Ironic Musings & next steps
In my last post I forgot to mention a couple of experiences with GP enroute to my diagnosis. When she referred me to get a mammogram and ultrasound I asked about the mammo specifically because of my...
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You are all amazing and inspirational women. You are all on a challenging journey but clearly (like women and mothers tend to do) you just keep on keeping on. It is so encouraging to be embarking on such a difficult journey with people like you beside me. Right now I have every reason to hope for the best but until surgery and all those pathology results to follow I guess we just never really know. Strangely I am not currently looking at this diagnosis as anything particularly overwhelming; I guess it either hasn't hit me properly yet or I just view it as another hurdle / obstacle to overcome - past therapy for severe post natal depression and ongoing miracle medication no doubt providing assistance with that perspective ;-). I also feel that despite the diagnosis I won't really feel part of the "BC club" until I begin to experience the physical effects associated with the myriad of treatments that lay in store. Today I feel physically healthy and strong - will be cherishing this feeling over the next week or so until it all begins in earnest.
JODIE - you're just down the road, we will have to catch up in person once we're both settled in for the next stage of our respective journeys and things aren't so up in the air for both of us.
Sending you all a piece of my positive energy today; a fighting spirit and dogged determination.
Jules xx