After one year lurking in the background I finally wanted to say hello and thank you to all on here! I was diagnosed in July last year with advanced ovarian cancer I am treatable but not curable. After a mind blowing year of tough treatment and still on maintenance treatment I wanted to say how I have found you guys an amazing guide to hope/help/laughter and how living with cancer is not an end to life but a beginning of a new time in my life. You don’t know me but I really feel like I know all of you by reading the posts daily ,reading of how to be practical, how to be angry, how to laugh and not to be ashamed to cry or be afraid. You think your just posting “stuff” or replying to people but your more than that! Those of us unable to immediately join through fear or not accepting things or shyness are here watching and reading and guys it’s amazing thank you x x
Lovely post! 
Hello Hnickkie and a very warm welcome from another previous lurker, I think a lot of us were, I only joined the forum as I saw a post about a local girl. but so glad that I did, I see you've met some of the girls, who are the majority on here but there are a few of us guys, and it's nice to meet you, WOW that's amazing you have been following the posts for a year, I'm guessing your a dog lover as your first post on the forum to Candysmum was dog related and of course your furry friend Toby. a few of us have pets, which are very important to us, I'm glad you decided to join and look forward to getting to know you, here's my furry friend.
Eddie 
