Hi, Fluff1, I have been where you are now and you will get through this! Chemo can be unpleasant but just try and have the mindset of dealing with the day you have and getting through it. Take help from family and friends when offered don’t say you’re ok when you’re not. I would have had a metallic taste in mouth and found pineapple helped either a lolly or put a wee chunk on a cocktail stick to flavour your mouth. My mastectomy was in 2018 and I’ve never looked back put the bra on each day and think nothing of it. Admittedly the hair loss did upset me, didn’t think it would but when I looked in the mirror for the first time I wept. I wore wee hats and found the bamboo ones very soft and comfortable. It’ll grow back.. I went grey after and just stayed grey but everyone deals with it different.

I got through it all …. Then took vulval cancer last year which I’d never heard of. Chemo and radio for 6 weeks Monday to Friday and through the other side and last two scans showing no signs of disease. Praise God!

my advice is to try and stay positive and surround yourself with positivity and one day at a time. You will get there!

Eileen xx

Hi, Fluff1, I have been where you are now and you will get through this! Chemo can be unpleasant but just try and have the mindset of dealing with the day you have and getting through it. Take help from family and friends when offered don’t say you’re ok when you’re not. I would have had a metallic taste in mouth and found pineapple helped either a lolly or put a wee chunk on a cocktail stick to flavour your mouth. My mastectomy was in 2018 and I’ve never looked back put the bra on each day and think nothing of it. Admittedly the hair loss did upset me, didn’t think it would but when I looked in the mirror for the first time I wept. I wore wee hats and found the bamboo ones very soft and comfortable. It’ll grow back.. I went grey after and just stayed grey but everyone deals with it different.

I got through it all …. Then took vulval cancer last year which I’d never heard of. Chemo and radio for 6 weeks Monday to Friday and through the other side and last two scans showing no signs of disease. Praise God!

my advice is to try and stay positive and surround yourself with positivity and one day at a time. You will get there!

Eileen xx

Oh Eileen what a lot you have had to cope with! So glad you are ok now. Thank you so much for taking the time to reply. It is such a scary place to be and probably the fear of the unknown is the worst. I know they have to tell you the worst case scenario but it is so daunting.I have no choice but to accept what is to come and hope I can be brave on this long road I am facing!

Thank you again wish you well

Jan xx