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Shifting priorities
I am just past two years from BC. It is only now that everything has hit me so deeply. What I had, what happened to the before me, losing friends, so many things just falling away one by one. I feel so tearful and confused most days. I have seen a psychologist. I am exercising. I am back at work. And everything is going…
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Just when you think you can't.....turns out you can!
Hi all,I haven't had a chance to be on here in a while and have been missing you lot :) I hope everyone is getting along ok no matter what stage of the rollercoaster you are at. So, what the heck have I been doing???? The problem Broken husband. Poor DH has been dealing with a crook shoulder for close to a couple of years…
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Post Treatment Letdown
I am just over a year from my initial diagnosis of breast cancer. I had a lumpectomy and node clearance a week after diagnosis, started 6 months of chemo about 4 weeks later, radiotherapy about 6 weeks after chemo and DIEP breast reconstruction 5 weeks after finishing radiation. I am now just over 10 weeks post surgery and…
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Sleep
"We know that as many as 6 in 10 cancer survivors have problems of insomnia, which is up to three times the rate found in the general population." @SoldierCrab pointed out the Survivorship Center and I found this leaflet in their resources: Can-Sleep making night time sleep problems go away from the Peter MacCallum Cancer…
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Menopause article
This is a long read about how the patriarchal world has framed menopause, and the author's response to that and her own menopause. I found it fascinating. https://longreads.com/2019/06/14/darcey-steinke-on-menopause/
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Anyone ever get sick of being their own science experiment?????
I really get the shits with overthinking every so often. Things that "before" you would never have thought twice about doing, eating or cleaning your house with now make you second guess a lot of things. Obviously I am not the only one considering the amount of conversations that go on here regarding the do's, don'ts and…
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Reclaim Your Curves Sydney Support Lunch Sunday 23rd June noon
Hello! Our next lunch is on Sunday 23rd June at the usual venue of Dragonfly Cafe Eden Gardens, Macquarie Park 12 noon to 3pm as usual. We get together and chat all things reconstruction and/or breast cancer/coping/surviving etc etc etc. Please feel free to invite anyone that you may have met that would find our group…
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Seems the healthiest thing I do in my day is pee!
I met up with a friend that I hadn’t seen in a number of years. When I first met her, she was a good time party girl from London. We had a chat about what had been happening over the years. During this conversation I disclosed the BC saga (bad move) which surprisingly triggered a somewhat disapproving look after I…
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6 years and counting my blessings!
Six years ago today I received a phone call from the nurse at my GPs saying that my GP would like to see me that morning. I knew that this was probably not good news about the mammogram and ultrasound I had had the Thursday before. It was a very brief visit where I was to hear the words suspicious for malignancy and the…
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My Otis Retreat
Hubby and I arrived back from Thredbo on Sunday - after 9 days away - including 5 days in Creekside, the Otis Foundation retreat in Thredbo. We stayed in Sydney for the first night with my brother & SIL, then down the coast to Batemans Bay with another friend ....who has just taken delivery of a gorgeous miniature…
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Finished treatment, now what?
Hi All I haven’t been in here for awhile, I think I just battered down the hatches to get myself through treatment. Diagnosed with Grade 3 Triple Neg in Aug 2018. Single mastectomy with lymph clearance in early Sept, followed by 4x AC and 10/12 paclitaxel weekly (finished Feb) then 25 rads which finished 3 weeks ago. As…
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#firstworldbreastcancerproblems
The Letrozole joint pain in my thumb makes it really hard to hold my gin and tonic glass... B)
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Happiness? What's that?
I've been in therapy for many years (about 26 years on and off) for complex PTSD. I've tried talking, Gestalt, CBT, medication and I've even had Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). The one that has worked best for me is DBT - Dialectical Behavioural Therapy. But it's hard and complex and I practice it every day. I've…
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Your very first post
Does anyone ever go back and read their very first post? It's pretty interesting to see what your biggest worry was at the time compared to what it is now. My first post was after months of stalking the pages, goodness I was nearly finished rads. Feels like a lifetime ago. Look how far we've come. It's also interesting to…