Hello, everybody soon I am going to have another x ray to check if my cancer metastasis to lungs. My second after surgery, which concept of only second x ray in my journey of remission is an abstract for me. First one was clear, but when second is near due I am petrified. I have been thinking whole 2 month that I would manage with no talking about it and somehow delay feeling of awareness of my cancer but I cannot. I cannot wait for x ray and after, for results without people who know what I am feeling right now, today. It was hard to find support group because of covid 19 and my conflict with work so I am writing on the forum. I thought I am not going to be panicked, after all I have survived stage 3 grade 3 myxoid liposarcoma. But if I want to be honest I am terrifying... Again, against myself I have made mistake by reading the stats, and wow - my age group and my stage is not giving me more than 45% of 10 years and more and I am not ready for recurring within one year or even 5 years. I know it is stress and fear but still it is not giving me any break for taking a breath.
Hi JoannaA
My wife is going for her - some large number - x-ray to check out the Leiomyosarcoma in her lungs on Friday. Her cancer is stable and responded to chemotherapy and we have now been living with cancer for some time.
In terms of survival figures - 10 years is about the maximum for any cancer because after that point it becomes next to impossible to distinguish between people who died as a result of their cancer vs people who died of everything else. Many cancers only give a five year survival figures. Another important aspect of survival figures is they will be for people who were treated over 10 years ago and treatments are improving all the time.
Stress is not easy though - I was lucky to get a space on a living with less stress course that really helped me. I was living a life where I was working out how would I cope when ... but in practice I was much better at predicting catastrophe than actually happened. Sometimes of course we get hit by something nobody expected and the conscious breathing techniques I was talk were really very helpful in that. They also did some trancendentall meditation stuff but it did not really resonate with me.
<<hugs>>
Steve
