I don't know what I'm feeling
Hi I know I am extraordinarily lucky. My breast cancer was caught by my bi-annual mamagram thanks to BreastScreenSA. I have never been more tentative and scared while I did the whirlwind of a seconda...
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All your thoughts and feelings sound perfectly understandable to me.
My cancer was supposed to be simple too at first, but the actual fact that I had it knocked me sideways. It takes all your sense of security away, everything changes.
Having a serious disease will do that to you.
Some of the treatments are scarey and alien and you have to put your trust in people you don't know.
So yes, you will get all these feelings and emotions.
I panic about results, CT scans, MRI scans, get angry at just about every part of this process that has completely taken over my life for this whole year.
I don't want to be here, doing this!
I try to find positives and enjoy little pleasures where I can find them, but sometimes that is really hard.
If it gets out of hand and you don't feel you are coping, there is help available, I am using a psychologist at the Cancer Cantre near me and she has been very helpful in getting me through some of the more difficult aspects.
The breast cancer nurses are great too at helping with dealing with the processes, even just to reinforce that what you are going through is normal. I know I don't use mine enough.
I certainly hear your anger and frustration, feel free to let it out.
Jennie
My cancer was supposed to be simple too at first, but the actual fact that I had it knocked me sideways. It takes all your sense of security away, everything changes.
Having a serious disease will do that to you.
Some of the treatments are scarey and alien and you have to put your trust in people you don't know.
So yes, you will get all these feelings and emotions.
I panic about results, CT scans, MRI scans, get angry at just about every part of this process that has completely taken over my life for this whole year.
I don't want to be here, doing this!
I try to find positives and enjoy little pleasures where I can find them, but sometimes that is really hard.
If it gets out of hand and you don't feel you are coping, there is help available, I am using a psychologist at the Cancer Cantre near me and she has been very helpful in getting me through some of the more difficult aspects.
The breast cancer nurses are great too at helping with dealing with the processes, even just to reinforce that what you are going through is normal. I know I don't use mine enough.
I certainly hear your anger and frustration, feel free to let it out.
Jennie