This time last year I was just preparing for my second op - it was needed to acheive a wide margin and to hopefully close the gap in my wound which had been leaking serous fluid since my first op a month before. I was also trying to get my head around the need for chemo and radio as follow in treatments. I really had no idea what the journey ahead would be like. There were lots of silent tears in bed at night and in the morning....
But here I am.... almost 14 months after diagnosis and whilst I'm still taking painkillers, I have another 10 Herceptin treatments to go (and muga scans of course) and 5 - 10 years of tamoxifen ahead.... I am starting to feel normal again.
My finger and toe nails have almost all grown back (two still need some time before they will look normal). My hair is extremely short but still seems to be growing. Chemo brain has almost left me and my energy seems to be returning slowly but surely (except for the day after the Herceptin treatment).
I am starting to crack on with my dissertation (which despite several attempts was largely put aside for the last 9 months) and I've started looking for work (as savings are running low).
To top it all - a mamogram that I had a few weeks ago (the first since my diagnosis) came back with no evidence of cancer. Woohoo!!!!
Life is good.... or at least I feel like it is going to be good again.
Noj x
