A light at the end of the tunnel for all newbies

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Hi to you all and so sorry you find yourselves here looking at my post but I wanted to share some positive thoughts. Last Xmas my world fell apart and Iheard the awful C word and thought my life was over. The next few weeks passed quickly through a haze of appointments, surgery and people looking at me thinking “thank god it’s not me!” 6 months down the line this is all a distant memory and like child birth quickly forgotten. I look on this as a wake up call, a chance for a new start to focus on me and not others and I am now a different person. I have slimed back to my pre children weight, dropped 2 dress sizes, look fabulous and feel so much better. I have changed my diet and bought myself a new wardrobe of clothes. I avoid stress and don’t bring my work home and don’t care if the house work is not done. So what I want to say to you is things will get better and you will come through this a stronger person x

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Thanks for that’s Carrie35, that’s a really lovely post xxx

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Six months down the line? so no chemo, presumably. I wish I could slim two sizes instead of putting them on!
Four years down the line I do feel better and better, although I have a lot of after-effects of treatment and side-effects of anti-hormone pills. Indeed, the OP plus chemo and radiotherapy was really not too bad at all, but what happened afterwards came without much warning. I am very much looking forward to stopping the tablets.

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Hi Keena Yes, I know it is all scary. But rest assured. Her 2 positive dx was a very poor prognosticator PRIOR to HerceptinTx.
I was one of the " early" Herceptin Ladies that rec’d herceptin when it was just approved for NON Stage IV BC.
Prior to herceptin tx , the news was really dismal for Her 2 dx. But it has become a MAJOR game changer.
Anyway, I had a super aggressive Her 2 pos tumor with 12 positive nodes(Stage IIIC) and will be celebrating 7 years NED in 2 weeks.
You will be ok!

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I was diagnosed yesterday and still reeling but your posts ( now I can read them) have given me an uplift maybe I will stop crying quite somuch.