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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…
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Mad Thursday at the cancer centre.
Well, here I am after spending the entire morning and part of the afternoon at our local cancer centre. In between my mapping session, seeing nurses and both oncologists, I sat with my husband watching all the comings and goings. It seems the people within the cancer community are such a supportive lot. Tea and coffee was…
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Call me CRANKY PANTS... a massive rant
Having worked from home yesterday so I could have a bunch of doctor's appointments and various tests I have to go to work today and I so hope that after the frustrations of yesterday I do not snap and some poor unsuspecting colleague becomes collateral damage as I am bound to rip someone's head off today... I know I have…
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First post, can't believe this is happening
So just got out of hospital yesterday, 2 weeks after finding out the lump I found was breast cancer. The freeloaders have been removed and I'm waiting again for more results. The waiting is excruciating - I just want to know what's going on. I've never done blogs or anything before, I don't do social media or anything but…
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Second post - WTF - not what I wanted to hear
A massive massive thanks to those of you who replied to my first blog - I cried when I read your responses, and am so grateful to you all for taking the time to respond. So I was at the hairdressers today getting all my hair cut off, when my surgeon called me with the results and they were not the ones I was hoping for.…
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My timeline
Today specialist advised chemo/radiation - I feel like I am in a dream, is this really happening to me?
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Reflections
Hi all I have not posted for a while but I have been reading many posts and commenting occasionally. Just over two years since my original diagnosis and so much has changed. I have changed, physically and emotionally and although looking back it has gone quickly it seems like it has been such a long road. Having said that…