I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M REALLY HERE!!!

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shockedat39
shockedat39 Member Posts: 252
edited June 2014 in Life After Breast Cancer

I remember finding bc.org on November 25th of last year, the night before my diagnosis was confirmed.  In the next week or so I perused the site, only making one short post in the Just Diagnosed forum.  I do remember clicking on this forum (Moving Beyond) and envying the ladies here.  Facing that huge mountain I had ahead of me was daunting and scary and I was sure that I wouldn't be able to do it.

Well, here I am...almost 7 months later...my last radiation treatment was yesterday (rads following bi-lateral mastectomy and 8 rounds of chemo).  My greatest wish was to be done and be able to come to this forum to say I am moving on!!  Sure, I have pills (and bills!) and the possibility of recurrence will always be somewhere in the back of my mind.  But I'm ready to leave this cancer thing behind and resume life as I knew it (or maybe even a little bit better).

I'm proud to be counted among the survivors now.  You ladies are all amazing.

Diane 

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited July 2009
    And so are you! Congrats! Laughing
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  • Sydney6
    Sydney6 Member Posts: 172
    edited July 2009

    Diane - You are amazing!  Congratulations on being done with radiation!  I definitely look at life differently now.  Whenever possible I don't waste my time with people I don't really want to be with or do things I don't want to do (I still clean and such, but if someone asks me to volunteer somewhere or bake something and I don't feel like doing it I just say no.)  Go out and have a GREAT life!

    Sue

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  • arnie
    arnie Member Posts: 3,050
    edited July 2009
    Wow..Diane...you give me inspiration!!!  I still have 4 tx and radiation to go but am definelty looking foward to joining you on this thread!!!  CONGRATS!!! Laughing
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  • mmm5
    mmm5 Member Posts: 1,470
    edited July 2009

    Diane

    Welcome to life after treatment, there are many good things about this time, you can begin to get back to living and not so many Doc appts, you can get your health back.
    Don't be surprised if you feel a little down or worried during this time, many of us feel scared a bit after active treatment ends, I am going through a period like that now and all assure me it is normal. However for the most part things are so much better and I am back to enjoying things I love with a bit of a new lease on life.

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  • abbadoodles
    abbadoodles Member Posts: 2,618
    edited July 2009

    Yay, Diane.  It's such a relief to out of the medical vortex, isn't it?

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  • Bugs
    Bugs Member Posts: 1,719
    edited July 2009

    Congrats on making the finish line in treatment!  Celebrate!

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  • dreamwriter
    dreamwriter Member Posts: 3,255
    edited July 2009

    Wow and you are free....... wings spread, leaving one line to us.... always be one of  us.

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  • Diana63
    Diana63 Member Posts: 773
    edited July 2009
    Congratulations Diane, welcome back to the land of the living, for me treatment was a big blur of appts & surgeries.  Good luck Laughing
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  • MrsBee
    MrsBee Member Posts: 124
    edited July 2009

    Diane, in my book, you were a survivor the minute you heard that diagnosis!

    I'm glad to hear that you have so much behind you now.

    {{{{{Gentle hugs}}}}}

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  • lexislove
    lexislove Member Posts: 2,645
    edited July 2009

    Diane thanks for coming back to let us know hoe you are doing!

    I am 13 months post rads, some days I have a hard time remembering everything I had to go through....must mean I'm movin on..

    Be Well!

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