I read this thread and feel for you all so much.
I was diagnosed in Oct 2005. always feared this disease as lost friends and mum to it. then wham i had it. did 2 ops and chemo. However i wanted to post and say there is LIFE after this. I have had many scares probably still will have but i am enjoying life just now and regaining confidence in my body be it slowly.
Hugs to you all
Rxx
Hi R
have folllowed your posts round the forum - was dx in 2007 - had op, chemo and rads, trying for herceptin at mo, though heart not brilliant as you may have seen - sill have the odd worry (too many if i’m honest) but still hoping to be in a place soon where I can see that there is LIFE after BC.
good luck to you - hope to be chatting many years to come !
Margaret x
CAZ08
Hello all,
Just been diagnosed with BC on Monday 2nd June, going for my POA tomorrow, still feel so shocked and this is not happening to me!!!.
Went to my doctors in Nov.07 with this lump, already had a cyst from 03 so he thought it was the same one and sent me home, tried to bring my 3 yearly mammogram forward as I knew something was amiss but no appoinments available, fortunatly my lump is quite slow growing so I have been lucky in some respect.
My Onc. says my lump is very small 1’’ but feels like a football to me!, he says the op should go well and he will take 2 lymph nodes as a precaution, will find out tomorrow what treatment I will have, I hope and pray no Chemo, I am very fond of my hair!!!.
Read so many of your letters, laughed at some… cried at some …but most of all really appreciated all your comments and support of each other at this awfull time.
CAZ
I was diagnosed on 30th April and decided fairly quickly to regard it as a life sentence rather than a death sentence. Things, and our attitude to things undoubtedly change, but it is good to see a post from someone on the other side, having finished treatment as I look into the dark tunnel of 5 more chemos.
Kinden
x
Hi
I just wanted to echo what liverbird has said, I am no where near as far down the line you, only diagnosed last September, but had two ops, 6 chemos, 20 rads and 2 herceptins and went into early menopause… still have aches and pains, still had odd worry now and then that some pain might be more serious, but i have to say that life has seriously improved one hundred per cent from the days i was newly diagnosed and was going through chemo… i felt so rough with it… and looked and felt hideous… now i’ve got about 2 cm of hair back but the best of all…i am going out again, feeling happier, seeing friends and BC is not the only thing I think about anymore. I feel as if I have something of my life back, it has changed undoubtedly and no doubt i’ll still be on here from time to time with my woes, the support here has been unbelievable… i just wanted to say to anyone going through this right now, hang in there, count off those chemos, the bad days do pass, you do get good days… you WILL get your life back. Sending out much love and strength to everyone in this situation. Carrie xx
Thanks for that Carrie,
I was just sitting here thinking “what on earth am I going to do once treatment is over”?- In the worst bit of the final chemo cycle. I would be happy to have my old life back but know that it isn’t going to happen because of all the experiences I have gone through since diagnosis. It certainly seems a long slog…though lots of people keep telling me that it has gone really fast! Probably 'cos they 're still in “real life” mode!!!
Hair just a bit shorter than yours and still need to do rads/her/tam yet but I am glad to hear from you just at this moment.
Love Kay x