Time to finish what has been started ...goodbye ovaries

Hey @fairydust, just sending you a big hug. Xx Cath

It's quite normal to feal scared that cancer could already be growing. We all get that. But at this time you have no reason to think that.  Keep talking yourself through those fears, normal yes, but think... I will finalise this part so I can get on with my life with much less fear. Hope all goes smoothly for you and ever so slowly  you will  think of yourself as a survivor. 

Energy levels will return. I started to feel better after about 7 weeks after chemo. I returned to work 4 hours a day 5 days a week.  I was exhausted at the end of the day.  I had become so unconditioned. I persisted. I started doing 10 minute walks extra. Then I'd walk in my meal breaks. 9 months on I am back to full time.  I haven't quite got back yet all my energy levels but I feel well enough for a full on days work. I still need more help at home. A cleaner weekly. Others cooking tea a couple days a week. Resting more. Exercise on weekends. You will get there. You just need time for your physical energy and mental energy to return. I can't stress enough how physical exercise, like short walks, can help that. I also had some counselling just before and after starting work to help me on the road to healing my mind...the most damaged part in this journey, as it can just rob us of joy in our life if we can't heal that also. 

Take care . Kath x

Totally understandable fear @fairydust....when my gyno called me with the path results, she said "are you sitting down?"...well, I freaked out....and then said "because you're going to want to open the most expensive champagne you've got...all clear"! They also did blood tests pre-op which identify any ovarian cancer markers and those were normal, so she said all along she wasn't really expecting anything nasty.  For me, it was a bolt out of the blue and something i wasn't expecting at all, and something I had done 3 weeks prior to my DIEP Recon! Recovery was fine, really....just felt (literally) like I'd been kicked in the guts :). xx

@Cate64 and @nikkid thanks for the reply. My gyno said that the ovaries was a fairly easy procedure. Compared to a hysterectomy she stated the recovery time was 2 weeks ? She prefers ladies to stay overnight but not mandatory. My fear is not the operation but discovering more problems. I miss my lost energy levels badly. Getting stronger but a long way to go.

@nikkid they made me stay overnight & I was not impressed, I didnt need to be there, I was taking up a bed someone else could have had. Its noisy all night & the food is crap I would have been much better going home & sleeping in my own bed.
Then............. I could have gone to parkrun on the Saturday morning... :)

@fairydust  I like nikkid feel no different in fact I feel relieved that there is no way now I can ever be diagnosed with ovarian cancer & I dont have to have the Zoladex implant each month to shut them down chemically... I couldnt wait to get them removed.

Hi @fairydust,  I was the same as @Cate64 - keyhole, day surgery....was driving on the Monday and definitely felt back to normal within a week. Had residual bruising but it was very low key. I don't feel any different either :)  x

@fairydust did they tell you 2 week recovery?? its keyhole surgery or, mine was & I had it done Friday & went back to work Tuesday, would have been Monday but my Dad's funeral was then.... Certainly didn't take 2 weeks to recover..

I wish you a speedier than 2 week recovery :)

I wish I had some words of wisdom, @fairydust. It's natural to be scared, but you'll get through it. Take it one step at a time. When are you have the ultrasound and blood test?