Thinking about cancer daily

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Hi..everyone. I was diagnosised with cancer in both breasts in Aug 2019..had bilateral lumpectomies and 20 sessions of radiotheraphy.

Everyday I think about cancer..in 1 way or another. I feel that I am looking at thinks in a half glass empty rather than half full. I have just had cellulitis in 1 boob...awaiting another mammogram to check. X

  • I have been diagnosed just this month and it's all I think about. I'm glad I finish work tomorrow as I've started to make silly little mistakes, luckily nothing that can't be put right!!

    A work colleague said that I am a glass half full person, but that I am well aware that there may be a crack in the glass!!! I think it was a compliment GrinGrin

    Sarah.... Keep looking forward Two heartsCherry blossom

  • Hi

    I was diagnosed in June 2017 and for a long time, I was the same.  It was a couple of years later when I was on holiday that I suddenly realised that I hadn't thought about having had cancer for a couple of days.  After my second annual mammogram I started to feel a little 'safer' that it wasn't coming back.  But my breast had healed and I had no issues, so I think that for you, as you have cellulitis in one boob, you're getting that reminder and therefore your treatment's not finished is it? 

    Hopefully you will find, like me, that over time you'll stop thinking about it day in, day out and find something that is a great distraction for you from thinking about it (for instance, when I was on holiday,  I was a  world away from the normal life - although this wouldn't now be so easy due to Covid travel restrictions), but it will come eventually for you.  Once you're healed and you get further away from the treatment time wise, the fear of what you've been through /recurrence will gradually ease.

    Kindest wishes, Lesley

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