New diagnosis, have had mastectomy
Hi All I was diagnosed with breast cancer on 24 August. Core Biopsy and FNA showed that I had cancer in the tumour, in the milk ducts and lymph nodes. I freaked out at that but saw surgeon 24 hours l...
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Thanks @Onemargie, I've read some of your other posts and noticed that our diagnosis are similar, other than node involvement.
I'm almost 4 weeks post surgery for right mastectomy. It's still quite sore (not sure if that's normal) but am getting some physio tomorrow so hopefully that will help. The thought of recon scares me a bit but in my head im thinking I'll take the left one off as well at the same time. I'm a single Mum to 9, 11 and 16 year olds and I don't want to always be wondering and scared.
I've already had several people tell me how I should be thinking or feeling and it has pissed me off a bit. I'd like to think I am fairly resilient and strong - my second child was still born and then I had a cheating husband and a messy, nasty divorce - I survived that and I can survive this, and I don't need people to tell me how to feel or act because they have a friend if a friend of a friend who had breast cancer.
My past experience losing my son cleared out all of those friends that couldn't cope with unpleasantness so I am lucky that I am surrounded by supportive friends and family. Having said that - I have no parents - my Mum died 4 years ago from early onset Alzheimers - and no partner means that I do feel incredibly alone through this, but this forum has been very helpful.
I start 4 rounds of AC dose dense chemo in 15 Oct. Not sure about the 2nd part but seems most on here have 12 weeks of paclitaxol if they have node involvement.
I have got lots of comfort from reading your posts on here and hope that I can offer the same comfort to others here in years to come.
I'm almost 4 weeks post surgery for right mastectomy. It's still quite sore (not sure if that's normal) but am getting some physio tomorrow so hopefully that will help. The thought of recon scares me a bit but in my head im thinking I'll take the left one off as well at the same time. I'm a single Mum to 9, 11 and 16 year olds and I don't want to always be wondering and scared.
I've already had several people tell me how I should be thinking or feeling and it has pissed me off a bit. I'd like to think I am fairly resilient and strong - my second child was still born and then I had a cheating husband and a messy, nasty divorce - I survived that and I can survive this, and I don't need people to tell me how to feel or act because they have a friend if a friend of a friend who had breast cancer.
My past experience losing my son cleared out all of those friends that couldn't cope with unpleasantness so I am lucky that I am surrounded by supportive friends and family. Having said that - I have no parents - my Mum died 4 years ago from early onset Alzheimers - and no partner means that I do feel incredibly alone through this, but this forum has been very helpful.
I start 4 rounds of AC dose dense chemo in 15 Oct. Not sure about the 2nd part but seems most on here have 12 weeks of paclitaxol if they have node involvement.
I have got lots of comfort from reading your posts on here and hope that I can offer the same comfort to others here in years to come.