Just thought I'd share my experience - it helps to write it down. I was diagnosed with DCIS following a routine mammogram in March and had a lumpectomy on 25 March - the results were good thankfully, and was waiting for radiotherapy start date (luckily I am covered by insurance through work so all this happened very quickly).
Then on 23 April, without any warning, my wonderful husband had a massive heart attack - he was on life support for 4 days but had sustained massive brain damage and we had to turn the machine off and he passed away on 27 April - he was only 59 and he was my world.
My rads were due to start on 29 April but I basically told them to poke it - just couldn't comtemplate that then. We had the funeral on 10 May and I had my initial CT scan booked for 13 May - got a phone call that morning to say the CT scanner had broken, so rescheduled for 16 May! In the meantime my wound from the op wasn't healing properly, still leaking so I'd been seeing the surgeon during this time as well. I finally had the CT scan on 16 May, all OK, lovely tattoos and rads due to start on 20 May which I was all psyched up for - then immediately after the scan saw the surgeon re the wound ..... he said he wasn't happy with it and to postpone the rads for at least another two weeks so early to mid June! You couln't make it up could you ..... I am sooooo fed up with everything and not sure how much more I can take ..........
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