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Recovery after diagnosis of BC

Liz72
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Dear All,

 

I'm finding today a little hard and I'm crying for the first time and if honest feeling sorry for myself. 
 

I was diagnosed on 1st July  with grade 3 IDC and high grade DCIS I have no nodes involvement and HER2 negative, I have felt so blessed and lucky, I had a lumpectomy on 28th July and it has been very successful so successful that I can say I am now cancer free I found this out at my results appointment on Wednesday also my cancer is being sent to America for a Oncotype DX as this will help find the best treatment, again I feel so lucky or should I say felt!!! Today it has hit me that the fight is not over and it looks like it is heading towards Chemo as adjuvant treatment, I'm scared and feel like I should not have the right as I have been lucky all along and I guess being afraid won't help the fight but Chemo is really really frightening me and I did not expect to feel like this today, I have amazing support from family and close friends but today I just need my cancer family. 
 

I'm sorry to feel like this and typing this is making me feel a bit better, I guess I was a fool to think it's all over or maybe because I have been so strong I broke today. 
 

Liz xx

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    HI Liz 

     

    Take each day as it comes chemo is scary at first but as long as you let your emergency cancer team know what you are going through no matter what the time they will help you combat any side effects you may have, I underwent major surgery to have a tumour removed having been diagnosed with ovarian cancer am cancer free but had to undergo 6 rounds of chemo some of the rounds felt like fighting with a boxer yet made it through, it's been approx 6 weeks after the last round of chemo having to undergo infusions to help build body up to where it needs to be ... be strong be positive...am lucky as my treatment continued without a problem during covid...my cancer team were with me each step of the way as we're Macmillan and cancer research.

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    Hi Liz

     

    I hope you're feeling a bit better today. Thought I'd let you know my story. I was diagnosed in July 2019, grade 3 BC, HER negative, that had spread to lymph nodes. I went through 4 months, 6 rounds of chemo, ( I had chemo first to shrink the tumour as it was quite large) mastectomy and lymph node removal followed by 15 rounds of radiotherapy. I have just gone back to work after having to shield for 4 months and I'm doing great.

     

    Theres no getting away from the fact that chemo is horrible but if I can get through it anyone can, I'm a wuss and was very rarely ill but those few months weren't good. Mine was once every 3 weeks and I was usually fine about a week to ten days after treatment and  could carry on as normal. The second lot of drugs seemed slightly worse even though they told me if I could get through the first lot the second would be easy. Not in my case. I lost my hair but it's now come back grey (it was dark brown) and I'm growing to love it short and grey.

     

    Think positive and you'll get through it and be stronger for it. I am

     

    Good luck x

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