Survivor mode
Hi there, I have been recently diagnosed with bc and am still undergoing all the biopsies, CT Scan and Bone Scan - had this today, the rest on Thursday. I am guessing this will inform the surgeon...
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Hi @Quote_Queen_67,
Welcome to the forum lovely.
As you can see there is always a lot of warmth and great information on here. No one else knows what it's like unless you've been there.
The waiting just stinks. Getting through those foggy days of waiting for answers and some kind of plan is the absolute pitts. I remember waiting for my CT results. That was the worst one, I was too scared to go back in and find out so I got my husband to ring first and sus it out before I went. :)
There is no right or wrong way to get through this. You just do what you can day by day, hour by hour. Emotions swing from "yeah, I got this thing" to cloudy fog of doom which is why we call it the roller coaster and it's all perfectly normal.
Whatever way you tackle it is ok. Distraction can work wonders. Just keep busy, anything to stop overthinking.
I agree with @Zoffiel about waiting until you have some answers before you tell work if you can. I took three months off but I already had a month off planned before I found out so I just extended it because I could. I went back two weeks after my second chemo.
I remember being told at the start to pretty much write off the next 12 months of my life. What a load of baloney. I worked part time, ran my farm, went camping, rode my horse, partied in the bar with the cowboys, renovated etc etc etc.
Some days were pretty average but there was a hell of a lot that weren't. Plenty of people choose to work for financial reasons or purely because it makes you feel normal.
Everybody responds to treatment differently and what they tell you at the start can scare the heck out of you and be nowhere near what actually happens.
Stay in touch lovely.
xoxoxo
Welcome to the forum lovely.
As you can see there is always a lot of warmth and great information on here. No one else knows what it's like unless you've been there.
The waiting just stinks. Getting through those foggy days of waiting for answers and some kind of plan is the absolute pitts. I remember waiting for my CT results. That was the worst one, I was too scared to go back in and find out so I got my husband to ring first and sus it out before I went. :)
There is no right or wrong way to get through this. You just do what you can day by day, hour by hour. Emotions swing from "yeah, I got this thing" to cloudy fog of doom which is why we call it the roller coaster and it's all perfectly normal.
Whatever way you tackle it is ok. Distraction can work wonders. Just keep busy, anything to stop overthinking.
I agree with @Zoffiel about waiting until you have some answers before you tell work if you can. I took three months off but I already had a month off planned before I found out so I just extended it because I could. I went back two weeks after my second chemo.
I remember being told at the start to pretty much write off the next 12 months of my life. What a load of baloney. I worked part time, ran my farm, went camping, rode my horse, partied in the bar with the cowboys, renovated etc etc etc.
Some days were pretty average but there was a hell of a lot that weren't. Plenty of people choose to work for financial reasons or purely because it makes you feel normal.
Everybody responds to treatment differently and what they tell you at the start can scare the heck out of you and be nowhere near what actually happens.
Stay in touch lovely.
xoxoxo