Hope you guys are all getting on as well as can be and made the most of the Easter. I just need to vent I guess. Have started second week of treatment and I just don't know how I'm going to get through. It's only the beginning. I literally feel like I'm on another planet. Can't put into words how my body feels. I ache. My taste buds seem to be non existent. I'm so fed up and fear it's only going to get worse
Oh LJ86
I’m sorry you’re finding it so tough so early on in the treatment-I did well till week 3 before it really hit me. Yes, it might get worse as treatment goes on, but it’s only a few weeks and then it’s done. Rest, sleep when you need and try to find the strength to continue, just a day at a time. Every day you get through is a day nearer the finish line. We nearly all found it hard going, but if you want rid of the cancer, you have to do it. There’s no other choice other than giving up, and that is much worse than any treatment. Keep going! One foot in front of the other.
Sarah xx
Well, it’s understandable-the whole process makes us very up and down mentally, but try not to spend too much time feeling low if you can. Do things to distract yourself and take your mind off things-watch tv, a film, phone a friend. Anything that makes you feel a little better.
I think we do all need to try and do the best we can to help ourselves get through by whatever way we can manage. I spent a lot of time having naps because I was exhausted!
Sarah xx
It’s really good you have people round you, honestly. I had my partner and that was it. No-one else. I would have loved to have had people to visit, maybe go out for a coffee, but I didn’t have any of that. I just had all my time alone except when I was having treatment.
It can be lonely when you have an illness and are having treatment because other people don’t really understand and don’t know what to say. Sometimes they don’t say anything at all and that can feel isolating.
But having family and support is really good, especially if the treatment is giving you side effects. At least you will have some help, and hopefully that will make things a little easier for you.
Sarah xx
I had some tough times, more so when my cancer recurred because I was in so much pain. But I said right at the start when I was first diagnosed I would never give in, and I would be as positive as I could be, which I think helped a lot. The mind has a powerful effect on the physical, I believe. So I did it a day at a time, an hour at a time some days when the pain was bad. I found positive quotes to repeat to myself every day, and I kept going.
I do feel sad that you use the word “defeat”. Try not to use negative words like that if you can, as it puts you in a more negative frame of mind immediately and makes things harder to deal with. I know it’s hard. I understand that, but I learned a lot about coping, going through this cancer twice and knowing it might be the end for me. I’d really like to try and encourage you to try and think along more positive lines.
Sarah xx
Yay! That’s more like it!
Please don’t give up-keep pushing through, and think of how good it will feel to put this behind you. Be proud of yourself-I’m proud of you for keeping going. A few weeks and treatment will be done.-you CAN do this.
Sarah xx
