I have DCIS in my left breast found on an MRI after investigations into some anomalies in my right breast. I'm booked in for a double mastectomy in march with some lymph nodes being removed also. I still feel it's happening to someone else not me.
It is hard to understand why this happens. You will probably find you are managing the emotions of everyone around you. Telling people you love can be very difficult. I can really relate to feeling it is not happening to me. Being told to stay positive I find is really not helpful. I bite my tongue! Make sure you find out as much as you can from the surgeon so you know all your options. Channel your energy into day to day stuff. Good luck with your surgery. Hope I have helped a little.
I felt like that, a sense of disbelief. It's a shock to be on this road not the preferred one. Processing it takes time. Life changing but hopefully the new way of life will be good once this is over. The number of people who have told me they had it 10 or 20 yrs ago. They don't really know how to respond they are as shocked as we are initially. I have to explain things to my husband, he thought once it was cut out it would be gone. It was in the lymph node, 1 of the 30 they took. It was the lymph node that was painfull after the Covid jab that told me something was amiss.
