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I am new on here and am hoping that by talking to others i may be able to get some help. I was diagnosed with breast cancer at the end of october, I then went on to have a masectomy in the middle of december. I was very lucky to have an immediate reconstruction using my own tummy. Unfortunately this means alot longer recovery time as i have two areas that need time to heal. It has been a complicated recovery so far, A few weeks ago both wound sites got infected and both wound sites...
Little update of what happened, even though i still dont know details.
Lots of concern in me as first big batch of cancer n chemo i coped fine with, this second lot has taken my year away.
In Dec they wanted to give me 5fu for the secondary sore breast that turned up after bowel shrunk. So couldnt get my stoma reversal or away from chemo but didnt want the full breast cancer loose hair chemo i wanted to go back on the 5fu that helped kicked the original tumour stuff. So 8wks of chemo got organised...
Yesterday was the day we found out if Dad could have chemo. I'll be honest...I had not seen Dad for a couple of days as I have a really bad cold so been trying to stay away (the hardest thing EVER as seen him every single day since NYE) and it sort of felt like all of this wasn't happening. Of course I've spoken to him on the phone about 3 or 4 times a day and text him but it didn't feel like yesterday was happening really. But when I DID sit & think about it I thought the worst (as you...
Hi,
I've decided my OCD can't cope with the lack of control on this blog, so we are moving house. :)
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Well here I am. Still here. Still putting one foot in front of the other. One Day at a Time, and all that entails. Next week it will be 8 months since my lovely husband died. And if I look back at my blog posts and at my journal, I can see I am not in the same place I was. I remember people on this site telling me I wouldn't look at things the same in the future, that there was a future, that the spaces between the pain get further apart, that one learns how to manage. And that is true. That searing...
