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Quest for life foundation retreat
just wondering if anyone has had any experience with these retreats. Focus is on meditation counselling meditation etc and run bully Petrea King? Thanks in advance.
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Help sleeping/coping techniques
Hi All. I am currently 2 weeks post op for mastectomy and reconstruction using own tissue after DCIS diagnosis. Everything has happened so incredibly quickly. As much as I thought I was prepared for everything that was going on have been totally rocked emotionally by everything that has happened. Has anyone got any…
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new to all this-diagnosis, illness, treatment-just thought I'd introduce myself
Hi there to all you lovely and courageous women who inhabit this site- just thought I'd introduce myself though I have already posted a couple of times so some may be familiar with me. Doesn't life change in an instant! I'm currently 55 yo and until a month or so ago I was a hard working medical practitioner, sole parent…
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Well that sux
Dx on 24/08/16. port going in on 12/08/16 first round of chemo starting on 12/08/16. 3 week intervals X 4 then 1 week intervals X 12. no tears, maintaining control of the situation and all around me registered nurse... Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
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feeling super sad and crying all the time
Hi Everyone, I was diagnosed in April with her 2 breast cancer and had a lumpectomy 10 weeks ago. At the time I coped quite well I am 53 and although surprised at the time and shocked I seem to handle it. As I have made the decision not to have chemo and radium and herceptin after a great deal of research on the side…
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Friday Update!
Welcome to the Friday update! There has been a variety of topics being shared & discussed this week with a common theme being support! So thank you for being there for each other x Community Highlights We have 27 new members. Please say hello to Starrletta, divilly49, yacht and all our new members. This week we had 51…
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Friday Update!
Hi everyone! I wanted to start Friday's update with a little message. Community Highlights We have 20 new members. Please say hello to wooda, smiley1, mazzie57, Loppy and all our new members. This week we had 50 posts and 359 comments. A big thank you to everyone who takes the time to come online and join in on the…
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First Timer
I have newly being diagnosed with Breast Cancer,I feel so overwhelmd by it all.Told on Monday 11/07/2016 that I have Breast Cancer then I have appointment at the Hospital next Thursday 21/07/2016 to find out what date my operation to remove the lump with be, then 5/6 weeks radiation treatment after that. It is so hard to…
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I'm a newbie
Living a nightmare. DX 26 June IDC stage 2....WTF!!! This can't be happening to me.......reality check......it really is happening and I'm not going to wake up from this nightmare to what my life was. I'm going to wake up to a whole new world, one which I'm scared I can't navigate through. It feels like an endless road…
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Trouble with seatbelts?
A 68-year-old Sydney woman received a fine for altering her seatbelt after her breast cancer operation. Lin Riley claims she was pulled over for a Random Breath Test on Oxford Street in Sydney, when a police officer spotted a bulldog clip at the retractor on her seatbelt above her right shoulder, News Corp reports. Ms…
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NEWLY DIAGNOSED
Hi there so this is my first post. I'm not a fan usually of social network but have decided to join this group as an extra support network. I have two great kids aged 19 and 17 and the most gorgeous wonderful husband of 22 years. I had a mammogram, ultrasound, and core biopsy last week and Friday was told that I have…