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Feeling anxious need some positive stories
Hi All, I don’t know where to start with this one. Am 38 with 2 small boys. Was diagnosed last Feb opted for double mastectomy, then had 4 Ac then 12 taxol then 6 weeks of rads. My cancer was oestro...
Acknowledge how you feel and understand it is OK to be frightened. We do our best to keep it all together but the tension simmers underneath regardless of how hard you try to put a lid on it. Even if we play mental sleight of hand games with ourselves, the monster is still under the bed.
I refuse to keep anniversaries or keep track of the BC calendar any more. It does my head in. I've got people congratulating me on getting through the first year and it makes me want to see scream. I made it through 10 years NED then whammo...So, no more counting now. One less thing to stress about.
Concentrate on now, today, the moment you are in is the only truth for any of us. If you are sad, accept it. You have a right to your own grief and fear, but you will not feel like that forever. Some little thing will make you smile and the spell can be broken. Just. Like. That. Mxxx
I refuse to keep anniversaries or keep track of the BC calendar any more. It does my head in. I've got people congratulating me on getting through the first year and it makes me want to see scream. I made it through 10 years NED then whammo...So, no more counting now. One less thing to stress about.
Concentrate on now, today, the moment you are in is the only truth for any of us. If you are sad, accept it. You have a right to your own grief and fear, but you will not feel like that forever. Some little thing will make you smile and the spell can be broken. Just. Like. That. Mxxx