Family

HelloLeglessghirl We hope you will feel you can chat on these threads. No one minds what you say....whether you are angry, sad, have questions, just need to express your thoughts. Someone will usually be about to simply listen or share an experience.

You will find others who have just been diagnosed , like yourself and with whom you can share your treatments whilst other posters have plenty of experience of what you are going through, sometimes having had BC two or three times and may have useful advice.

You can start your own thread or join any of the existing ones. There's a lot of empathy if you try the Awake thread in the General discussions.

You will find most contributors here know exactly how you are feeling at the moment. It can be very hard for family who have never had cancer to understand. Unfortunately this often continues after treatment finishes as they have a different expectation to reality. The advantage online is that your ' virtual ' friends will probably have shared the situations you will find yourself in.Hopefully this will mean that you will feel the support you now need from the other members of these groups.

I hope everything goes well for you over the next few months. Treatment isn't always pleasant but modern improvements mean it is often successful.

Take care and keep posting.

Hi Leglessghirl 

I am sorry you have been diagnosed and your family aren’t wanting to engage with it. It’s certainly not helpful for your mum to be querying whether you really have it. Unfortunately cancer is a great leveller. Although it can run in families, it also strikes completely at random. If I had a penny for everyone on here who says I was fit and healthy, I would be very rich indeed. It must be really hard for you all after the loss of your son. These things stir all sorts of things up, and I hope it will become easier for you all as you move forward with treatment. It’s good you have a real world neighbour / friend who you can talk to about it - lean on them!