What did you do to mark the end of active treatment?

Wow I like that @NewBoobsPLS! You have an amazing family and friends ☺️. 

@Julez1958 that sounds so lovely and yes regenerating.
Celebrating the wins for me is important. My sister and mum organised a fancy girls dinner the night of my last injection. They surprised me. All the wonderful women in my life.
Round Two my girl friends organised a night out to watch Magic Mike 😜 then my bestie treated me to my own hotel room in Sydney CBD.
Finally after Easter hubby and I are going on a weekend away. Lets see if the new girls can add some spice back to the bedroom. During treatment I was super turned off knowing i was cytotoxic. Fingers crossed. 

OMG ... I WISH I’d asked them for a pic of me ‘up up in the air’ as mine was done ‘face down’ (and I am NOT well endowed in that particular Area, so it really surprised me!) 

A couple of times, they almost had to restrain me, as I tried to ‘get off’ whilst still in the air ...
 

I didn’t do chemo, but I had radiation. My birthday was a week before it finished, so I got them a chocolate marble cake. They loved it, and I got known as the girl who brought her own birthday cake (I explained where I’m from this is normal). A week later, when I finished, I got them more chocolates and a card. And I had my picture taken on the bed with the silly snorkel and nose peg. I took them and the shield home as souvenirs. I had my picture taken with my onco too cos she was so lovely. And that was that. It did feel a bit empty afterwards, and also somewhat emotional. So I took myself and my partner for dinner, and bought myself a present for everything I’d endured til then. It’s a strange feeling. 

Pretty sure I left some Easter Eggs with the Nurses .... cos my treatment finished literally, today, 3 years ago!!

I also gave staff chocolates as a Thankyou for looking after me.  

I lucked out and managed to line up a week in one of the Otis Foundation's properties in Bendigo so that was my main celebration.  The private clinic I did radiotherapy through have a tree mural which you can put your fingerprint on which was a nice way to put a full stop on it.

Hi there
I figured I might feel a bit flat at the end of active treatment which was mid December so apart from a bubble bath and lovely home cooked meal by my husband on the night of , I booked a holiday for a week at the beginning of February down the south coast of NSW ( I am in Sydney) at a holiday house.
It was on a hill with a great view and next to a state forest , had lots of kangaroos.
It was very restorative .
I have been on a few holidays to South Australia and there are lots of great places to get away , my picks would be the Flinders Ranges and McLaren Vale.
it is definitely worth celebrating!

Yep, Definitely not worth tempting fate there!   :#

Good on you @MicheleR .... it is SO important to do stuff that YOU want to do - not just what you HAVE to do!  

Definitely, get back into your art & music and craft (whack some pics up on our Craft Corner thread!!  I bet there are other crocheters there too as we have MANY knitters already!)  I lead the local ukulele group - so if you ever wanted to muck around with other people, playing & singing - join a Uke Group! If you get a Baritone Uke, they use the same chord shapes & names as Guitar (but you play only the 4 highest strings instead of the 6.) I love it.  We had our first 'live session' back at a Nursing home yesterday & it gave ALL of us a lift - the residents AND us!!

When hubby finished his chemo, he gave them a lovely drawing that he had done of a young lad playing a cello - Pointillism - all dots!!

take care xx

Hi @arpie, i used to dabble. Just a quick thing.  Im going to do it again, painting, drawing etc. Ive already resumed crafts like crochet. My guitar is also in waiting. When i had kids i got too busy and kindof gave up. 

Im seeing my breast surgeon on April Fools Day. My friend said " you should say you want your other boob off then yell April Fools". God  id never tempt fate. 

Im going to do something just not sure what. Just so anticlimactic.

I agree with the chemo bell ringing not being ideal. I met tonnes of lovely people who will never get off it - mainly bowel cancer - but you know they are thrilled for people who do get off chemo. Its hope you know. 

I did send chocolates to my surgeon after my mastectomu to say thanks to him and his staff. I still see the chemo nurses monthly for an injection. Im planningbon making some beanies and headwear to take for the hospital when im well enough to get some happening. 

Michele