Hello All,
Wherever you are up to in your diagnosis and treatment, or if you’re waiting anxiously for the next result or appointment, I wish you well.
Is anyone else finding the New Year period particularly hard? I feel far more sorrowful than I have done at other points since my diagnosis in October, including Christmas. It might be because reality will soon resume after the holiday period. I’m also due to have a mastectomy in second half of January and am finding it strange to contemplate this change to my body (and all that will follow on). I also find myself thinking back to the start of 2022, when I was looking forward to the year ahead with not a thought of what it would bring. Makes me sad for all those people for whom life will be changed in 2023.
I’m doing lots of nice things to keep myself occupied, and am able to enjoy them, but I never really manage to forget. I’m sure these feelings will pass and that I’ll feel more purposeful when January fully kicks in, but wondered if these feelings of New Year sadness chime with anyone else.
Dunnock xx
Your post resonates so much. I’m in the middle of my own bc with a whole load of issues with elderly parents also and wondering what this next year will bring.
If I’d have known the diagnosis and treatment ahead of me at the start of 2022 I’d have run for the hills and thought there would be no chance I’d do it! Yet when faced with it I got through it like we do and I’m blooming chuffed with myself! I am awaiting last set of results just now which has been particularly hard over Christmas and now another wait over New Year. I’ve already had my mastectomy carried out and found the decisions surrounding that so, so hard at the time. I can honestly say hand on heart that I’m ok with the mastectomy and implant nearly three months down the line. It looks pretty good! The mastectomy was in no way as bad as I anticipated and I had no complications, maybe I was lucky but that might be your experience too. Crossing my fingers for you too xx
Hoping 2023 brings good things for us all.
Hugs and raising a glass to all those who are currently on their own bc journey and those who will be affected in the year to come. Here’s to great care and fabulous treatment!! x
This really resonates with me, Dunnock. A lot of my friends are dressing up, drinking champagne, going to special events and I’m sitting at home contemplating my surgery in January, and the aftermath. It could not be more different than New Year’s Eve last year when I was toasting in 2022 with great optimism, and my only dilemma was which dress to wear!
All we can hope for is that our respective treatments go well in 2023, we face everything with courage and strength, and we are in a better place this time next year.