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Mez_BCNA
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3 years ago

Newly diagnosed nurse

@MaryMac57 original post moved by moderator from the 'Welcome New Members' discussion to 'Newly diagnosed' category:


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    MaryMac57
    Member
    3 years ago
    Thanks to you lovely women for your support. It felt really “daggy” posting earlier today but I feel really blessed and supported just by the 3 comments. Thank you again.
    All the treatment still does feel so weird and yet today after discharge from hospital (again) with complications from my chemo over a week ago, I have agreed to keep going with 3rd and 4th cycles. Somehow I feel up for it and know that what is being offered is so precious in giving me the best chance to live to a happy old age. Also getting some amazing insights about being “the patient”!!!
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    Julez1958
    Member
    3 years ago
    Hi @MaryMac57
    Being a health professional gives the whole thing another dimension that’s for sure - I am not one but did do a lot of reading ( I nckudingvtgis sure which is very useful) on receiving my diagnosis ( grade 2 stage 2 ER positive lobular cancer - mastectomy , radiotherapy , hormone therapy and reconstruction - age 62 on diagnosis , now 64).
    I did read the blog and book by Dr Liz O’Riordan , a UK breast cancer surgeon who was diagnosed with breast cancer , and found it really helpful .
    Also in the “ announcements” up the top of the page you will see a series of podcasts by Dr Charlotte Tottman , a psychologist who specialises in cancer related distress who also “joined the club”.
    With 1 in 8 women in Australia being diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime there are plenty of medical professionals who will have this experience unfortunately.
    Anyway ,I hope you have as good an experience as you can with your treatment and recovery and you can post anything here - we all “ get it”.
    Take care 🌺
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    AllyJay
    Member
    3 years ago
    Hi there @MaryMac57 I'm sorry you've had to join our rather motley crew. We're both around the same age (me born 1958), and I received my treatment at a large Sydney hospital.4 X AC chemo followed by 12 X Paclitaxel and Herceptin for a year. Now on letrozole. Diagnosed in 2016 and finished the chemo and surgery mid 2017 (herceptin towards the end of 2017. Still NED so "Up your's" to the Cosmic Clowns who did their best to knock me off my perch. I hope the rest of your treatment goes well and that you find our group supportive to you. It must be a mixed blessing to have 'inside knowledge' about cancer, but we've all become quite knowledgeable ourselves and I think we have a few members from the other side of the hospital bed too. Ally.