Fed up of being strong

Hi and welcome to the online community and I'm very sorry to see you here, no one joins us from choice but through necessity but all are welcome and I'm pleased that you felt you could reach out to us.

This is a safe place to come to at anytime for a chat or to let off steam or simply have a rant we all do it and we all understand the need to do it.

Please be assured that this is nothing like Facebook we come together and openly discuss problems in one or more of the many groups we have and I would like to invite you to join our Breast cancer forum group and introduce yourself to the many members in this group who are all very supportive to each other and give lots of help, support and advice to each other and you will find it's a very active group made up with people in different stages to you and can help you in your journey.

You've had the good news and the bad news but I'm pleased to say that I've got some good news for you, this time when you have your surgery you will have the members all routing for you and wishing you well 

It's good that you given us your profile and no it's not too long everything in it helps the other members to relate to you.

I see from your profile page that in a month's time you're off on holiday and looking forward to some swimming in the warm sea what a wonderful thing to look forward to and I believe the members of the breast group will be very interested in this and would welcome the odd photograph or two. I alsio see that you've managed out for some retail therapy and bought items for the holiday this is a great step forward and I hope you enjoyed it.

With the breast group the members are about at some very strange times and come on here looking for a chat and I'm sure you be made very welcome. You can join in discussions, ask questions about anything you want they don't mind they talk about everything under the sun so why not pop along to the group and introduce yourself.

When you join the group make sure you alter your membership settings so that you receive every notification, you don't want to be left out and not be able to join in.

If you need any help with the site just give us a shout out and someone will help you out.

You've not just joined the online community you've become part of the Mac family and this opens up many doors for you we have trained advisers who can help with financial, information and support, benefits and energy with the added bonus you can dial this number 

0808 808 0000

and speak to real person who will listen to you, yes I did say listen to you, and give you help if you need it. If you got a medical problem on the same number you can speak to one of the nurses and ask anything you want the lines are open 7 days a week 365 days a year and that includes weekends and bank holiday between 8 am and 8 pm.

You can also post any questions you may have on our Ask a Nurse page and one of the nurses will come back to you usually within two working days, we also have many other experts you can ask questions of and you can find them in our Ask an Expert group page.

As I said we are are nothing like Facebook we are a group of people just like you who care and support each other through the good and bad times, we laugh with each other we cry with each other.

Hope I've not oversold our community and that you settle in to the group with ease.

Remember this is the place to come to when you're down and need a good old moan no one judges here we just support and help each other.

Welcome to your new extended Mac family. 

Ian