Treatment begins

Hi Mystena 

We’ve chatted before and I’d just like to send my best wishes for your surgery tomorrow. I completely understand how scary it is, but hopefully all will go well. I hope that you have got your family situation worked out now so that isn’t an additional worry for you. 

If you are anything like me, it will be a while before you might feel able to be online again, but I will look out for you posting on the other side of this once you can start to recover. it will be baby steps.

Sarah xx

Thank you Sarah. Im doing this for my family and myself. Im hoping i can have my phone straight away. I have a lot of people worried about me. Hoping I pull through. Am sure all will be okay. Xx

I wouldn’t have been able to use my phone straight after surgery as I was recovering from the anaesthetic in the high dependency unit for a couple of days and still on pain relief which made me very sleepy. 

My main surgeon called my partner with updates both during and after surgery which was very helpful. I think it’s important not to expect to be able to do much in the immediate aftermath of this major surgery. 

Sarah xx

This will be me in one week. I’ve been doing my best do not think too much about it, but I’m definitely feeling a bit nervous about the whole thing. Like, drinking what they say and when - then there’s the whole surgery thing with the pain/recovery, and how it’s going to change me.

Everyone expects you to ‘stay positive’, so you don’t feel you can talk about being a bit scared.

I know just how you feel I will be starting my treatment soon you try and look on the bright side but deep down I am not doing well, hope all goes well for you 

I hear you. The amount of people around me before my last surgery who didn’t know how to be with my fear and just acknowledge it’s tough was surprising. So I’m here to say yes this will be hard and there will be tough days ahead, I do hope you have even just one person around you who will be by your side no matter what. 
I wish you all the best most of all when you’re finding things difficult. 

hugs

Marie