4 years.....who me?????

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I can’t believe it. Over 4 years from dx!
It seems like yesterday that I was first dx, just couldn’t see beyond the treatment, and planned my funeral.
My hospital bag, with my wig, is still on top of the wardrobe (don’t want to tempt fate), and it’s been there for nearly 4 years gathering dust. My funeral plans are still there too in a file on my PC.
But, here I am enjoying life and (OMG) not thinking of BC for weeks at a time. I never thought I would get here.
I really feel for all of you newly dx and those going through treatment. It’s a truly awful time, but you do get through it. It’s hard, when going through treatment etc, to think how you’ll ever feel normal again, but you do.
So just think of all those women who have come through this and are out enjoying their life again. They don’t come here to let you know, they’re too busy enjoying life. You’ll be there soon.
Take care.
Mal

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How lovely!! Thank you maltomlin - and here is to the next four and multiples thereof!!!

VerityC

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cheers mal,we need to read more like this,will raise a glass to you later,bit early yet even for me,take care,
Di.x

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Tthank you, what a lovely post xxx
Love
KQ

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Thank you! I wish I had read this 4 months ago when I started out on my BC journey, it would have been sooo helpful. Everyone is so supportive on here, but it is quite scary, when you are new to it all, how many ladies are back for the second time or even more frightening: facing secondaries.

Wishing you many more 4-year anniversaries - and don’t forget to keep coming back to reassure the newbies. If I’m as lucky as you, I intend to do that too!

Enjoy yourself!

xx

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thats great news, and thank you so much for your message, like JCJ says it helps a lot to us newbies.
xxx

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Thanks for that Mal. great to hear stories like yours. Also made me smile reading about your hospital bag on top of the wardrobe, just in case!!! (Albeit covered in dust)!!! We can never allow ourselves to get TOOOOO cocky!!!
But, well done you. And heres to many more years top come, for all of us
Mandy
xx

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Thanks Mal for such a positive and helpful message. I’ve had MX and some nodes removed. Start on the long haul of Chemo + herceptin in the coming months. There already seems light at the far end of this unknown tunnel
Joycex

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Hi
I’m sorry I didn’t realise that there was a duplicate post.
I’m also sorry I didn’t realise that my original dx had disappeared. For those who are interested I was dx with a 3cm, grade 3, ER/PR+, HER2- tumour with 3 out of 24 nodes affected and vascular invasion.
I’m great and working through my ‘bucket list’, feeling totally fine, but it does take a while to get there.
Don’t expect to feel ‘normal’ as soon as you’ve finished treatment. It takes time for your body (and mind) to recuperate. It’s a big deal.
Take one day at a time, don’t google too much and just remember that the folks on here are worried or undergoing treatment of one kind or another.
There are plenty like me, planning their next holiday.
Mal x