Here Goes
Hello. My name is Jenny and I live on the NSW/Vic Border. I have gone to post in here a couple of times but backed out. Denial maybe? On Wednesday I was officially given the diagnosis of BC. I hav...
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Hi @TabooGal,
Looks like the girls have given you a whole heap of warmth and information already.
I remember getting my results. It was three days before my twin daughters 18th birhday. It's still gives me the shivers thinking about it. The doctor kind of just pointed to the results with the underlined "highly suspicious for metastatic cancer".
Your whole world goes to shit in less than a minute. The foggy haze and fear creeps in. It's so normal. Scream, yell, shout cry whatever you need to do. I Dr googled myself to death that weekend. Don't do that! (We know you will)
I remember being too scared to ring up and get the CT results as I already knew it was in my lymph nodes (that's where I found the lump, not in my breast) so could only imagine the worst.
The short version is the CT and bone scan was clear, so yay. I spent a month chasing around the breast lesion as I was opting for lumpectomy so we needed to find the bugger.
I had the lumpectomy and full node clearance. There were 5 positive for BC. With the pathology back, I now had a plan.
6 weeks after surgery I started 6 mths chemo. There really was no option with that because of the node involvement.
4 weeks after chemo I began 30 rounds of radiation. I am now almost a year since active treatment finished.
Get your results, no matter who says what and take notes. I found taking my breast care nurse to appointments was easier than having family there and dealing with their emotions. She was also invaluable at explaining things that i forgotten to even ask.
I just wanted to let you know, you will get through, you will be ok. One step at a time, one day at a time. Everyone is here for you. We all get it.
XOXOXOXOXOXO
Looks like the girls have given you a whole heap of warmth and information already.
I remember getting my results. It was three days before my twin daughters 18th birhday. It's still gives me the shivers thinking about it. The doctor kind of just pointed to the results with the underlined "highly suspicious for metastatic cancer".
Your whole world goes to shit in less than a minute. The foggy haze and fear creeps in. It's so normal. Scream, yell, shout cry whatever you need to do. I Dr googled myself to death that weekend. Don't do that! (We know you will)
I remember being too scared to ring up and get the CT results as I already knew it was in my lymph nodes (that's where I found the lump, not in my breast) so could only imagine the worst.
The short version is the CT and bone scan was clear, so yay. I spent a month chasing around the breast lesion as I was opting for lumpectomy so we needed to find the bugger.
I had the lumpectomy and full node clearance. There were 5 positive for BC. With the pathology back, I now had a plan.
6 weeks after surgery I started 6 mths chemo. There really was no option with that because of the node involvement.
4 weeks after chemo I began 30 rounds of radiation. I am now almost a year since active treatment finished.
Get your results, no matter who says what and take notes. I found taking my breast care nurse to appointments was easier than having family there and dealing with their emotions. She was also invaluable at explaining things that i forgotten to even ask.
I just wanted to let you know, you will get through, you will be ok. One step at a time, one day at a time. Everyone is here for you. We all get it.
XOXOXOXOXOXO