Exactly a year ago today I found the lump that began this year of unchosen adventure in the world of breast cancer. I am fortunate, my treatment seems to have been successful and next week I will have my six-month post-operative check. It is a funny feeling - good but wierd - and what a lot has happened in that year.
Bizarrely - but somehow rightly - this is the only place in the whole wide world I feel I can tell people this. This is a special place, peopled by special people, sharing the lows and very lows, as well as the smiles and funny bits of b.c. and its impact on our lives.
Now and then I read a post from someone just starting out, or who is steeling her(him)self to clamber over the various hurdles on this long distance path, and find I remember how I felt… fear, bewilderment, whatever. None of them is me, their stories are as unique and lovely as they are, but there is a sense of empathy.
Over the last year I have been blessed to meet in real life and online such amazing people and I guess as I reach this mini-milestone I just wanted to share the moment.
Whether you’re a terrifed newbie, a stoic slogger through of treatment, or one of the many F&F who use these forums, I hope, and because it’s my thing, I pray, that you will find the love and support you seek from the wonderful people who post here.
One year on (official “cansiversary” in a fortnight)… thank you fellow travellers and every good wish for your ‘onward journeys’
Thank you 
What a lovely post RevCat. Well done you and lots of kind thoughts to you.
x
Lynn
It was ayear ago I went for a routine mammogram to be recalled for a core biopsy, to be told they were 99% sure this was BC.
All this was 4 days before I was due to go on holiday for a month!Total shock, this wasn`t happening to me!!
They assured me that I could go and have the surgery when I returned.
This I did,4 days later, not knowing how or what I had packed, my OH and I set off for the airport only for me to arrive in my slippers!!
It has been an eventful year to say the least! I had the op begining of November, had radiotherapy in December. Driving myself through snow everyday to the hospital for 3 weeks!
It does get better,I am determined to make the most everything I can.
Going away again next week with most of my family,
Have the 1 year mammogram (fingers crossed) when I get back.
Good luck to everyone going through this.
xx
Hi Mazabel, hope all you have a lovely holiday this summer and all is well when you return, leading on into a fulfilling future.
I too am ‘one year on’! I can’t believe all that has taken place in the last year and now that surgery, chemo, rads are all behind me I am trying to move on with the ‘new me’! I am still on Herceptin and Letrozole but manage these reasonably well. I am just so glad to be at this side. I am back at work full time and have been for the last 2/3 months. I had my annual review last month, brought forward a couple of weeks due to some concerns I had. All unfounded I can report! All tests done and showed a cyst and nothing more sinister. I wish you all good health and a welcome recovery and return to what I call my ‘new normality’! J. ps hair coming along nicely and nearly ready for the unveiling!!!
Hi there, I too am one year on now, noting the anniversaries of recall after mammogram, biopsy results, surgery, and now the first annual review and mammogram. Clear mammogram and examination, surgeon having discussion with radiologist as to whether I should have MRI as well, as DCIS around actual cancer was not visible on original mammography. I am really pleased that it is being discussed, so definitely celebrating. Quietly!
Hi
Good post Revcat. I recieved my “inconclusive” biopsy results today(last year) & then agreed to have what was my first WLE; so glad I did as I had DCIS needed 2nd op for clear margins & 3 weeks rads last March.
It all seemed like a whirlwind at the time; had clinic appointment last Friday all well apart from some nerve pain & stiff chest muscle but getting there.
Waiting first annual mammo early/mid October bit worried since they found something last time; but hey onwards & upwards.
Take care to everyone still on their treatment & those of us who have come out the other end.