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Coping with the 'new normal'
Hi all I'm grateful that I've gotten through invasive treatment and life has kind of gone back to normal, although I'm still working out my 'new normal'. I finished rads 6 week ago and have been o...
@SarahS
Welcome to the blog!! Out of interest - Are you here more as a researcher for you PhD, or because you too have been touched with Breast Cancer yourself?
If you haven't already, I would highly recommend that you (and pass it on to ALL other health professional who works with cancer patients - Breast Cancer in particular) read Liz O'Riordan's Breast Cancer Blog - she was a fit, young Breast Cancer surgeon in the UK who was diagnosed with BC a few years back, having surgery, chemo & meds - and then had a recurrence last year. She has now had to give up being a Breast Cancer surgeon as a direct result of her own diagnosis, surgery & treatments ..... Click on the 'Cancer Blog' for her story. Her most recent update was in the last 2 weeks. It is a very honest, truthful, painful story of her own BC experience - and as she is a health professional herself, is more likely to be believed than us 'normal folk' going thru BC.
http://liz.oriordan.co.uk
I am going on an Otis Foundation retreat at the end of April. I can't wait!
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Welcome to the blog!! Out of interest - Are you here more as a researcher for you PhD, or because you too have been touched with Breast Cancer yourself?
If you haven't already, I would highly recommend that you (and pass it on to ALL other health professional who works with cancer patients - Breast Cancer in particular) read Liz O'Riordan's Breast Cancer Blog - she was a fit, young Breast Cancer surgeon in the UK who was diagnosed with BC a few years back, having surgery, chemo & meds - and then had a recurrence last year. She has now had to give up being a Breast Cancer surgeon as a direct result of her own diagnosis, surgery & treatments ..... Click on the 'Cancer Blog' for her story. Her most recent update was in the last 2 weeks. It is a very honest, truthful, painful story of her own BC experience - and as she is a health professional herself, is more likely to be believed than us 'normal folk' going thru BC.
http://liz.oriordan.co.uk
I am going on an Otis Foundation retreat at the end of April. I can't wait!
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