Round 3 tomorrow
I was really looking forward to my third week post 2nd round chemo. I feel good physically and enjoying walking, swimming, photography and getting out of the house but I am struggling emotionally. ...
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All you can do Joy is to do what we all did, count down the days. Having the PICC will be much better, my veins are stuffed... unable to use left arm cos of mastectomy and lymphodema and all the treatment in the right have killed off pretty much all of the normally easily accessible ones.
I think a port is defintely the way to go, 10 years ago it wasnt offered as much.
I am going to attend the BCNA Hobart Forum tomorrow, 10 of us are leaving Launceston at 7am to travel the 2+hrs to the Forum and planning to leave for the return trip home at 4pm. It will be a long day but we are all "pumped" to know we will be surrounded by others in the same situation, whatever their story is. I feel it is necessary to say to newly disgnosed women "Hey, look at me, 10 years on", and there are others who have been around a lot longer than me.
Some of our fellow travellers are mid treatment, but want to attend the event and gain knowledge and therefore be empowered, as well as link up.
Think of us, I will think of you, take special care, Mandy