TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER

Good morning Kerri,

Are you in the UK? If so you have maybe woken up with this panic or lain awake for hours worrying.

I am not at your point yet. I only had my op 2 weeks ago but I wasn't aware of so much about breast cancer when I started this journey.

I felt that a lot of the support went to people post treatment and I couldn't understand why that would be so needed. Surely at diagnosis and op stage your anxieties would be higher?

But the more I read and the more I learn. I understand that for the most part going through the treatment process we are in shock. It is only afterwards that the actual trauma is realised and that is why the help is so centred around then .

I really feel for you and anticipate feeling just the same at your stage of the journey. Be kind to yourself, breathe and take the days as they come. And have HOPE. Look how far you have come!

Wishing you the very best of days today

Amanda xx

I’m 3 months post treatment and finding it increasingly  hard, I’m booking on the moving on course in April. 

xx 

That's the problem. I am returning back to work today and all these courses are through the day so impossible for me to do them, just not sure how I can move on with the fear of it returning.

The one I’m doing is 2 half days but they did offer a zoom one. Could you talk to your employer about taking time out. I am sure legally your employer is still obligated to support your recovery. I work in a small team for a family business so understand it’s not all that easy especially having been off for a while but you need to make time for what you need. Xxx

https://breastcancernow.org/here

I am a year into my TNBC journey and have been through the usual mill of surgery, chemo, radiotherapy. About half way through my chemo I found through a random series of events that I also had a secondary on my liver. Now that has been ablated I am on 3 monthly scan and watch routines, with immunotherapy and more chemo to come when necessary.

Fairly early on, I decided I had to find a way of parking it, or I would spend the rest of what could be a limited period of healthy time drowning in worry. I did a short mindfulness course. I got my running shoes back out and took myself back through C25K. I made holiday plans. I upped my workload. Just generally doing what I can to live normally and to enjoy each day.

This morning I had the blood test to check my cancer markers. Tomorrow I have a CT scan. In 2 weeks time I have a liver MRI. I will probably be a wreck in the days leading up to the consultant appointment to review the outcome of that lot, but will use my distractions as best I can.

I hope going back to work gives you some distraction from this. It’s tough.