When treatment has finished

Hi Annie1974 welcome to the forum. Maggie,s centres are a blessing for lots  of folks and glad that you have one nearby you to access. I live in the area that the founder of the Maggies Centres hailed from but we don't have a Maggies Centre but an excellent  MacMillan Center which like the one you have available has also been a blessing for me. When I was at the point you are at in my treatment journey I popped in to speak to the lady who runs the centre, had a cry and a lovely cup of tea and left with a paper by Dr Peter Harvey entitled "When the Treatment finishes " What next".  I read it and wow it explained exactly how I was feeling and more importantly why. 

So what all of the above got to do with you I hear you ask ? Well if you feel able to access this paper on the internet,  have a read, I seem to have lost my link to this which I could have inserted for you and see if how you are feeling and thinking just now is in  that paper. Ill be surprised if its not . Let me know what you think.?

Best wishes xxx   

Thanks so much Gail x

• Hi Annie I feel the same love just finished 6 weeks of chemo /radiotherapy…. And feel a bit lost awaiting scan next week and then oncologist meet in January …. Its really strange after being at the hospital every day to nothing for awhile …. I’ve felt quite emotional …. X

I had an op last September then 6 weeks of radiotherapy in December/January.  5 months of chemo till September and another operation in November next scan not till end of jan and feel scared and in limbo

I think we all can understand the in limbo scaredness lovely , it comes with the cancer diagnosis doesn’t it , sending hugs x

Hi,, I thought I finished my treatment back in November 2022, but but consultant kindly reminded me that that wasn’t the case,, I didn’t finish my treatment until March 2023 after finishing my herceptin injections…. I now feel totally lost,  emotionally drained and cross with how much my body has changed since going through the treatment,, I keep reminding myself that I’m still here, I’m cancer clear,,, I find it really emotional talking about how my bodies been affected..