Newly diagnosed - double mastectomy
Hello everyone, I'm new on here and sending hugs as we all need them <3. Firstly I am not great on computers but have read the helpful notes about posting so here goes. I had a recall from my mammo...
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Hi Ladies and thank you so much for your welcome and your responses which are really appreciated :) Have had a bit of a weepy weekend so your messages cheered me up and have given me strength. It is such an ordeal and the why me bit is hard but I suppose why not me when so many women are being diagnosed all the time. When the surgeon gave me the diagnosis I actually didn't believe him, terrible I know, and asked if he could print out the lab results so I could study them but not being a pathologist, I couldn't really make head of tail of them but googled a few words etc but I think this helped me to accept it because it I had something written on paper. Anyway I wanted to say to PV123 thanks for the information about the operation and the reality of drains, haematomas and seromas, it's really useful to know in advance what can happen and I hope you are recovering and are well. TonyaM thank you for sharing your experience and you are right it is a totally crap experience all round and getting rid of them suits me because I would be too scared of future test results, sending many hugs back x Sending all the very best to Caibo for your surgery this Tuesday, you are in very good hands by the sounds of it and are brave. It is not an easy decision to make. I'm going to have the reconstruction too, with the tissue expanders. It is a bit of a long road but I spend much time on the beach in the summer so it suits me to have this done. Let us know how you get on and what it's like, lots of hugs and keep strong as you will really be moving forward this week x Thank you Ahnn your experience does sound similar to mine and it is shocking when you go in for a routine mammogram and suddenly they identify cancer and it's all stations go and you think how awful this is then another part of you says thank godness they picked it up. I hope you are doing ok x
My father died from prostate cancer at 67 which was too young. My Mum and I nursed him for 5 years and it was so sad. I remember thinking at the time what a terrible disease cancer is. This diagnosis has brought it all back. I think that life can be like a battle sometimes. Be brave and that's all you can do. Love to all x <3
My father died from prostate cancer at 67 which was too young. My Mum and I nursed him for 5 years and it was so sad. I remember thinking at the time what a terrible disease cancer is. This diagnosis has brought it all back. I think that life can be like a battle sometimes. Be brave and that's all you can do. Love to all x <3