Why I'm not having breast reconstruction
It’s one week since I found out I need a mastectomy. It feels like a month!Last Wednesday when my surgeon explained that the pathology on the surgery I’d had the week before revealed invasive cancer,...
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Thanks Cis, I was starting to think I'd gone a bit crazy because I read and re-read the posts and couldn't see where anyone had called anyone else anything!
I work from a place where I assume that everyone is devastated by breast cancer and nobody is here to upset anyone else. I don't think there's any such thing as 'good' or 'better' breast cancers and comparing my own level of distress and my own choices to anyone else is pointless and potentially hurtful.
Having said that, if people have been offended I am the first to apologise, whether or not I intended to cause offence. I have done so.
From here on in I think I'll stick to my positive3negative facebook page and my blog. I've spent most of today just crying and being upset. Nobody needs this kind of attack, especially not a few days out from major surgery when I'm trying to get my head around losing my breasts. I also got a very sad message from Michelle C saying that not only had she been distressed by the reaction to her comments, but she'd also received some very nasty and threatening private messages.
What is wrong with people. Why is there so little tolerance and comapssion for others?