Needing Inspiration-Gr 3 HER+ ER/PR- Node positive Stage IIb/3

[Caroline UK]

Belinda, I was diagnosed March 06, so I'm heading towards the ending of my year of treatments - I have about 6 more Herceptins to go (3-weekly). I keep thinking "This time last year...", and I see how much I have changed and grown as a person.

I saw you use the word 'tsunami', and that's exactly what I say to people, too. For me, it kind of feels like that now, on and off, because treatments and contact with the hospital are easing off, and now I have time to kind of re-process it all. Before, I had to get through each day, and that was my goal, everything was simplified right down. I'm sure everyone can relate to this.

Here in England it's a lovely time of year, Spring turning into summer, and I feel mostly full of hope. Sometimes I get a kind of sadness coming over me, I think maybe I'm mourning the loss of the old me, but I welcome the new me more.
So glad to have you and all the other wonderful women here to walk alongside, to hold each other up, sometimes we do the holding and sometimes we do the leaning.