This tuff cookie is crumbling
Hi I am 46 and diagnosed 2 weeks ago with invasive ductal carsonoma and DCIS on a routine mammogram. Met my surgeon on Friday and having surgery this Wednesday. He offered me a mastectomy but said I...
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Hi @Mel@Meliss
Welcome to the forum. As you can see already there is so much support, wisdom and warmth on here.
There's a lot of us tough cookies that crumbled a bit at the start (and every so often throughout) so don't worry about not being as tough as normal and put yourself first.
I had a lumpectomy, re excision for clearer margins. It was a combination of IDC and DCIS as well with L/node involvement so aux clearance also.
@Zoffiel is right. You do tend to deal with this as you do with everything else. Once you get over the initial shock that is. For me, when shit happens in my life, I renovate something! That's what I did the whole way through. Anything to distract my brain from itself and it's nasty habit of thinking the worst.
Waiting is the absolute pitts. Waiting for result, waiting for surgery, waiting for results, waiting for a plan and a bazillion hours waiting for doctors.
Keep talking on here. We all get it, and remember exactly how we felt when we were where you are now.
All the best lovely.
xoxoxo
Welcome to the forum. As you can see already there is so much support, wisdom and warmth on here.
There's a lot of us tough cookies that crumbled a bit at the start (and every so often throughout) so don't worry about not being as tough as normal and put yourself first.
I had a lumpectomy, re excision for clearer margins. It was a combination of IDC and DCIS as well with L/node involvement so aux clearance also.
@Zoffiel is right. You do tend to deal with this as you do with everything else. Once you get over the initial shock that is. For me, when shit happens in my life, I renovate something! That's what I did the whole way through. Anything to distract my brain from itself and it's nasty habit of thinking the worst.
Waiting is the absolute pitts. Waiting for result, waiting for surgery, waiting for results, waiting for a plan and a bazillion hours waiting for doctors.
Keep talking on here. We all get it, and remember exactly how we felt when we were where you are now.
All the best lovely.
xoxoxo