Hi All
I dont write here very often now, altho I still come on for a look.
I just wanted to write, especially for those just beginning their journey, that there is life after bc.
I was dx a year ago, invasive, grade 3, ductal ca - had chemo, mastectomy and rads. It has been a hard slog of a year, but I now feel I have got thro and am smiling again. I have a new zest for life now, hugely due to a wonderful psychologist who I have been seeing for several months - not only about the bc but other issues in my life. I have learned a new way of thinking and appreciating - and am just loving life now.
Dont get me wrong - my treatment is not finished - will have other breast removed preventatively beginning of next year and have bilateral recon at same time, and am still awaiting gene test, but I know I can now handle whatever life throws at me.
I have not forgotten the journey I have been on, and how endless that journey seems at the beginning, but I just wanted to give a bit of hope to you ladies out there who think this road will never end - it will. If you need to seek help to get you thro this journey, then go get it - do whatever it takes - but keep fighting and pushing yourselves. Take up new hobbies - I have taken up hillwalking - which is something I have been meaning to do for years - but at last I have started - and oh how liberating it feels.
I intend to try new things in life and just grab it by both hands and enjoy it.
I will stop rambling on - all I want to say is YOU WILL GET THERE - honest you will. When I think back to where I was a year ago last Sunday, newly dx, and where I am now - I would have never believed it.
Stay strong girls, keep fighting, and live your lives
Love and hugs to you all
F
xxx