc - anywhere I could find solid information.

I've had emotional moments (a.k.a. crying jags) at odd moments, but they've usually been about some specific thing or part of the process, like a fairly unfortunately comment from a surgeon about 'needing to consider taxpayer dollars' (I'm a public patient), or the horrible silence from a breast care nurse after I told her my bra size for the My Care pack and she had to retract the 'every woman with BC gets a post-surgery bra' because they only go up to a certain size, and I'm not in that range.

You're a long way from being the odd one out, in other words. Whatever works for you getting through it is what works for you, it's that simple.  You might have emotional moments or days down the track, you might not. As long as you have the support you need when you need it, that's what counts - there's no wrong way of reacting.

(@Hatter74, I love the 'side quest' thinking - I play a bit too, mostly MMOs, and that's appealing. It's not the whole of my life, just something that has to be dealt with.)