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What wld you like health professionals to understand re emotional/ psychological fallout from BC?
On another thread, people have been sharing thoughts about the lack of knowledge/understanding among some breast health professionals about our emotions and psychological state, issues such as sleep d...
@Zoffiel I had a similar experience with menopause; "Don't start imagining that you have all the behavioural changes that some people have".
I was stunned when the rads onc registrar said some BC patients begin to worry that they have what someone else in the same ward has. That makes absolutely no sense. Each set of "results" is individual.
When I have more energy, I'll make a list of my wishes for health professionals. But in the meantime, my classic remains the BC nurse who told me the morning after my mastectomy that I had "catastrophised" everything because I had queried being given the wrong information about scan results (twice).
I was stunned when the rads onc registrar said some BC patients begin to worry that they have what someone else in the same ward has. That makes absolutely no sense. Each set of "results" is individual.
When I have more energy, I'll make a list of my wishes for health professionals. But in the meantime, my classic remains the BC nurse who told me the morning after my mastectomy that I had "catastrophised" everything because I had queried being given the wrong information about scan results (twice).