Thanks to all of you !!!!!!

I ditto that, flowerfriend and thank you for starting the thread!  I come to the boards just about every day for strength, guidance, hope, and healing.  I cry a lot, laugh with you...just need you all so much.

Pretty amazing for a shy, loner-type like me.  The dx has changed my life...but not all of it is bad.  Most of it at this juncture (a couple of weeks before surgery and defining pathology report) is really, really scary.  But I love the boards.  For me there is definitely a lot of emotional, spritual, and even physical processing and evolution going on.  Through adversity does come depth. Healing is happening already, on many, many different levels.

Thank you all!

Ditto the sentiments above of flowerfiend and omeggo!!

For me, the great thing about these boards is that they are available 24-7.

While my post treatment months have been an emotional roller coaster, I didn't find planned group support meetings all that helplful.  (They can be great and I would certainly never discourage anyone from going, they just aren't a good fit for me.)  When the day of the meeting would roll around, often I happened to be doing okay (stage 0 and that surgery was my only treatment I think helps me feel pretty good sometimes, but not always).  Then, the next day (with no meeting for another week) I would see someone in a bikini on tv and be reminded of the fact that I no longer have cleavage, and plummet into the blues.  Or I would come across stats about the cancer coming back and get scared senseless.  After acouple of days I would feel better again, and be doing okay by the time of  the next meeting!! Being able to log on and read how so many women have/are dealing with the same feelings when I'm actually upset just helps so much!  

These boards are a lifesaver because I can get the support I need when I need it; our emotions do not necessarily follow schedules!

I can't thank the mods, techs and everyone else involved in running these boards enough!!

Edited to add:  OOPS! And of course I also thank so much all of the bc women on these boards for bravely sharing their experiences!