Recent diagnosis

Hello Nan of 5,

Sorry to hear your news. It is perfectly normal to feel all kinds of emotions when you've just been landed with a bombshell. I remember feeling like that too and sometimes still have the odd moment when I get really upset.  I'm sure once your team have a plan in place you'll be able to focus on that and organise yourself accordingly.

My family found it really difficult too but now we just get on with it day to day.

I wish you well with the immunotherapy or chemo.

Please let us know how you get on.

little-fi x

Hi there....it's dreadful when you are first diagnosed, totally overwhelming and so hard to get your head round. 

Most of us get diagnosed at stage 4 and whilst it's not curable it IS treatable. Don't Google as most of the info is totally outdated.

I've had 4 treatments of immunotherapy so far (one every 6 weeks) and after the first 2 treatments my tumor had shrunk from 4cms to 1.7cms. 

At first we all think we're going to die and go into panic mode, but I promised you that that will pass. You'll feel more positive once you start treatment and you should come on here as there's always someone happy to chat and to give you advice.

Try and enjoy the present and not worry too much about would could happen years from now. There are constant advances in treatments and hopefully before long they'll find something that can keep it at bay permanently.

Xxc

Thank you for your reply. I start chemo on Friday, which I’m strangely looking forward to as it means I’m fighting this. Your right, I know I will come to terms with this and it’s not as grim as you first think. 
xx