1st Birthday after…
1st Birthday after… Hi Girls
Well today is my first birthday after I have finished my treatment in April and I feel so up and down. One minute I feel so grateful to still be here and the other minute I,m crying and I dont know why.
I have bought myself a birthday cake and when I have a piece I light the candle on it and sing ‘happy birthday’ to myself…(the chemo has made me ‘slightly’ deranged!)
Anyway just wanted to share those strange feelings with you all.
Much love
Debbie x
Happy Birthday Debbie, here’s to many more.
Jan
Thank you… Hi Girls
Thank you so much for your messages…I’m going now to enjoy a glass or two of champagne!!!
Much love
Debbie xx
happy birthday hope it was a good one for you! i’m having a glass of wine so, CHEERS DEBBIE! and heres to many many more.
best wishes annie x
Belated Birthday Wishes Glad to see you opened the champers with the cake, hope you had a lovely day girl, and many more of them !!
Hugs
Marge
xx
Belated Happy Birthday Hi there
Nice to speak to you the other day. Happy birthday - I hoped you enjoyed your cake and champagne. I was lucky enough to be taken to the Good Food Show on Sat by hubby so mucho sampling of wine and food.
Got the book you recommended today so just about to collapse on the settee and start to read it. Definitely need something to pick me up at the moment as really struggling. Lots of tears, stamping and shouting but I know I will get there eventually.
Luv
DebX
Hi Deb… Hi Deb
Hope you enjoy and get something out of the book, its the kind of easy read that you can dip in and out of. I would loved to have gone to the Good Food Show, was it good…see anything new?
Sorry you cant make the get together…dont worry we are going to do it again…and again …and again!!
Enjoy your trip and don’t you worry, you can scream and shout all you like…join the club!! (I find that when I am starting to boil I take the dogs through the woods and start singing to myself, get this one…I even wanted to hug a tree the other day!!!) Oh yes the chemo really has knocked me over the edge)
Love Debbie x
Love Debbie
1st Birthday Congrats Debbie. From now on it can only get better! Hope you enjoyed cake and champagne.
Must say, I am in the same boat, now 14 months post end of treatment and have just recently hit a very bad ‘low’ point. Managed to just about getting everything together again, so don’t know whats happening?
I think when we all go through all the treatments etc, we just sort of deal with it all day by day. When its all over, and everyone thinks we are ‘back to normal’ (what is normal I hear you say), this is often the time when all those thoughts we repressed, come flooding out
I am seeing a very good counsellor now (at GP surgery) and she is giving me loads of good tips. One is to write down every day 3 things that you managed to do, made you happy etc. and concentrate on that, rather than all the things you can’t manage any more. Must say, it is making a difference. Try it, Debbie, it might just help.
And, from what others have said on this site, 1 year is not very long in this cancer journey.
Best of luck.
Birgit