Hi Jem,

I can understand your shock and just wanted to say that it does get easier. 
I'm 49 and was an absolute mess when I was diagnosed (last October) but it helped me to focus on the positives, the fact the cancer had been found and was treatable, and I felt a hundred times better once I had a date for surgery - hopefully you'll get that soon.
The doctors and nurses are amazing and, as Jolamine says, you have to put your faith in them. I had a lumpectomy (with 2 sentinel nodes removed) in November and that was completely fine - I was in and out in a day and recovered quickly. I'm now on Tamoxifen and about to start radiotherapy to prevent recurrence. It's been the worst few months of my life, but I'm getting through it and am just so grateful that it wasn't worse. I feel genuinely lucky. If you have any questions about your lumpectomy I'd be happy to help if I can.

My only other advice - don't Google! I did - far too much - and it really didn't help. I felt so much better when I stepped away from it.

Anyway, I just wanted to say that you'll be ok! That's what I needed to hear at the start :) 

love, Jenny xx

Hi Jem,

I can understand your shock and just wanted to say that it does get easier. 
I'm 49 and was an absolute mess when I was diagnosed (last October) but it helped me to focus on the positives, the fact the cancer had been found and was treatable, and I felt a hundred times better once I had a date for surgery - hopefully you'll get that soon.
The doctors and nurses are amazing and, as Jolamine says, you have to put your faith in them. I had a lumpectomy (with 2 sentinel nodes removed) in November and that was completely fine - I was in and out in a day and recovered quickly. I'm now on Tamoxifen and about to start radiotherapy to prevent recurrence. It's been the worst few months of my life, but I'm getting through it and am just so grateful that it wasn't worse. I feel genuinely lucky. If you have any questions about your lumpectomy I'd be happy to help if I can.

My only other advice - don't Google! I did - far too much - and it really didn't help. I felt so much better when I stepped away from it.

Anyway, I just wanted to say that you'll be ok! That's what I needed to hear at the start :) 

love, Jenny xx

Hi Jenny

Thank you so much for your reply. Yes, I understand about googling and have just listened and read the booklets that the cancer team at the hospital gave me, otherwise I agree you can get oneself in a worse emotional turmoil than ever!

Hopefully next week after seeing the surgeon I will feel much more stable. My sister Is a midwife so she's booked me to see a nutritionist so I can get as good a diet going before surgery and I have dogs etc so hopefully fairly fit, but I'm planning on doing extra so I can be as well as possible before surgery..

Many thanks

Joanne x