kezmusc
8 years agoMember
One year today since diagnosis. Reflections and what do I do now.
Hello lovelies. I woke this morning to realise that it is one year today since my BC diagnosis. My goodnes, how time flies. Although sometimes this trip feels like it never ends. Yep, one whole year since that dreaded pathology result said "highly suspicious for metastatic breast cancer".
I remember the feeling of waiting for all the final results so i knew what I was dealing with. Felt like an eternity (which I am sure is a familiar feeling to everybody). Still gives me shivers thinking about it.
The short version of the last year is. Final diagnosis was stage 2 ER+/PR+ HER2 neg. 19mm breast tumour (which was an absolute bugger to find) and 25mm lymph node tumour with 5/24 LN involvement.
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So 12 months since D Day, 11 months since surgery, 4 months since final chemo and 2 months since last radiation. 6 weeks on Tamoxifen. Wow, where did that year go?
After all that I am still waiting on yet another set of results from my 12mth scans. With the long weekend in the middle I guess I'll be waiting for a few more anxious days.
I thank my lucky stars I found that lump under my arm when I did. I feel incredibly lucky that I have come out of it with very minimal side effects and my life is bsically the same as before, but I have this constant restless feeling that I should be doing something different, something more.
Wondering if others have just picked up where they left off or changed things in their lives a little or a lot?
I remember the feeling of waiting for all the final results so i knew what I was dealing with. Felt like an eternity (which I am sure is a familiar feeling to everybody). Still gives me shivers thinking about it.
The short version of the last year is. Final diagnosis was stage 2 ER+/PR+ HER2 neg. 19mm breast tumour (which was an absolute bugger to find) and 25mm lymph node tumour with 5/24 LN involvement.
.
So 12 months since D Day, 11 months since surgery, 4 months since final chemo and 2 months since last radiation. 6 weeks on Tamoxifen. Wow, where did that year go?
After all that I am still waiting on yet another set of results from my 12mth scans. With the long weekend in the middle I guess I'll be waiting for a few more anxious days.
I thank my lucky stars I found that lump under my arm when I did. I feel incredibly lucky that I have come out of it with very minimal side effects and my life is bsically the same as before, but I have this constant restless feeling that I should be doing something different, something more.
Wondering if others have just picked up where they left off or changed things in their lives a little or a lot?