Ecaterina 

best wishes going forward lovely big hugs love Lara xxx 

A very warm welcome to the forum Ecaterina although I'm sorry to hear you were diagnosed with stomach cancer.

This must be a very difficult time but the Cancer Chat community are here for you and hopefully some of our members who have been on the stomach cancer journey will be along soon to share their experiences and advice.

I hope this information we have about stomach cancer will prove useful but if you have any further questions, or feel it may just help to talk things through with someone, then do give our cancer nurses a call. They're available on 0808 800 4040, Monday - Friday between 9a.m - 5p.m. They're very insightful and will do all they can to help.

We're wishing you all the best with your recovery Ecaterina and will have our fingers crossed the results bring favourable news when the time comes.

Kind regards,

Steph, Cancer Chat Moderator

Undoubtedly, your cancer has effected you at least for now in terms of work and life but you can always get “back on that horse” when you are able to. It’s never too late to think about future you and this experience will make you stronger. I think it’s very promising that you’ve had a gastrectomy (stomach removal) and D2 lymphadenectomy. I am hopeful you will recover and I think you should be too. You can only wait for now I hope the wait isn’t too hard on you and wish you all the luck I can give. If results are “bad” then remember you can still keep on for years and years with a relatively normal life it’s not all doom and darkness.

Remember a lot of online statistics are heavily out of date by 5 to 10 years and cancer treatment and control has developed sooo well in that time. Plus you have an advantage with your age. You just got unlucky that’s all. It will take time to process any bad news as I’m sure you know and that’s okay as long as you don’t let yourself spiral down into sadness for the long term (it’s okay and even good to be sad now though). Eventually you need to reach a point of acceptance where you can just say it is what it is. Read lots of non fiction about acceptance, philosophy, etc. Reach out to people when you can. These will help you.