Do you remember when ...........

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Hi everyone, I’ve never posted before but have been a constant browser since diagnosed last June and feel I know some of you ! Was just thinking about before cancer …and thought these may ring true with you all -

Do you remember when –

  1. You thought cancer was something that other people got
  2. You didn’t know there was different types of breast cancer
  3. You had no idea what an ‘oncologist’ studied
  4. You’d never even heard of tamoxifen
  5. You’d only heard ‘herceptin’ mentioned on the news
  6. You thought there was one type of chemotherapy !
  7. You thought you’d live forever !
  8. You didn’t break down in tears when looking at your children wondering whether you’ll be at their wedding
  9. Your friends didn’t annoy you making ‘mountains out of mole hills’
  10. People didn’t say to you – be positive
  11. When you heard ‘you might get run over by a bus tomorrow’ it didn’t grate on your nerves
  12. No one commented on you looking well, even though you don’t !
  13. You thought that once all the treatment was over you could put it behind you and never think about it again !
  14. The nurses in the hospital know you by sight !
  15. Nausea was something you got after a ‘good night out’ on the town
  16. When you got a pain anywhere you didn’t automatically think of the worst !
  17. A bad hair day was getting caught in a rain shower on the way to work and having kink’s in your hair all day or worse your GHD’s were on the blink !
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Lizzy
I love this - it just sums it all up so well.

MuddyXX

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18 Constipation was never mentioned just suffered.

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  1. When you were dignfied and would never dream of letting any Tom Dick or Harry have a look and a prod at your boobs.
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20: You didn’t covet your pets long luscious hair

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Brilliant BTW. I know when I actually look OK because people say “I thought you were supposed to be doing chemo”. That one does make me smile.

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  1. When you drove past the Christie hospital and stared, hoping you’d never have to go inside. Now it’s second home.
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Oops, meant 21.

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22.when statistics were just a boring thing to flick over in the Newspaper

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23, you didn’t know the difference between radiotherapy and chemotherapy

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  1. the lads at work didn’t cop a furtive look at your chest to work out if a. you were minus a whole boob and b. could they work out which one it was (in my case they must still be wondering cos I had WLE and have never told them it was just the lump that got howked out!)
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  1. The only time you’d ever worn a wig was to a fancy dress party
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  1. You didn’t realise how beautiful you are until you loose your eyebrows and eyelashes - which make loose your facial identity
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  1. You didn’t realise how good in you looked in hats and scarves.
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28.When you didn’t want to grow old - now you can’t wait!

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  1. You could walk round the lingerie dept. in M&S without shedding a tear.
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  1. You could plan hols without worrying about insurance that covers cancer patients, oh and hot flushes.
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  1. You could never have imagined that some of the most caring and supportive friends you would ever make you would meet on an internet site.
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Seabird, I was thinking on the same lines.
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32. When you had no probs. renewing you life insurance and did not worry about getting another mortgage.

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33 - when you never thought you would say thanks to ppl who put you in pain!