I received my diagnosis yesterday after a call back mammogram, ultrasound and biopsy. The
Wait was the most difficult as I didn’t want to tell many people until I knew for sure and all my markers etc… were boarder line.
Also my husband was diagnosed with AML (leukaemia) in April and has just finished treatment in September and going back to work. The day I had my call back.
I am taking it one appointment at a time and due to the past experiences this year know it isn’t a linear line.
So I don’t know if the diagnosis hasn’t sunk in or I am just taking it in my stride slightly, because I’ve spent so many days with him in treatment or hospital admissions and appointments.
I’m making the most of the days I can before treatment starts to make memories to look back on. Riding the waves as best as I can.
I have an MRI on Wednesday next week and then awaiting an appointment to discuss treatment.
Hi Hen, I am sorry to hear your diagnosis. It is really a hard time for waiting the result. I am facing the same at the moment. Wish you all the best in your treatment and take care
That’s bad timing. How unfair that you and your husband have had cancer diagnoses at the same time. The trouble is I thought I would live forever when I was younger and then got a lump in my breast age 47 and was never the same again. 19 years after my first diagnosis I found another lump in the same left breast so I have been back for a mastectomy, reconstruction and years of oestrogen inhibitor drugs.
Sometimes I think it is not fair and then I think nobody comes out of life alive. If it’s not cancer it will be heart disease or dementia or a broken hip or all three. My mum has just died aged 97 and I can’t say her life was a bundle of joy. I tried my best but old age is not for the faint hearted. Now age 70 I keep busy, eat well, exercise and raise money for charity. Luckily I can afford to live in a nice house and run a car. I think I could have retired on medical grounds at some point but work kept me going. It’s hard with a new diagnosis to think of making decisions but I realised life wasn’t forever and I did not want to waste what I had.
As long as it is tolerable (no excessive pain, lethargy, depression) I intend to enjoy myself as much as possible and laugh at my more embarrassing moments. There are many of these…
