Newly Diagnosed 18/2/2020
Hi Everyone, my name is Lois and my life got bit of a shock last week when the doctor said "It is Aggressive, Invasive Breast Cancer". The emotions went into hyper drive and I left his room and prom...
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Hi @Lois_56, sorry you had to join us!
I agree that the worst part is telling your kids, it does take your breath away. Mine are young adults too. Their whole innocent world disappears.
BUT. I choose to just laugh at everything, I started with chemo, which certainly provided some weird symptoms to laugh at. Sometimes I think they look at me and think who is this madwoman living in our house?! We all have learnt to laugh at this, and this has got us through it, for me it’s the only way to keep going, one day at time.
I’m currently at week 3 of 5 weeks of radiotherapy. It’s quite doable. My boob is a little red but not too bad yet. Get yourself a big tube of Moogoo udder cream. Use it 3 to 4 times a day. You got this girlfriend xx
I agree that the worst part is telling your kids, it does take your breath away. Mine are young adults too. Their whole innocent world disappears.
BUT. I choose to just laugh at everything, I started with chemo, which certainly provided some weird symptoms to laugh at. Sometimes I think they look at me and think who is this madwoman living in our house?! We all have learnt to laugh at this, and this has got us through it, for me it’s the only way to keep going, one day at time.
I’m currently at week 3 of 5 weeks of radiotherapy. It’s quite doable. My boob is a little red but not too bad yet. Get yourself a big tube of Moogoo udder cream. Use it 3 to 4 times a day. You got this girlfriend xx