A Year On

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So today is exactly one year since my diagnosis of Inflammatory Breast Cancer. On that day I thought that my world had ended and that I was leaving my husband without a wife and my son without a mother. Fast forward to now and after neo-adjunctive chemo, 4 cases of neutropenic sepsis, mastectomy and radiotherapy, life is good and in the words of the surgeon I am cancer free . 
I still have to wait for TRAM reconstruction at the end of the year as surgeon won’t do it till a full year after radiotherapy has finished , but even though I’m not happy about the wait I’ll put up with it. 
I’m waiting for a physio appointment to try and deal with the cording I have and the tightness around the mastectomy and ANC site but as this seems to be taking a while to arrange have started swimming for an hour each day in the hopes that it will help. 
This forum has helped me keep my sanity, show me that I wasn’t alone with what was happening and has given great advice with how to deal with what was going on - so thank you everyone!