Hi everyone,
My sister has been diagnosed with stage 3 IDC this summer and is going into her 3rd week of chemotherapy (she’s only 23) just wondering if there is anyone in the Belfast area who is going through anything similar and would like to meet up with her and share symptoms, she would really appreciate talking to someone going through the same thing.
ta xoxoxox
hi, im soo sorry to hear about your sister. Im a lot older, was 41 on dx, but consider myself a lot younger!! ive finished chemo and herceptin, just got ovaries out, single mum of 3 under 14…
your sister is soo young, its devasting…i even felt i was the youngest at the cancer center…
if you think i can help i will,
if anthing i can bump up your post x
jill
Hi
I haven’t posted on here for a while. I live an hours drive away from Belfast. I am 35 and was diagnosed back in 2005 and went through mastectomy and chemo and am considering reconstruction, went to see a surgeon in Belfast last week.
How is your sister doing? How are you doing? Its so hard for everyone, I remember thinking to myself how much harder I thought it was for all my loved ones to see me going through the op and chemo etc.
If I can help in anyway please feel free to contact me. Even if you just need a little support yourself and someone to talk things over with.
Hugs
Neenie xx
Hi,
I am really sorry to hear your sis has jumped on this nightmare journey. I am 33 and about to have my last chemo next Wed. I live in Ballymena but will be going to the City hospital for radiotherapy if they ever get it organised (my onc team not the City hospital). I was dx on 7th April and started chemo on 25th June and I have had 5 so far. I am supposed to be having 25 rads and then tamoxifen for 5 years. Get your sister to contact the Ulster Cancer Foundation as well, they run support groups across the province but the last 1 I went to I was the youngest by about 30 years.
I hope you are coping OK with your sis’s dx, I think it is harder on everyone else around me than it is for me but everyone is different. If you and your sis want a meet up then just let me know. I am a tad older but very young at heart and honestly with this thing age doesn’t matter anymore.
Take care
Lisa
xoxo
Hi Everyone,
Thanks for the replies, i haven’t figured out how to reply to people individually yet, so bear with me! My sister is doing alright, shes had 2 chemo treatments so far, she had a head shaving party last weekend, so I think that made the situation seem more real for her. The doctors have advised that the type she has is aggressive, tumor was 6.5cm, so st III and 17 out of of 26 nodes where affected. Shes had a partial mastectomy but shes due to get the full one closer to the end of her chemo, then rads and herceptin, then fingers crossed remission for the next 60 years…
I currently live in Scotland but making plans to move back to Belfast next week so i can help her out. I’ll get in touch with the UCF when I get over there, it would be really great if she could meet up or even just chat online with people who have gone through, or are going through the same thing.
I’m doin alright, and my parents seem to be doing ok, although this has been a deja-vu for them as my younger brother died of leukemia, which i realise isn’t directly linked, but needless to say Ive been told that theres gonna be a ream of weird and wonderful genetic tests waiting for me when I get over there…
Just wondering does anyone have any tips for what relatives can do? Ive been burning funny dvds for her, as shes not really able to focus on books an stuff right now… Im trying to think of things that will help her keep her head busy…
Anyways, thanks a lot for the kind replies, any advice you can give would be awesome xx