I think so, I think that detachment is trying to disconnect you and protect you. Sometimes it’s all just too much to take in, it can become overwhelming and it becomes easier for a bit to just keep going and not emotionally connect with it at that moment. I think we maybe all have times where it feels numb, sometimes I have thought (and dreamt) I’ve imagined parts of my diagnosis, I’m having a mastectomy too eventually x
I was even thinking today, did I actually hear that correctly, they can't mean me, do they have the right results, it's like a blur, I can't even remember half of what they were saying to me.
I guess it's all just a bit overwhelming and I'm not sure how I should be feeling. I'm not sure when I'm having surgery, at the moment they are waiting for the HER results to come back.
I'm sorry that you have to go through this too, when we're you diagnosed?
I have felt at times that it was happening to someone else. I think that's how many people feel if they're honest about it. I dealt with it very calmly at first indeed. Felt I kind of snapped at the Breast Surgeon when she told me I needed a mastectomy. Husband said I didn't. She asked me what she could have said that was worse news ? Didn't give the right answer to that one ! Is there a Breast Cancer Nurse you can discuss the practical elements of it with ? I found that helpful. I never really took on board what a major op it was. I think it's all a shock. I find the treatment fascinating in a way and try to do the best I can with it.
I know what you mean, I was the other end of the spectrum, I barley said anything was just saying OK to everything, I don't think it was completely registering. I do have a nurse and I shall make some note to ask once its sunk in, at the moment I have no idea what to ask.
I have been googling certain words because half of it I've never heard of before.
