Would you mind sharing your age at time of diagnosis?

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40--after first ever mammogram

ByFaith,

Are you still on the hormone blocker?

JCP

ByFaith,

Are you still taking Arimidex?

Thank you,

JCP

Best of luck with your upcoming test, jcp. I am thinking of you!

Thank you berries! I appreciate that. JCP

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It’s my first post — I don't know exactly where to begin or if this it’s in the right boardso I'll just start ... I am 51 and my cancer diagnosis date was 8/11/20. Invasive ductal carcinoma of the left beast. Lumpectomy on 7/29 was of a tumor deep at the chest wall, but a small tumor, and is a more uncomfortable healing process than I was prepared for. Also, two unresolved tumors (since January 2019) exist in the right breast that appear similar in construct as the left as best as I can decipher from the radiology reports. It has been difficult to find competent breast care in my region until fairly recently. Anyhow, I went back to work for the first time since Covid the next morning after the diagnosis and felt like my head was spinning in unreality. I'm a part-time teachers aid in a special ed classroom (no students yet, just the teachers and classified staff).

I am also preparing for my sons wedding that is just over two weeks away. He is new in law enforcement and the stress over the last few months has been hard on all of us. This close to the wedding the stress is fever pitch!

Also worth mentioning but difficult to write about is a complex mental health diagnosis I have that derives in large part from complex trauma: a domestic violence murder-suicide in 2016. I also was displaced from my 17 year career in educational administration in 2013. I underwent intensive outpatient mental health services and have been under psychiatric care since 2018.

With the latest incidents In CA of widespread fire - smoke, destruction, loss of life and property I feel as though all is unraveling in life - never be the same again. I haven't spent adequate time studying/understanding my cancer diagnosis and next steps. I want it all to be a terrible mistake. I think my family is largely ignoring it as well, which is bittersweet for me. I can't imagine things will get easier as cancer treatment progresses; and I fear an outcome in which I literally am simply not strong enough mentally (or physically?) to survive.

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67. Lumpectomy and 2 nodes.

2 days after my 51st birthday.

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I was 39 and really found out from a cyst( not related to my cancer)

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