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Is it? Isn’t it? Anxiously waiting...
I don’t usually talk about what’s going on, but it’s gotten too much today. I’m feeling really anxious and hoping someone can give me reassurance or even just witness this period of uncertainty... A bit of back story... I found a lump a few months ago in my left breast. It was only small and I thought it was just a minor…
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Music for radiation therapy
Apparently some centre let you chose music for your radiation therapy. Although there is music playing, I’ve not been offered this but even so, I wouldn’t want to risk creating a mental link between something horrible to my all time favourite music. So if they asked me I’d just say play Billy Joel. 😆 But this got me…
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Struggling to cope
Hi everyone, im one week diagnosed with 5cm triple negative stage 2 grade 3 breast cancer. I’m completely freaking out but I’m really struggling to see past anything but dark thoughts.CT scan showed up clear and having bone scan and genetics test this week. I recently had a baby and have a six year old and all I can think…
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Recurrence
Hi There, I'm posting my story on here as I am feeling lost - my family and friends are really supportive but I just don't feel understood. In 2015 I was diagnosed with low grade DCIS - my treatment was mastectomy, SNB with reconstruction in February 2016, followed by a prophylactic mastectomy of my remaining breast in…
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Waiting for results
Hi all....happy I found this place to share and learn :) Sooo....I had the re-call after mammogram. No lump as such, just little white area on mammogram. Visit to Breast Clinic for more mammograms and ultrasound. Results showed suspicious 7mm papillery lesion so had 7 core needle biopsies taken. No actual cancerous cells…
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Life - is it metastasis or not
Life has been one heck of a roller coaster since I was on here last, Just when I had been back at work and full steam ahead with life and plans and Feeling great about life. Then is went to trash. This year I lost my dad in May to Esophageal cancer it took a year, then My Brother in August lung cancer (well actually the…
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Is that right? Did you really say that?
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Guided Meditation for chemotherapy
Hi everyone, I was diagnosed a month ago, had a lumpectomy and am about to have my 3rd round of chemo. I found this guided meditation on You Tube specifically for chemo. It's been wonderful and I do it morning and night. It's helped me cope with anxiety and worry and taught me how to change my thinking so that I view chemo…
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how to accept the diagnosis?
I was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in May. I had radiation treatment on my spine and wasstarted on Kisquali and Letrozole (was previously on Arimidex). My original diagnosis was in 2017, when I had a mastectomy, chemo and radiation and went on Arimidex. The Kisquali is now not working and I am being assessed for…
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Hello and liver
hi all thought id introduce myself. 43 with 3 kids I had bc 10 years ago. 2 years ago back pain and a scan showed Mets to sacrum. On xgeva and femara and in remission after radiation. Then most recent scan showed a met in my liver. Anyone else on a similar shitty path with the liver. I did a silly thing and looked at dr…
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Back off please
How do I tell a someone to ease up on the questions, especially when I don't even have the answers myself Its a close friend so I don't want to hurt her. but it feels like a million and one questions every day. I know this is never going to go away but I would like a day where can at least put it in the background.
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Freaking out a bit
Hi, It’s been a while since I’ve been on here....mainly because I cope best by not thinking about the cancer. (Diag dec 2017...stage 2. +Hormone -Her - Lumpectomy, radiation and tamoxifen) But, over the past 6 weeks, I’ve developed tinnitus, dizziness and bad headache) I’ve been to the ENT who has referred me for a head…