telling people

I second everything that the other ladies have said.  I also found myself comforting others a lot at the start and it was really weird, as I was the one who had been given the shattering news that I have breast cancer.  You will also have to be ready to put up with well-meaning friends saying 'You'll be fine!" For the want of anything else to say, and you will have to bite your tongue and not tell them that no one yet knows how you go, as you know they are your friends and just trying to comfort you!