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Hi Jo.

Doesn't it just suck!!!! But you are welcome to email me on angie842@gmail.com whenever you feel like it. Family and friends are invaluable but I am realising I need to talk to people that are going through the same thing....and because we have been diagnosed at the same sort of time...we can definitely understand eachother! xx

Hi Louise!

I live in Darch (just off Hepburn Rd). I am 39.....just a spring chicken haha!

Thankyou so much for all or your lovely comments. I am amazed at how I can have a quick little sob one minute and then back to laughing the next. I am hoping to have more of option b and less of option a generally!! I do feel a sense of relief that everyone I wanted to know....now knows. The repitition alone of constantly saying the same speech is exhausting....and also how strange it is to feel empathetic to how others react to the news! What a strange journey this already is. Also attemptoing to turn down the volume on the mountain of advice from emails to books that I have been sent. Especially the stuff about diet....because frankly today I have been fighting the urge to fully marinate in alcohol haha! I have loads of support but constantly worry because I live alone and have 2 young daughters to raise. When I pick a challenge I seem to do things to the extreme! Anyway, thankyou again and hopefully I will get to talk and meet some of you on here....because I am also a social little chick :) xxx

Oh Angiebelle, Happy birthday for 2 days ago. Some people are just drop kicks!, We can LIVE with breast cancer. Bad things might happen but if they are not happening today lets stop and ''smell the roses' and give our selves permission to have a good howl and then 5 minutes later find something to laugh about.

I'm still in the treatment option stage but a friend said how will your husband feel if you have a mastectomy? When I asked him he said wwwhat? so you think this will affect me more than you ??? It made me laugh. I'm really lucky to have him.

I hope you have at least one sane sensitive person in your life.

Big hugs , you are not alone.

Jen

Angiebelle,

I know how you're feeling. I was diagnosed last week as well. What a shock and so much information to absorb!

I'm trying to remember that I'm not alone and that the medical people all really know what they're doing.

All the best,

Jo

Hey Newbie, firstly happy birthday!!!    It is probably not going to be the best birthday you have ever had, but it's still nice to hear someone say it.     I have just reached my one year anniversary of being diagnosed with breast cancer.  I had six months chemo and six weeks radiotherapy and am starting to feel back to normal again.    I remember when I was first diagnosed and felt exactly the same way you are feeling today.    It is very lonely and other people, although they have good intentions, just sometimes say and do the wrong things!!!

You will get through this journey, with the help of us ladies on this site, and with the help and support of your friends and family.  You need to let the diagnosis sink in first and just feel any way you like.  Cry if you want to, scream, throw things, whatever you want.   It is a hard road ahead but so many of us have and still are on the same journey and you can get through it!!

I wish you all the best in your treatment and recovery and jump on here any time you are feeling down and we will do our best to bring you back up again xxx

Best wishes

Jo xxx

Hey Newbie, firstly happy birthday!!!    It is probably not going to be the best birthday you have ever had, but it's still nice to hear someone say it.     I have just reached my one year anniversary of being diagnosed with breast cancer.  I had six months chemo and six weeks radiotherapy and am starting to feel back to normal again.    I remember when I was first diagnosed and felt exactly the same way you are feeling today.    It is very lonely and other people, although they have good intentions, just sometimes say and do the wrong things!!!

You will get through this journey, with the help of us ladies on this site, and with the help and support of your friends and family.  You need to let the diagnosis sink in first and just feel any way you like.  Cry if you want to, scream, throw things, whatever you want.   It is a hard road ahead but so many of us have and still are on the same journey and you can get through it!!

I wish you all the best in your treatment and recovery and jump on here any time you are feeling down and we will do our best to bring you back up again xxx

Best wishes

Jo xxx