This can't be happening to me!!!
Hi to all you amazing people, my name is Kerry and 2 weeks ago today I was diagnosed with BC. I've been hoping that this is a really bad dream but alas it isn't. I have kept working but every day has ...
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Hi @Kerry66, and welcome. It does all seem like a bad dream and unfortunately I don't think that many of us have been lucky enough to go through testing and find out that it has been a near miss. I had a week and a half between my mammogram and being called back by breastscreen. Then another week waiting on results, then a week and a half to see my GP for a referral, and 1/2 a week to see surgeon.Then a four week wait for surgery. I had the support of my colleagues at work who found out the same day I did as they knew I was waiting on results and phoned me while I was still at breastscreen getting the results. I decided that I was going to look on the bright side and portray a happy outlook and recognise that I was lucky I had been diagnosed early. That however certainly didn't stop the fear, both of the unknown and for what I was going to go through. So please realise that it is totally okay to be scared stupid, to have a good cry, to be totally cheesed off. You are doing one of the hardest things at the moment and that is waiting. It does get easier as you go. On the day of my surgery I woke at 2am with a headripping migraine. I was lying on the operating table waiting for the surgeon to scrub in and decided to close my eyes to try and ease the migraine - and I fell asleep!!! They hadn't given me any medication yet, I was just so exhausted and realised that I was in fantastic hands, that when I woke up I was going to be hopefully cancer free and that was enough. To think there was nothing more that I could do at that point and just go with the flow.
I hope you can sleep (depending on how long until your surgery) you might ask your gp for a sleeping pill to assist you, at least then you will get some sleep.
We are all here for you, we understand your fears, the highs and lows that you are experiencing and are sending you virtual hugs and hand holding to help you through. Come on here and vent, voice your fears, get support from us.
Big hug to you and wishing you all the best. Xx Cath
I hope you can sleep (depending on how long until your surgery) you might ask your gp for a sleeping pill to assist you, at least then you will get some sleep.
We are all here for you, we understand your fears, the highs and lows that you are experiencing and are sending you virtual hugs and hand holding to help you through. Come on here and vent, voice your fears, get support from us.
Big hug to you and wishing you all the best. Xx Cath