Had my echocardiogram today to check my heart health before starting chemotherapy! Really hope it can cope as I do my best to keep it healthy! Had a lovely surprise today, some of my family have signed up and are raising money for cancer research by doing the Pretty Muddy Race for Life, I felt very humbled by this. Hoping I am well enough to go watch! Will probably be half way through my chemo marathon by then! Very proud of them for doing this though.
Where to start? Cancer itself, the thoughts, the feelings? The impact of my already fragile mental health? So many thoughts going around and around its totally overwhelming, even as I type I'm tearful! I'm no writer but I think getting some of this down may help me and may help someone else! Probably best to start at the beginning: October last year I went to the doctor with a lump in my armpit, she thought it was most likely normal but referred me anyway. Having not long turned 50 I had been invited for first mammogram but not yet organised. I obviously wasn't overly worried, fit and healthy and hadn't found a lump in my breast. A referral was received to go to the Breast Care Unit at the Hospital to meet a consultant, have an ultrasound and mammogram. Consultant examined, said he thought may be something, radiologist said within normal measurements for a normal lymph node and felt it was fine and to leave it alone! Mammogram came back clear. Consult...
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