Just to add my thanks to the list. This site is a lifeline for me and the support, information and shared experience have helped me through those dark times.
Have a very happy Christmas everyone, and a helathy new year too.
Debbie x
Yes, thanks to you all! Have a good Christmas xx
Thanks from me as well! Was so glad I found the this forum! It answered so many questions for me, lessened a lot of fears and really did help me cope.
The friends I made on here were as real as my other friends and I was fortunate to meet so many of you in the “real world” lol
Lately I’ve been a bit of an occasional lurker.
A Very Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthier New Year to everyone,
Margaret x x x xx
Thank you
Julie xxx
Hi all
Can I just reiterate what Lucy has said earlier, many, many thanks on behalf of all the team here for your kind words, they are very much appreciated by us all.
The Facilitating team will be dipping in and out of the forums throughout the Christmas period, so will be there if anyone needs pointing to some extra support.
Here’s also an extract from the Helpline blog on this website regarding the helpline Christmas opening hours:
“Over Christmas, our Helpline 0808 800 6000 will be closed on the bank holidays, and closed on Saturday 24th and 31st December, but otherwise we will be open as usual. Our website and chat rooms are available 24 hours a day 7 days a week”.
We wish you all a very happy and peaceful Christmas and New Year.
Best wishes,
Jo, Facilitator
Ditto, ditto, ditto.
I started reading and posting on the forums just over a year ago when i found my lump and a year ago today I had my operation. It’s been a really hard and frightening year and one I sincerely hope I never have to repeat, but I can honestly say that BCC made it a whole lot easier.
I’ve made so many friends here, some of whom I’ve met, laughed with, drunk coffee and wine with, done the scenic tour of Reading with, been very silly on a white swan pedallo at Warwick Castle with - and some I’ve “only” chatted with online. They’ve all been there to help me in my bad times, listen to me moan and smile with me in my good times.
Without this website and the wonderful staff who run it I don’t think I’d have got through the year as well as I did (and I’m darned sure my family and home life would have suffered as a result!)
So a mssive thank you to BCC and everyone who works for and supports it, and to all you wonderful forumites.
With love and prayers for us all,
Jane and family xxx
What I love about this site is that if you decide to leave then further down the line you have a wobble, it’s easy to come back. The posters on here will always give you a welcome and help you to get back on track again. That’s why these forums are such a hugely valuable resource for anyone who is diagnosed with this disease. Quite simply, when I was diagnosed in 2006 I looked at different BC sites and this one looked the most user friendly and welcoming. I don’t know what I would have done without it, especially when I had insomnia. I sometimes feel as if I have played out 5 years of my life on here lol!
A very Merry Christmas to one and all, here’s hoping for a bright and positive future in 2012.
Just want to add my thanks to all at BCC.
Throughout the past year I have to say THE VERY BEST ADVICE I have been given was to sign in to the BCC forums.
Thank you Thank you Thank you BCC and all the “posters”
XX
I was dx over three and a half years ago and my BCN suggested I join this forum. In the early days I was an avid poster who settled into a chemo thread, communicating with other ladies who were undergoing similar treatment. I became particularly friendly with a lady in Brighton called Gill who was having the same chemo. When Gill died the following year I was devastated, and came back to the boards for support. Again, last year I lost another friend to BC and the boards were there to give me support.
Three and half years post dx, and feeling well, and getting on with my life, I rarely come to these boards other than to give support occasionally. There must be many like me, who are out there getting on with their lives, who owe BCC a huge ‘THANK YOU’ for seeing them through the most difficult of times.
THANK YOU
Mal
I have to say that this forum was a hold on sanity for me throughout the diagnosis and follow on from that. I gained so much support and information from the people on here, I don’t know how I’d have coped without. Unfortunately a close friend has also just been diagnosed with BC, so one of the first things I suggested was to sign up to this site.
I never thought I would use these forums but they have been a lifeline during Chemo.
Thanks girls
Cackles
…and a special thanks on behalf of those that post rarely or not at all, but who get so much reassurance from BCC. For myself, the site has helped me put lots of things into perspective.
Happy new year to everyone 
It’s taken me a while to find this thread, cause I don’t visit here so often these days, but there have been times when I’ve been on here several times every day… had mad conversations which have made me laugh out loud instead of crying… found out so many useful bits of information and been supported by so many fab people. Thank you BCC for making it possible. Thank you, ladies, for keeping me company during some very, very difficult times… As i head back towards NED, these threads are kind of addictive, in a good way… thanks… diolch… Jane