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Not the midlife crisis I was planning on...
A few months ago I realised that my 40th birthday was looming and becoming harder to ignore. Mild panic started setting in - what have I done with my life? I'm running out of time to have a second ch...
Hi Imo, I can relate so well to everything you're saying (except hankering for the acreage - I'd gladly give that up for town life!). I'm older than you but still have kids doing their growing up and I don't want to leave them early. All I can say is, let the lovely ladies here support you with their experience, let your family and friends support you with their love, and try to take one day at a time even when you feel you can't breathe for the panic. I say that as an old hand of exactly one week since diagnosis! In a minute, I'll probably be in a puddle of emotion. But I've taken on board the advice that women on this site have given me.