Hi, I'm 2 years post treatment. I met a bunch of younger women from the Manchester area at the BCC younger women's forum, after my treatment had finished. We've stayed friends and have a closed Facebook group. From chatting to each other it became abundantly clear that there was a gap in the help given to younger women by the local hospitals. None of us had been linked in with other young women in the area who were going through what we were at the time. However, when we met after treatment we soon realised that we'd only been a ten minute drive away from each other and was going through the same thing at the same time. How different it would have been to be Linked with each other, and others, earlier, rather than feeling so isolated as the odd one out amongst the older ladies in the waiting room. We've just set up a facebook page called "manchester younger women's breast cancer network", which we hope will serve to show local girls that they are not alone or freakoids or isolated, and that there are other young women going through this, living round the corner, right now. It's new, there's not many people on it, but it's got to start somewhere. Come join us if you want xxx
