New member fears

Myra,

We are on a similar time schedule. I had my surgery in July, and the anxiety still comes, and fortunately, always goes, usually when I begin to think about something else. There are days when I forget completely about cancer and other days when it totally occupies my thoughts. In my long life I never thought about my underarms except when I shaved them, and now I find myself checking all the time for lumps. When does it pass?--I don't know but for sure it does. I've become less anxious since I stopped searching the internet trying to learn everything I can about HER2 breast cancer. I have a friend, a very brilliant woman, formerly a distinguished professor at a well-known university, and a many times published writer who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005. She never talks about it, hasn't a clue what type she has, and doesn't know her prognosis. How she is able to ignore it is beyond me, but in truth she copes better than I do. So perhaps in the case of breast cancer, some ignorance is better than total knowledge. Anyway, my recent resolution is to stop searching the internet and to visit this site only when I need a boost in confidence. I'll let you know if it works. Good luck.