Breast cancer

Was diagnosed on June 18 th with breast cancer. It's stage on, so I am ver lucky. I have some major respiratory issues. Surgery was due on 30th July cancelled because of no HDU bed. Rearranged for 20th   August. This time was already to be taken down for surgery, then cancelled, no HDU bed. Was put on medication, which pretty much straight away caused side effects that made me so ill, I lost the weekend. The Brest unit had a meeting about my case, have offered another date, but it's hopeful it will happen . I'm three months I have gone from a normal human being to a quivering wreck . I know there are hundreds of people worse of than me but the not knowing and being told so many contradicting stories, is so hard to mentally deal with 

  • Callmeanythink

    Hi just read your post,and im sorry you have breast cancer and  added respiratory problems as well. It's a shame that your operation has been cancelled because of no high end dependency beds were available. The only thing that I can think of is, there must of been a person in a critical condition that needed the bed ,on these two occasions.  I know how tough it must of been for you to have your operation postponed, and even more frustrating when your medication that you were given made you ill. Try to stay positive that the next time you go in for the operation  that it will go ahead. 

    When it goes ahead you will be well looked after. My breast cancer was stage 2 ,my tumour  was 20mm ,and 3 of my lympth nodes were affected and contained  cancer. And I so far  I'm ok,I'm on Letrazole for 10 years, which isn't great, as many side effects. I've had my first yrs mamagram check ,but its not been 2 weeks yet so still waiting on results. I'm also waiting on a ultrasound as mamagrams didn't pick up my cancer ,but ultrasound did, and I found the lump myself. 

    Hope you get everything sorted ,and everything goes well for you..Do let us know, how you get on,always popping on here so if you need to chat ,just  add me as a friend and private message me if you want  to. X

     

  • Thank you so much for replying to my message. It was letrozole I reacted to but I am glad to hear it has worked for you and for such a long period of time. I hope you get good results. I want to say it's great to talk with someone who understands but that is so politically incorrect. I would love to add you as a friend. Just have to work out how

  • Hi Callmeanythink, 

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