Post Treatment Letdown
I am just over a year from my initial diagnosis of breast cancer. I had a lumpectomy and node clearance a week after diagnosis, started 6 months of chemo about 4 weeks later, radiotherapy about 6 week...
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Now I am 6 years later as a Survivor and I can honestly say, you do cope, and you do get through. Not all solutions help each person. I had quite the unique experience of Breast Cancer, no more than you did, or the next. We are all so different at how we cope, who is in our lives and from where we draw our strength. I smiled about the comments regarding Sexual appetite because mine disappeared with my monthly's at the age of 40 ! How different we all are. Lucky for me, I had met a man who also had gone through his peak prior to our marriage at 39. (smiling).
For me, the Post Stress that occurred was surprising, yet brief. Through my own year off with Cancer, I taught myself a lot via reading books and learning about the power of the mind and how to shift my focus. I was cranky after I survived Cancer that I had very little money left, and couldn't afford all the "Bucket List" options, all the wealthy people experience. I had Triple Negative BC, and I was looking over my shoulder for the first 3 years wondering if it would stay away. I hear a lot don't.
The strength I get comes from continuously learning how to use Mindfulness techniques and meditation, problems are always there in life, it is how we learn to see things differently, that makes our lives change.
Now I am 6 years later as a Survivor and I can honestly say, you do cope, and you do get through. Not all solutions help each person. I had quite the unique experience of Breast Cancer, no more than you did, or the next. We are all so different at how we cope, who is in our lives and from where we draw our strength. I smiled about the comments regarding Sexual appetite because mine disappeared with my monthly's at the age of 40 ! How different we all are. Lucky for me, I had met a man who also had gone through his peak prior to our marriage at 39. (smiling).
For me, the Post Stress that occurred was surprising, yet brief. Through my own year off with Cancer, I taught myself a lot via reading books and learning about the power of the mind and how to shift my focus. I was cranky after I survived Cancer that I had very little money left, and couldn't afford all the "Bucket List" options, all the wealthy people experience. I had Triple Negative BC, and I was looking over my shoulder for the first 3 years wondering if it would stay away. I hear a lot don't.
The strength I get comes from continuously learning how to use Mindfulness techniques and meditation, problems are always there in life, it is how we learn to see things differently, that makes our lives change.