The Secret Suckiness Of Life After Breast Cancer

Me too, @kmakm.   Great advice there, @Sister.   I may be changing GPs again (whilst she is on maternity leave) as she also doesn't really take the side effects seriously - tho she DID put me on Prednisone for my uke gig at the Blue Mountains in Feb.

I'll see which 'older' female GPs may be at the practise - trouble is - they seem to have a revolving door!! If only mine would come back from Melbourne!   :(  

My lovely abandoned-me-for-Orange GP told me that, if she has to find a new doctor, she finds out how old they are first.  If they're around the same age, they or their friends will be likely to be going through the same shit.

I f******g hate the laughing-at-menopause-symptoms-not-yet-menopausal-oncologist...  :#  

@arpie No she just had a good laugh. That’s okay. She probably hasn’t gone through menopause YET. Her time will come.

Did she roll her eyes @Blossom1961 ??   The male Onc I had originally, did - so now am with a compassionate lovely lady!

Cheeky Oncologist. She asked me what side effects I was still experiencing. I finished the list with “oh yes, and those rotten hot flushes”. She laughed at me! I guess that means I just have to put up with them. 😏

This really should read cancer

This is often also true of someone who has had cancer

Hello All,

I just read the above comment and I too have to agree , while we all share BC which is bad enough , our own individual family trouble, struggles are only ours to deal access and address .

  I had  a wonderful moment yesterday , my eldest son had his University graduation , I cried, not only because I was proud but because I was alive to see it happen, his professor was sitting next to me , thought I was a total nutcase, pity I couldn't tell him that I have Mets , my youngest understood , but now doesn't want to attend his ceremony , so I don't get sad.

  So I picked myself up and pretend all is ok , I guess our lives became a mirror,  we show people   the reflection but not the substance and yes the rest of the family , doesn't want to hear when I'm in pain or down , only the good stuff.

  @kmakm , my dog and cat have became my most loyal companions, so much better than people , I understand the "dead inside bit too" it's just sometimes to difficult and takes to much effort to care , then the "not going to beat me " rolls in and you go another round , until the next moment that you cant do something that 12 months ago you did with your eyes closed.