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sandyb
Member
14 years ago

Nearing the end

Hi to all, it has been awhile since i last was here and i expect there are lots of new ladies who have joined our journey since last time i posted hello and my best wishes to you all.

I am now half way through my radiation and slowly my hair is starting to regrow seems funny now to see myself with hair.. after all the time it took to get use to no hair lol.

Am startimg to plan for the future which up until a couple of weeks ago i would not even think about. At the end of radiation i am off to Melbourne to visit my sister.. not quiet the holiday in Phuket that i had planned before this all started but at least it will be a change of scene for awhile.

My good piece of news is that my partner and i are getting married next March... a year after my first op, then i am off on that trip to Phuket can't wait.

Anyway hope you are all doing ok and that there is light at the end of your tunnels just like there is mine.

Cheers SandyX

  • Leonie_Moore's avatar
    Leonie_Moore
    Member
    14 years ago

    Congratulations on your upcoming wedding.  My now husband and I did the same.  We had been together for 9 years when I was first diagosed in October 2006.  We married in a fabulous ceremony which included all of our families - one year after my diagnosis.  We set a plan to "do something" each year at that time.  That went well for the first couple of years then last December (4 years after first diagnosis) I was re-diagnosed.  We still will be doing something each October to celebrate our wedding anniversary.  I say there is always something good comes out of bad!!!! Good luck with the rest of your treatment. XLeonie

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    Debbie_J
    Member
    14 years ago

    Leonie,

     Did the cancer come back in the same breast or was it the other?. Thinking about having my other breast off. Deb

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    Leonie_Moore
    Member
    14 years ago

    Bc came back in the same side - wasn't actually in the breast but right up behind my arm in a lymph node. My suegeon says that it is a secondary in my lymph nodes but I think that I was just unlucky and this node wasn't detected and treated at the first diagnosis.  Maybe if I had had chemo back in 2006/2007 this node may have been "zapped".  Nothing pointed to me needing chemo at that time though so why fix something that isn't broken (even if we couldn't see that maybe something was "broken").  "It is how it is so get on with it" is the only way to go.  At the time of my first diagnosis my then surgeon stated that I was at high risk of getting a recurrance in the other breast.  I have recently questioned this with my Medical Oncologist who said that this is not necessarily the case.  I AM FREE OF CANCER AND I DON'T HAVE A RECURRENCE!!!!!!!!! (My affirmation and I'm sticking with it)XLeonie