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Feeling ordinary
Ok ,so I’m a few months post treatment finishing. Day by day, I’m feeling slowly better and so glad to be here. Grateful for my care. In some ways I feel really lucky! Life seems more magical in so...
Hi Caz1
everyone is different
and yet, everyone on here can relate in some way to what you are saying
I have had my mastectomy and radiotherapy ( did not need chemotherapy) and have been on Femara for a few months.
When I was getting all the results of my scans and there was no evidence the cancer had spread to other places I thought that was the end of it.
then I found out that most women who get stage 4 cancer get it later on, not on the first diagnosis.
so of course we all have some anxiety about recurrence .
the main difference is how we deal with it.
sone may need professional help to deal with it , some may not.
Each month that passes since the end of my radiotherapy I get a bit better.
I realised after I went away on holiday for a week a couple of months ago I had spent a whole week without crying!So that was progress.
I am trying to focus on only doing things that are fun or necessary , looking after myself both physically and emotionally and enjoying all the good things about my life.
I have found this forum very helpful as only women who have had breast cancer can ever truly understand what it is like.
everyone is different
and yet, everyone on here can relate in some way to what you are saying
I have had my mastectomy and radiotherapy ( did not need chemotherapy) and have been on Femara for a few months.
When I was getting all the results of my scans and there was no evidence the cancer had spread to other places I thought that was the end of it.
then I found out that most women who get stage 4 cancer get it later on, not on the first diagnosis.
so of course we all have some anxiety about recurrence .
the main difference is how we deal with it.
sone may need professional help to deal with it , some may not.
Each month that passes since the end of my radiotherapy I get a bit better.
I realised after I went away on holiday for a week a couple of months ago I had spent a whole week without crying!So that was progress.
I am trying to focus on only doing things that are fun or necessary , looking after myself both physically and emotionally and enjoying all the good things about my life.
I have found this forum very helpful as only women who have had breast cancer can ever truly understand what it is like.