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mginger
mginger Member Posts: 150
edited June 2014 in Mental Health: Because Cancer Doesn't Just Affect Your Breasts

       Exactly one year ago, I was still happy and innocent. One hour after, took a shower, then notice blood on my nipple. Asked google (many times) and there was only one damn answer: BC.

       I've been feeling anguish all week and I couldn't figure out why. Do you think it could be due to this ''anniversary'' ?

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  • baywatcher
    baywatcher Member Posts: 532
    edited March 2009

    mginger-

    I think it is for sure the anniversary. The anxiety happens to me every year. Let's face it, the diagnosis changed our lives.

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  • BFidelis
    BFidelis Member Posts: 156
    edited March 2009

    Hi mginger-

    Anxiety can most certainly be triggered by events like anniversaries.  baywatcher is right, our lives changed and we live in a world that at best, believes we should "get over it already" and at worst, doesn't think there's even anything to get over.

    Dona Nobis Pacem,

    Beth

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited March 2009

    ....or to being a year older?.... ;-)

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  • mginger
    mginger Member Posts: 150
    edited March 2009

       Well, yeah, maybe I should celebrate the fact that I am still alive. That is a good point of view. Maybe I should make plans for the year ahead, to celebrate life! 

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited March 2009

    (((((((((((((((((((((( HUGS ))))))))))))))))))))

    ...and happy birthday!

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  • mginger
    mginger Member Posts: 150
    edited March 2009

       Thanks Barbe!

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  • melmedic06
    melmedic06 Member Posts: 96
    edited March 2009

    my anxiety is always triggered by anniversary's- the death of my sister and father within 3 months of each other make for very difficult october's and december's not to mention being dx'd in october so it is a double whammy month- may is also hard as my mother passed away then and it is also her birthday- mother's day and my parent's anniversary- i also find february a month to struggle though because that is when i finished my first round of radiation- you would think it would be a happy month but it is not- lot's of moments trigger anxiety- if we could only pre-predict when it will strike we could be more prepared- stay strong- keep the faith ladies-

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  • DebInTN
    DebInTN Member Posts: 85
    edited March 2009

    Me, too.  Friday is the 1 yr anniversary of my mastectomy.  I have an appointment with my oncologist Friday morning.  I can feel my insides jittering right now.  So unlike the normal me to be this way.  I don't like it at all.  I'm not a worrier and I am not consciously worried - but my insides must be. I just thought that after I had the mastectomy and healed and did what they said for a year I'd feel better and people would quit worrying about me..... 

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