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kmakm
7 years agoMember
This from @Sister should be given to everyone clinical person involved with treating breast cancer. It perfectly sums up how so many feel as newly minted survivors, and why a bit more support is required in this phase.
"I hate the "new normal". There's nothing normal about it. I'm floundering most of the time, I'm so bloody tired, I have no memory, I'm clinically depressed, my body doesn't work properly anymore, I feel as if I have woken up having aged about 20 years overnight, I wonder if I'm going to see my kids grow up and become whoever they're going to be, I feel disconnected from my body and often from my inner self, I'm a cranky bitch with a short fuse, I feel like running away but suspect I might follow me."
"I hate the "new normal". There's nothing normal about it. I'm floundering most of the time, I'm so bloody tired, I have no memory, I'm clinically depressed, my body doesn't work properly anymore, I feel as if I have woken up having aged about 20 years overnight, I wonder if I'm going to see my kids grow up and become whoever they're going to be, I feel disconnected from my body and often from my inner self, I'm a cranky bitch with a short fuse, I feel like running away but suspect I might follow me."