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primek
7 years agoMember
Well i had an aggressive grade 3 Her2 Es+ bc with a ki67 rate of 69. Pretty darn scary. My mammogram weeks before was clear. I've chosen to never reread my pathology now or over analyse every part. We've done all we can. The cancer is now gone. We are on appropriate treatment to reduce recurrence. Thats about all we can do.
I chose a bilateral mastectomy due to family history and breast density. I am well aware though that a new primary in the other breast can be a completely different type of breast cancer and not necessarily the same.
So I guess it's now about the head games. If you want the other off do so with reconstruction. Meanwhile the time now is to switch your brain to thinking of yourself as a woman who HAD breast cancer and now is a SURVIVOR. Simple language change in how we think and speak really starts to help us believe.
I recall my first exam after treatment. It was the first time where they really felt out my nodes along neck and collarbone etc. It was confronting. As the appointments get further apart it gets more unsettling too...again more adjustment...and belief of being one of the many still here thanks to modern medicine.
As time passes you'll start to focus on the living again and the daily struggles of normal life rather than only thinking about what if. It will happen but you are the one in the drivers seat steering your thoughts...so it's up to you if you take the freeway to get their or keep detouring along the way. Take care. Kath x
I chose a bilateral mastectomy due to family history and breast density. I am well aware though that a new primary in the other breast can be a completely different type of breast cancer and not necessarily the same.
So I guess it's now about the head games. If you want the other off do so with reconstruction. Meanwhile the time now is to switch your brain to thinking of yourself as a woman who HAD breast cancer and now is a SURVIVOR. Simple language change in how we think and speak really starts to help us believe.
I recall my first exam after treatment. It was the first time where they really felt out my nodes along neck and collarbone etc. It was confronting. As the appointments get further apart it gets more unsettling too...again more adjustment...and belief of being one of the many still here thanks to modern medicine.
As time passes you'll start to focus on the living again and the daily struggles of normal life rather than only thinking about what if. It will happen but you are the one in the drivers seat steering your thoughts...so it's up to you if you take the freeway to get their or keep detouring along the way. Take care. Kath x