New Lady On Board

Hi @Shann welcome and you are on the best online site , very caring, lovely people who will give you advice any information you may need. They are awesome people

Hi @Shann welcome to the online network. If you would like to start a new conversation just click the big pink button "new discussion". That way more of the members will be able to say hello and answer any questions you may have.

Hi I am new and only diagnosed on Wednesday the 6 September 2017.

Thanks Barney , thanks for your kind words . We will all stay positive and I think the main thing is just knowing someone is out there and are caring and listening, just a hello means the world to me. Sharyn

Hi Sharon sorry to hear about your dignosis this group is famtasic lots of Advice and lots of lovely women to speak to all the best x o:)

Hi ladies l want to tell you lm 5 years post diagnosis and its do able. Life will never be the same and sometimes it controls you but you get through it. Good bad and better days is how ld describe it. Im a different person, l love the new me l found a new me.l think l will actualy never be cancer free but l will be free of cancer. Im living loving and breathing and thats the best. Adean

Thank you so much explaining and the links very handy and thoughtful of you

Welcome Sharon.
So do you have your pathology results?
There is a number of diffetent ways breast cancer is classified.
Stage...is size and mode inbolvement.
Grade is after pathology  and is how closely the cancer resembles the origibal cell it came from...so it csn mean how many times it has changed from when it mutated. 

I've  added some usefil links and bcna have a pathology download page which will help you understsnd more about your type of breast cancer.  Kath x

https://canceraustralia.gov.au/affected-cancer/cancer-types/breast-cancer/diagnosis/stages-breast-cancer

https://www.bcna.org.au/understanding-breast-cancer/types-of-breast-cancer/

Welcome Sharon. Did you have a mammogram, ultrasound and fine needle biopsy to diagnose? Next there will be a CT scan and a bone density scan. You get good at sitting in dr waiting rooms.

Hi @"Sharyn Sly" sorry to hear about your diagnosis. I wish you great strength of mind to deal with this, it does become a bit of a roller coaster. It all happens so quickly that it's difficult to absorb. For me I tried to keep exercising as I found it kept me sane and helped with recovery. It was hard sometimes but I used it as a way to focus and not think about bc constantly. 9 months post diagnosis I'm well cancer free and building up my exercise so feel like I have come through the other end and hope you will be in that position soon All the best lyn