4 year anniversary - Im still here!!
Hi Ladies, as the title suggests its now been 4 years since THAT DAY, you know the one!, when you are sitting down{Which is just as well} as the news you are about to receive will knock your socks off, you have METASTATIC BREAST CANCER, you need to see an Oncologist and the stats are 7 years, just like that! no niceities no pleasantries just straight out like that, believe me this early breast surgeon needs to go back and learn some customer service skills.
Well here I am 4 years on, a bit worse for the wear but most definately still here, due to modern medical science my 6 tumours in my liver are now down to 2 - and they and the cancer in my bones/spine are stable - my cancer markers have been sitting around 11 and 12 for the last 6 months, and yes I feel a little guilty about that, when I know of others which are so high, however I have done the hard yards, perservered when I thought that I was ready to chuck it all in and I live to fight another day.
I want to send a big thank you to ALL at BCNA if it wasnt for this forum and the support and understanding I have received along the way I am not quite sure that I would be in the good head space that I am now.
I have the support and encouragement of an amazing McGrath nurse, I have utilised community services, so I now have a cleaner twice a fortnight, I have a pyschologist in Adelaide and I have also used BCNA's counsellors, the services are there, we just have to find them, I have the most amazing partner, he is my soft place to fall. How lucky am I
I log on most days and read the words that you all write, sad, happy, encouraging but most off you are just there, to advise, laugh and cry with, to give that little bit of support when we need it most - you ARE the most incredible group of women that I have ever had the pleasure to"meet" some of you are not with us any more and that makes me so very sad, to think of all the beautiful, loving
women who have been lost to this most dreadful disease, I hope and I pray that there will be a cure for those of us in the "Metastatic Breast Cancer World" one day in the not too distant future, until then, WE, all of us, just have to take each day,love our families and friends and especially our selves create memories and live each day to best of our ability, some of us will run marathons, some of us will climb mountains, but each and every one of us is running our own marathon and climbing our our mountain.
Thank you, and Yes I will write this all again inaother 4 years timne!!!
Wendy
Well here I am 4 years on, a bit worse for the wear but most definately still here, due to modern medical science my 6 tumours in my liver are now down to 2 - and they and the cancer in my bones/spine are stable - my cancer markers have been sitting around 11 and 12 for the last 6 months, and yes I feel a little guilty about that, when I know of others which are so high, however I have done the hard yards, perservered when I thought that I was ready to chuck it all in and I live to fight another day.
I want to send a big thank you to ALL at BCNA if it wasnt for this forum and the support and understanding I have received along the way I am not quite sure that I would be in the good head space that I am now.
I have the support and encouragement of an amazing McGrath nurse, I have utilised community services, so I now have a cleaner twice a fortnight, I have a pyschologist in Adelaide and I have also used BCNA's counsellors, the services are there, we just have to find them, I have the most amazing partner, he is my soft place to fall. How lucky am I
I log on most days and read the words that you all write, sad, happy, encouraging but most off you are just there, to advise, laugh and cry with, to give that little bit of support when we need it most - you ARE the most incredible group of women that I have ever had the pleasure to"meet" some of you are not with us any more and that makes me so very sad, to think of all the beautiful, loving
women who have been lost to this most dreadful disease, I hope and I pray that there will be a cure for those of us in the "Metastatic Breast Cancer World" one day in the not too distant future, until then, WE, all of us, just have to take each day,love our families and friends and especially our selves create memories and live each day to best of our ability, some of us will run marathons, some of us will climb mountains, but each and every one of us is running our own marathon and climbing our our mountain.
Thank you, and Yes I will write this all again inaother 4 years timne!!!
Wendy
