Calling all TNs

Hello everyone,

I am just popping in to wish all our American friends a Happy Thanksgiving. Have a lovely time with your family and friends.

Best wishes form the UK.

Sylvia xxxx

Have a great Thanksgiving to all of us.

Our dear sweet Cocker, we'll all be with you on Tuesday, holding you and praying. I know you're scared, and we are too. You're so strong but it's ok to be scared and not feel strong during this time, so let it all out if you have to. I wish we could all literally be with you but hold tight to your family. Huge (((((HUGS))))) my friend.

Cocker - Sending you lots of love and (((hugs))). We will be there with you in spirit, and will continue to keep you in prayer.

Annie...we are all with you.❤️

For Madam Cocker

Batesburg...WOW‼️ I love your MO's quote. Several years ago I thought I had ovarian cancer. Before the surgery I was overcome with sadness at all the time I had wasted on complaining, procrastinating and generally thinking and behaving as though I had endless time available to me. When the surgery showed no cancer, I promised myself I would not waste another precious minute of this gift called life. Now, being diagnosed with breast cancer I am trying to make the most of every day, putting fear and uncertainty on the back burner. It's hard but it can be done and it's really important for all of us. Thanks so much for sharing this lesson with all of us, especially Annie (Cocker).

thanks Janet for your wonderful post!

batesburg and Cathy how true are your words. It takes having cancer to be scared, to start to live life fearless. It's in my signature below and I think about being fearless again every day. Don't know when I will get there but it's the journey that I want to be grateful for and appreciate. I relate it to when I was first diagnosed and cancer was my waking thought, my constant thoght throughout my day, and when I went to sleep. I just wanted not to b thinking about it every moment of my day. I wanted in a sense to be as fearless in my thoughts as I was before dx. I hope we all can get there.

Cocker I saw this and thought of you. We are all over the world on this thread but we are friends that stay. Continuing to lift you up in prayer as you move forward.

Love, prayers & arm to arm linked hugs are flooding you daily.

Xoxo

G

Cocker Spaniel,

I didn't think you are a big baby; I think you are handling a "big burden"! I was thinking about you saying you want to live but you have fears of what's coming. I wasn't sure if you meant fears of getting further treatment or fears of saying no to it? Are you fearful of decreased quantity or quality of life either way?

I told my husband and daughter after completing treatment (chemo and surgery) that if and when my cancer recurred I'd be open to some surgeries but not any more chemo. They accepted this at the time. It is MY life, including all my bodily functions, and therefore mine to choose what seems right for me.

So there are my questions and my two cents. I hope I haven't offended or stressed you with this message.

Hugs,

Peggy

Thanks everyone for your positive responses. I am certainly a "work in progress" and I can't deny that I have ups and downs to accepting uncertainty.

In fact, I go back and re-read my pathology report and sometimes look at the research regarding TNBC.

Our situations are all as unique as our DNA yet I still look for common threads to me. Mind games at work.

Here is my biggest question, what makes our lives as breast cancer survivors any less certain for longevity than anyone else? Hard for me to wrap my head around, frankly.

Thoughts?

My love to you, Cocker, as you head into a new week of challenges.

Janet

Annie, as always you're in my constant thoughts, but you'll be extra so this week as you navigate testing. We will all be here for you and in your pocket. I know you're scared, and knowing the type of person you are, I'm sure you don't want to see your family worry either, but try to let them take care of you. Is it possible for you to take a short leave from work while you sort things out? I only say that because you mentioned loving your home time. I can relate because I enjoy being home as well. Sending you tons of love, prayer and strength. xoxo

Batesburg, to answer your question I think our longevity is put more on our path than others. A cancer diagnosis in my opinion makes you aware of it more. I think those dx'd with heart disease etc feel the same way. You wonder how long with the medicine last, did it work etc.