Well I feel I've sailed though that!!! Surgery was on Weds. I honestly can't believe how good I feel! and that was even from about an hour after surgery!!! 

I have just posted the whole tale, chapter and verse, in a separate post in "Newly Diagnosed" so won't repeat all the details here. Suffice to say, having got that out of the way I am now enjoying what feels like a retirement, with all the time in the world to do whatever I want - go for a lie down mid-aft if I want to, eat when I want to, walk the dogs when I want to/they need to/as little or as far as I feel I want to and can....I can watch TV, read, no pressure to cook and eat and get ready for work at given times, and if I didn't need the money for the next three and a half years I actually think I'd be happy to retire here and now! 

I was given a four-week sick note. I know my manager has arranged cover for about 7 weeks in fact, as I'd told him I was told 6-8 weeks. I have to go to the GP for an extension on the four weeks but I shall indeed lay it on thick that I cannot lug around heavy stock at work and that my manager has covered my shifts accordingly. I will be ready to go back in six weeks, but mentally not in four really as I am enjoying this freedom...I potter about doing little bits of "housework" I never normally can set my mind to, such as this morning I turned out the Girls' two toyboxes and found non-toy stuff in them so sorted that out. Pottering gives me a bit of exercise indoors, on the level I know I can cope with. 

I wish everyone else had such a positive recovery period. I am aware that I am extremely fortunate and I'm not taking it for granted just yet as I know it would be too easy to go and do something foolish and set myself back weeks. 

I've now come to an acceptance of my loss of health, which I likened to a bereavement. I've done the Disbelief, the Anger, the Fear, and Denial, and in a relatively short time have now reached Acceptance. 

Slight possibility I may need radiotherapy but I won't know until four weeks after they have tested everything they took out which was the whole lot. 

I have booked two weeks in France for mid-August, as well as our normal September week in Hunstanton and October week in Bude. So, lots to look forward to and even if I need radiotherapy, mid-August is likely to be beyond the time scale of that unless there is something badly wrong that they haven't yet discovered or suspected. 

I actually feel like I have the healing pattern of any one of my dogs after their spay!! and I honestly hadn't expected that!

Wonderful news!  And yes do get that sick note extended and enjoy some long walks in the hopefully good weather ️

Yes the weather is a bonus as when all this started for me, it was wet and grim and unpleasant. I feel so much more cheerful in sunny weather and blue sky, or even dry is a bonus at times when you have two dogs to walk in a wooded area that never seems to dry out unless the sun beats down for a day or two. 

I don't know what I'm facing in the future, but I feel much more in control of it now and ready to face whatever. I always do "live in the moment" anyway - I love sitting on a bench just enjoying the sunshine, or looking closely at all the little wild flowers as I walk my dogs along - so I can't really make any improvements on what I already do in my life, but just keep on doing them. My dogs always live in the moment, and I have always taken my cue from them before when I was the normal Me.

I am now referring to BC and AD. Before Cancer and After Diagnosis. 

Two different stages of my life. Oh and I discovered by chance on my last shift that yet another work colleague, about three years younger than I am, also had a full hysterectomy and a bit of chemo way back when she was about 34, for what she referred to as "a bit of cancer"! And here she is 25 years later walking around as if she had never had cancer or a hysterectomy!