So Sad
Yep I have cancer too. Great! Don't know how to use this website, I don't have time for this. I find myself sitting here. Been crying for a couple of hours now. I shouldn't be because they are s...
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Oh it's like reading my own writing! So if it's any comfort @Melony, you're very normal! I was diagnosed in December from a routine mammogram, no pain or lumps. At first I was insanely angry, and then a few weeks later a hot wet mess. SO many tears. I had weird arm and back sensations from the wide local excision and the sentinel node biopsy. It can take a few months to settle down.
Once you have a treatment plan it gets better. Waiting for results is the absolute worst, once you know what's going on it gets better. I had chemotherapy and had a massive panic attack before the first one. It was fear of the unknown. Once it got under way I was OK and while it is in no parts fun, I got through it.
My life has been on hold for over five months now. It is depressing, but it's what we have to do to hopefully get through and get healthy. I'm having a bi-lateral mastectomy and reconstruction next Friday and am filling my days with organisation to distract myself.
Have you got good support at home? Someone to come with you to these early appointments? It's a very steep learning curve and it can be good to have another set of ears. My husband had to be away for work a lot at the beginning and so I often took a close friend. It was really useful.
The women above have given you some great advice. Hang in there. You're not alone, be kind to yourself and accept all offers of help (I find that particularly hard!). Breathe. K xox
Once you have a treatment plan it gets better. Waiting for results is the absolute worst, once you know what's going on it gets better. I had chemotherapy and had a massive panic attack before the first one. It was fear of the unknown. Once it got under way I was OK and while it is in no parts fun, I got through it.
My life has been on hold for over five months now. It is depressing, but it's what we have to do to hopefully get through and get healthy. I'm having a bi-lateral mastectomy and reconstruction next Friday and am filling my days with organisation to distract myself.
Have you got good support at home? Someone to come with you to these early appointments? It's a very steep learning curve and it can be good to have another set of ears. My husband had to be away for work a lot at the beginning and so I often took a close friend. It was really useful.
The women above have given you some great advice. Hang in there. You're not alone, be kind to yourself and accept all offers of help (I find that particularly hard!). Breathe. K xox