Have the blues hit this site?
I don't know whether it's my imagination because that's the space I'm in at the moment, if it's just a cyclic thing and there's a lot of us active around the 6-12mth post-diagnosis, or is there some s...
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Yes, there's been a bunch of our 'Breasties' who have been doing it really tough over the last 4-6 weeks & I hope that those of us not doing it so tough have been able to lighten the burden a bit & show that there IS light at the end of the tunnel.
To be honest, I have also noticed the 'mood disorder' too - and I also think it may related to the shitty, cold, wet weather we are also experiencing, that may be exacerbating our shitty side effects & moods! :(
When we were first diagnosed & started our treatment - no-one knew just how much this shitty road we've had to navigate would affect us personally - it can change from day to day - for better or worse.
It can just take one 'little stuff up' that can change us from being relatively OK & 'sort of in charge' to being a 'bawling wreck'.
Luckily, this is usually a TEMPORARY STATE and with counselling and help from us and your family & friends ...... you WILL GET THRU it.
To everyone reading this thread - please know that not EVERYONE gets EVERY symptom that some of us have had .... and hopefully you will sail thru most of your surgeries and treatment .... please try not to get too anxious leading into surgery or post op treatment - cos the complications just may not happen.
As @kezmusc says - let's hear from those 'positive stories' as well as the painful ones. This doesn't take anything away from those going thru really tough times - I've seen some of the photos - and it can be SO confronting ....... Reading the 'positive' stories are just so uplifting - and shows that there CAN be light at the end of the tunnel - and quality of life.
I've been to 2 funerals today - both related to members of my ukulele group. One (the husband of my uke friend and a member of our group) who passed away from a stroke - he also had met prostate cancer. The other was a young lad who was in Year 12, from suicide. His grandparents are both members of my uke group - his grandmother has met BC. 500 people (mainly school 'friends') attended his funeral today. Yet he felt 'alone'. The ever expanding ripples from his death will be everlasting for his younger brother, mother, father, aunts, uncles and grandparents .... then there are the school friends who are grieving so badly ..... it is all just SO sad. He was a lovely looking young man, a high achiever ..... yet he had no idea how much he was loved & looked up to.
Just know that you are NOT ALONE when you feel down & stressed.
We all feel it at some stage - we've all been thru it to some degree or another - or we may be about to go thru it ..... PLEASE - just talk about it with your family and friends - and with us ....
Take care out there xxxx
To be honest, I have also noticed the 'mood disorder' too - and I also think it may related to the shitty, cold, wet weather we are also experiencing, that may be exacerbating our shitty side effects & moods! :(
When we were first diagnosed & started our treatment - no-one knew just how much this shitty road we've had to navigate would affect us personally - it can change from day to day - for better or worse.
It can just take one 'little stuff up' that can change us from being relatively OK & 'sort of in charge' to being a 'bawling wreck'.
Luckily, this is usually a TEMPORARY STATE and with counselling and help from us and your family & friends ...... you WILL GET THRU it.
To everyone reading this thread - please know that not EVERYONE gets EVERY symptom that some of us have had .... and hopefully you will sail thru most of your surgeries and treatment .... please try not to get too anxious leading into surgery or post op treatment - cos the complications just may not happen.
As @kezmusc says - let's hear from those 'positive stories' as well as the painful ones. This doesn't take anything away from those going thru really tough times - I've seen some of the photos - and it can be SO confronting ....... Reading the 'positive' stories are just so uplifting - and shows that there CAN be light at the end of the tunnel - and quality of life.
I've been to 2 funerals today - both related to members of my ukulele group. One (the husband of my uke friend and a member of our group) who passed away from a stroke - he also had met prostate cancer. The other was a young lad who was in Year 12, from suicide. His grandparents are both members of my uke group - his grandmother has met BC. 500 people (mainly school 'friends') attended his funeral today. Yet he felt 'alone'. The ever expanding ripples from his death will be everlasting for his younger brother, mother, father, aunts, uncles and grandparents .... then there are the school friends who are grieving so badly ..... it is all just SO sad. He was a lovely looking young man, a high achiever ..... yet he had no idea how much he was loved & looked up to.
Just know that you are NOT ALONE when you feel down & stressed.
We all feel it at some stage - we've all been thru it to some degree or another - or we may be about to go thru it ..... PLEASE - just talk about it with your family and friends - and with us ....
Take care out there xxxx