Helen L

  • OMG! Here we go! (No.3)

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Hi Guys

    I am now home after having my double mastectomy last Wednesday.  I can honestly say (especially for those out there facing the same thing) it was not as bad as I imagined.  Op on Wednesday home by Friday evening after drains were taken out (not painful at all, but just a weird sensation) and am finding that I do get tired after a few hours, so a good excuse for a lie-down!  My chest is not painful at all, just a…

  • OMG! Here we go! (No.2)

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Hi Guys

    Just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyones comments to my first 'blog'.  Its wonderful to know that so many people are sending me good wishes and that I am not the only person going through this. 

    Trying to get organised for next week - went shopping for 'button-front' pj's etc for the hospital and treated myself to a few extras also.  Gary my Hubbie has a golf break with his buddies…

  • OMG! Here we go!

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Hi everyone, have just joined as I thought it would help to put things down on paper.

    Started a few weeks ago, thinking I had a lump in my left breast.  My Mum had breast cancer 27 years ago at the age of 35 and had to have a left breast mastectomy (and is still here to tell the tale).  On being referred by my GP, discovered nothing on my left but two tumours on my right, which after biopsies, came back as positive - I…