Last Herceptin Infusion - Done and Dusted!

[Aussie Girl]

Hi Everyone,

Just letting you know I had my last Herceptin infusion yesterday. Chocolates all round at the Cancer centre and may I never have to walk in there as a patient again!

I am working part time and will soon be up to 30 hours a week. My life has changed in a million ways since my cancer diagnosis. For a while now I've been struggling to stay positive.

My life is full of drama and tears. My son has left to go to University. My teenage daughter announced she was transgender and has been diagnosed with High functioning autism spectrum disorder and depression. I've had chemopause (blah!), a car accident (minor) and house renovations (major). Friends were recently killed in the plane shot down over Ukraine. Other friends have had breast cancer, and a close friend's son got very badly burnt two days ago when his coat caught alight as he stood with his back to a camp fire.

Yesterday my oncologist assured me my prognosis is very good and that there are no special scans or blood tests currently available to screen or monitor for metastases.....

So today I decided to believe in my own healing and to get on with living.

My encounter with cancer - early stage cancer that is - is such a small blip compared what is happening to others. I am fortunate not to be in that hard place that many of you beautiful brave ladies with stage 4 inhabit.

I am starting to see my life in perspective now. I have felt so embattled by bad news, and feelings of disempowerment (particularly with respect to my daughter/son), that I wasn't seeing the good things which are myriad in my life and not seeing the new pathways that are opening up for me.

I am turning my face towards the positive things I can do for myself, my friends, family and community. I've put myself at the front there at the moment because I has spent so much of my life doing things for others that I hardly know who I am. It's about time I found out, I think.

Thanks for all your support

Diane