Telgirls dance with cance.....8

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FormerMember

6 Nov 2009

Hi Everyone,

Firstly great news about Andrew...way to go hun.

Just got back from hospital and the op is all done, thought I had got my head round the mastectomy...how stupid of me.

Spent this morning sitting on the floor in the shower room in the hospital sobbing my heart out. When the nurse came round to change my dressing ready to go home she asked if I wanted to look at the op site and again sobbing began, I couldnt do it, couldnt bring myself to look because then it would be real and I would then know that its not all a mistake and i have got cancer, talk about denial.

My family have been brilliant all fussing around asking me if I need anything and all the time I am standing trying to hide the missing part of myself. I have to wait till next week to find out the results of this stage and then find out when the chemo starts. This all seems too much to handle at the moment it reels raw like the op site and I cannot find a positive slant to put on it at the moment. Sobbing starting again so going now, sorry for such a miserable blog.

take care everyone love Terri xxx

FormerMember over 15 years ago

Hi Terri, as Andrew says we are all here for you at this emotional time.

take care

Tony x
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KateG over 15 years ago

Hi Terri,

It is every woman's worst nightmare and you are perfectly entitled to bawl your eyes out and feel sorry for yourself. However, looking on the positive - the operation also got the b*stard out of you and the other treatment will be belt and braces action to keep it away.

Cyber Hugs,

KateG
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FormerMember over 15 years ago

Thinking about you xx
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FormerMember over 15 years ago

Hello

I too felt like you after my masectomy to my left breast. I'm very big busted, and felt very stange at first, but I am over it now I think. I am 67 so as you get older the way you look isn't that important, although I do like good clothes and try and look after myself.

After my consultants visit last Friday I was told the Cancer had been completely removed, and it was the most wonderful feeling to hear that news, so the loss of a boob didn't seem to matter. I have to take the drug 'Femara' for five years, and will have to have three weeks radiotherapy, which I've looked on the web about the side effects, and it doesn't look much fun, but everyone is different and I hope I can cope with it.

Please let me know how you are? You can e-mail me on chris.whitmore@hotmail.co.uk if you want to.

All the best

CHRIS -
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