Hi Morwenna today is the best time to post you need all the support you can get at a time like this .sorry my situation is different. After sugary no chemo just rads and tablets so I can not offer much advices. You are not spreading alarm and despondency. This forum is all about giving each other help, advice, support and encouragement in good and bad times I am sure others will be along soon with words of advice and encouragement big hugs to you AnnG
Hi Morwenna
I was diagnosed in May 2010 and had three tumours the largest very big - I had a mx and node clearance, 2 out of 23 affected. I had chemo and rads and now on letrozole. Just take it one day at a time, you are doing incredibly well and the fantastic news is so little node involvement and no spread, who cares how big the lumps are if they are gone? If they didn’t get out and looks like you have every reason to hope - your prognosis is good. Just believe it, start thinking of you well and recovered in 8 months time. It really does pass very quickly, its awful and sad and frightening but you can do it and you will, and soon enough it will all be behind you. Learn to breathe deeply, get as much sleep as you can (I found I coped better when I wasn’t tired out - took me ages to realise that duh!) and KNOW you can do it and have a future. I couldn’t even imagine a future but I have and so much has come out of this I can’t believe it and wouldn’t have imagined it possible. I cut down on sugar, started on geen tea and learnt to meditate, all very new to a workaholic who though relaxation was for the lazy amongst us!! Learn to love yourself and the courage will come.
All my love and a big hug - sending you all my healing thoughts love T xxx
The treatment goals for patients with metastatic disease are to alleviate symptoms or to extend life. For DCIS the treatment goals are to reduce the risk of recurrence, especially recurrence of invasive cancer, to a level that is reasonable compared to the risks of treatment.
Support and love to all - LB, x
Good morning folks, the snow is beginning to fall here and I am sat at work wondering what has happened to my life in the last 2 months. I come to work so everything is normal on the outside, I am lucky DCIS found because of something else, WLE done and all clear and I start radio in 2 weeks but when did all this take over my life. The snow makes everything look clean and nice so on that note be nice to yourselfs, give yourselfs a break you are allowed to have bad days and days when you just want to scream and then they are days like today when the world looks clean and ready to start again
Hi Deb
It was nice to read your post Im due to have WLE this wednesday today i’m very scared and know the worse will be the waiting to see if they get clear margins, i have found myself concentrating on the snow, your right it does make everything clean and nice. I seem to have lost the the last 4 weeks evrything moves so quickly from diagnosis to blood tests xrays and mri now surgery.
Hi Yes it seems to take over your life and I have to say over the last 2 months if things could have got in the way they have, I had 2 biopsies done and they were not happy with one so that had to be redone, then there was a problem with the surgery results so I had to wait another week for them, but here I am CT scan done, all marked up and ready for radiotherapy. I came back to work quickly because I didnt want cancer to be the driver in my life, I am lucky I am the boss in my department so if I have a bad day I go home but all in all we are getting through this OK. Looking forward to the middle of Feb when the treatment is all finished and then I am hoping I will just be me again. I will keep my fingers and toes crossed on Wed, be positive and fill the time between surgery and the results doing things you enjoy and want to do, I found myself going to the cinema a lot think I became addicted to the popcorn lol. Take care xxx
Well I have had my op today am at home and not to uncomfortable, I am very shocked and upset at how much smaller my breast looks was told last week dcis was just over 3cm, I didnt realise that it would be that noticable.
I’m now one of the ladies in waiting for results on 31st. If i don’t get clear margin and have to have 2nd op there will be nothing left of my booby. On the paper work i have it says chemo rads and hormones to follow. I haven’t been told the grade or anything yet so i will ask when i go for results.
I’m not one for asking to many questions as i’m frightened of what they will tell, so far i’ve gone from 5mm to 3.5cm and that was frightening enough.
Good morning, in a bra I look the same but without yes one breast does look different to the other so when finished treatment I shall just treat myself to some new sexy feminine bras so I feel I llok good lol. I have to be honest I have been a bit of an ostrich and kept my head in the sand, thinking they will tell me what I need to know, so questions have come hard to me and I am never sure what I want to know. I will keep my fingers crossed that you get a really good result. I had high grade but becaues the margins were clear I am moving onto radiotherapy. But lets all be positive stage one over and already to move onto stage 2. Welcome to stage 2