Time to introduce myself
Firstly may I say that all of you ladies are amazing! I joined the network not long after my diagnosis and found your posts so supportive, inspirational and informative.
So I thought it was t...
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Hi Amanda
I am having my treatment at the Freemasons in East Melb. I have lobular, stage 3 with 3 nodes positive. After chemo I will need to take hormones - tamoxifen has been mentioned but my oncologist will go into this more at our next meeting.
Between breast surgeon, plastic surgeon, oncologist, breast care nurse and oncology nurses my head is spinning. I take my husband and mum (retired nurse) to most of my appointments as many times I am still trying to process what has just been explained but they have moved on to the next thing. Talk about information overload. I am usually so on the ball and retain new info easily but in this situation things can be very hard to process.
I got my wig in Ringwood too. I was told by 3 different sources that it was the best place to go. I took a friend and my hairdresser and I think I tried on nearly every wig there. I'm also slowly building up a collection of hats - I guess that's the good thing about having treatment in winter. I also bought a hair halo to wear under my hats so it looks like I have a bit of hair at the back. Not sure how this will go but it didn't cost much.
Do you sleep in a hat? It's getting quite chilly at night now. I think I will need one.
Happy Mothers Day
Ann-Marie