Hi all
I don’t post on here very regularly now, though I do still come on and read your posts - and occasionally offer advice where I think I can be of help.
I guess I just wanted to say a huge thank you to all the people who got me where I am today. I used this site on a daily (or should that be hourly!!) basis when I was first dx, and all the way through chemo/rads - and the advice I got was invaluable.
It is now coming up to 10 months since I was dx (1st Nov '07) - I’ve been through the surgery, 7 x chemo , 20 x rads and am currently approaching 4 of (hopefully) 17 Herceptins.
Life is just beginning to return to some sort of normality - not the normality I knew before, (don’t think that will ever return lol). I am officially signed off the sick as of Monday 28th August and am starting a new job. I was previously employed with the NHS Trust that treated me, as a HR Project Manager - this was a fixed term job for 12 months - and as I only managed to work 2 months of the 12, they (understandably lol) didn’t renew my contract. So as of tomorrow I am going into the world of publishing, as the prospective editor of a specialist forestry magazine ( now there’s a career change for ya!)
I suppose I just wanted to let those of you still going through treatment know that there is light at the end of the tunnel (though it seems like a bloody long tunnel sometimes!).
Don’t get me wrong, I still have my ‘off’ moments - I don’t have the best of prognosis in terms of recurrence (in fact waiting for bone scan at moment following constant back pain for 6 weeks) but for the most part I feel reasonably well, still get tired very easily, but in the main ready to join the human race again.
So … look out world - here I come
and good luck to the rest of you!!
Magz x