Hello. I coped well with a biopsy, a lumpectomy without a diagnosis and later operation to remove lymph nodes which were clear. radiotherapy followed. All this happened during lockdown. The medical staff were amazing and I didn’t cry once. Now that I have been given the all clear until a mammogram next Spring and continue taking Letrozole I feel awful. I’m in my seventies and live alone. I have a great niece who lives 4 miles away and I have friends on the phone but I feel totally isolated. Over the weekend I couldn’t stop crying. I can’t live like this. my prognosis is good. I had thyroid cancer 50 years ago and have many other chronic problems. I look very well and I am happy to be alive but I am not coping.
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