I started my chemo on Friday, I had to wait six weeks for it all to begin. After five months of chemo I'll need to choose between lumpectomy v double mastectomy (they found it in my left breast too much later), then radiotherapy.
Do you know if you will need chemo yet?
The waiting period is the worst, yes. Waiting for results and scans and a treatment start date - it's good that you have one.
I was actually told I had secondary breast cancer as there was something on my lung, but then the radiologist disagreed. Further imaging showed it was a benign, unrelated tumour they can remove at another stage. Extraordinary really.
I just did small things each day that made me feel more in control. It could be going for a long walk, making a meal or folding laundry. Sounds stupid but it helped. There's nothing you can do to usher things along. I also watched a lot of trash like Love Island, ha ha. Not being the master of your own ship is rough, I know.
Any surgery is scary but lumpectomies way less invasive and with far less risk of complications etc than a mastectomy, you will be in good hands.
I started my chemo on Friday, I had to wait six weeks for it all to begin. After five months of chemo I'll need to choose between lumpectomy v double mastectomy (they found it in my left breast too much later), then radiotherapy.
Do you know if you will need chemo yet?
The waiting period is the worst, yes. Waiting for results and scans and a treatment start date - it's good that you have one.
I was actually told I had secondary breast cancer as there was something on my lung, but then the radiologist disagreed. Further imaging showed it was a benign, unrelated tumour they can remove at another stage. Extraordinary really.
I just did small things each day that made me feel more in control. It could be going for a long walk, making a meal or folding laundry. Sounds stupid but it helped. There's nothing you can do to usher things along. I also watched a lot of trash like Love Island, ha ha. Not being the master of your own ship is rough, I know.
Any surgery is scary but lumpectomies way less invasive and with far less risk of complications etc than a mastectomy, you will be in good hands.
