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Hi Emma

Like you I live in a wonderful country town where people will bring out cakes & dinner etc and as lovely as this has been, I know how you feel! Ive  always been extremely independant & fely slightly embarrassed about people helping me out...but as one friend explained, it is as much for themselves that they are helping out as it is for us...& I am learning to accept graciously! 

I too have young children & feel they should know what's going on with me...they have asked so many questions and I feel they are pretty knowledgeable on the subject now...in fact my 9 yr old son said yesterday that 6 weeks ago he didn't even know what BC was! 

It is a scary time for you and hard work keeping yourself positive let alone your lovely children too! But once your op is over you can move forward to treatment & count down to the finish line! 

I,ve gone through my first chemo (3 left) after mastectomy....another friend of mine ( BC survivor of 20 years) told me to draw an outline of myself, then get my kids to colour in a section after each chemo to show how far we are through....I thought this was a fab idea & we have an outline of "me" with quarter rainbow colours! My 11 year old daughter & I are sharing a journal to record our thoughts! Just some ideas which you might want to try too....

Good luck with your surgery & enjoy all your cakes, home baking etc from those who care & love you!

Oh.....and get used to your family commenting on how lovely the meals are....when they rarely comment on how much they love our cooking! Ha ha 

Jenny x