Thinking of you and sending many calming vibes your way.
Sending warm and healing thoughts your way. My mom beat breast cancer many moons ago.
I just heard a report on the news earlier this week about some new treatment strategy that allows much less chemo than before. I hope that becomes an option for you.
Best of luck.
Warm thoughts coming your way.
If warm thoughts will help, you’ve got 'em. Kick the shit out of that cancer.
Thanks - every single message of warmth and compassion really helps. I just had no idea before this how much people can help you get through something hard.
Thisis not my actual oncologist, but I have someone from her team. I could have asked for her, but she travels a lot so I opted for the guy who has access to all her research and knowledge, but sticks around. I feel like I’m in really good hands, and that helps a lot too.
Wow, that’s a doozy to have to process especially at this time of year. Warm thoughts from me too. I hope that you have to support that you need.
Sounds like you are processing your way through it and have engaged some experts. Best of luck. Break a stethoscope! 
Definitely sending you love and warmth.
Success stories: My maternal grandmother had a lumpectomy gosh, at least 20 years ago, I remember I was barely old enough to grasp what was happening. She was told she needed a mastectomy and got a second opinion, and that second opinion turned out to be right. She has been in remission ever since.
This board’s former poster and friend of mine, ivylass, was diagnosed with breast cancer several years ago, went through chemo and not only kicked cancer’s ass but is maintaining a 50 pound weight loss.
If you are looking for success stories you will find a million.
But, I would add… you are under no obligation to be okay with this. If you’re scared shitless that’s every bit as valid as putting on your game face. Maybe you can do both. Maybe you will feel a lot of things, and not a one of them is less valid or important than another. And you know of course that we will be here for you no matter how courageous or optimistic you are feeling. Whatever it is, we will hold it.
UC, I know it’s “woo” and all, but I’m lighting a candle or two for you tonight. Ms. Gap had a scare a couple of years ago, and it shook our world. Terrifying. Keep your inner strength up as well as your outer strength.
mind the gap
Unauthorized Cinnamon, I’m new and don’t know you, but I wish you all the best and a successful journey to full recovery.
I have several friends who have gone through this. I hope it provides a measure of comfort for me to share that every single one of them is surviving and thriving, many years on.
Hugs if you want 'em.
Sending good thoughts your way, sweetie. Keep us posted as you can, and lean on us as you like.
I came in to say** ivylass** too. (I hadn’t realized it had been so long since I’d seen her, Spice Weasel, send her my warmest regards, if you talk to her.
Unauthorized Cinnamon, you will certainly be in my thoughts & prayers in the days ahead. Check your PMs please. HUGS
WTF aren’t you only 41 or something??? 
(((Unauthorized Cinnamon))) I have had two friends go through breast cancer and both came through with flying colors. One of them lost all the hair on one side of her head only… so she got a mohawk. 
The other one didn’t lose any hair. As far as I remember they both went through the same treatments. It’s been over 10 years for both of those ladies now, closer to 18 years for the one. It can be beat! I’m glad you’ve got a good team working with you!
Another ((hug)) from me, Unauthorized Cinnamon.
I know three women who are now fine after having been diagnosed with and treated for breast cancer. Respectively: four years ago, 7-8 years ago, 13 years ago. It doesn’t make it any less scary, I’m sure, but so many people have beaten it.
Good thoughts coming from me too.
My mother was 50; at the time, the treatment for the type and staging of cancer that she had was a modified radical mastectomy. Her doctors all said she didn’t need radiation or chemo, so she didn’t take them. Nowadays, the surgery would probably be less drastic, but that’s what was done at the time.
That was 31 years ago. She’s still here.
p.s. One of my grandmother’s friends had been through this FIFTY YEARS EARLIER. She died a few years later during the week of her 100th birthday.
Mine was modified radical, too, and you didn’t know until you woke up if it was malignant. You woke up and you felt around. If there was nothing there, it was malignant and the breast had been removed.
My grandmother and her sister both had it in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when they were in their fifties. Both lived to ripe old ages without problems from the breast cancer.
Fuck Cancer.
My sister is a ten year breast cancer survivor. She discovered her lump while breastfeeding - needless to say my nephew didn’t get breastmilk for as long as recommended. She was under 40.
She had a total radical mastectomy, radiation, and a year or two later a second prophylactic mastectomy because she was sick of the worry and then complete reconstruction. It was a long year between diagnosis and her feeling better (then a long period of time for recovery after the second mastectomy and reconstruction) - but it was a year. My you simply have the worst year of your life, and plenty of life to follow.
So sorry, hon. Good luck.
21 year survivor here - double mastectomy,because I insisted. No chemo/radiation… My idea.
I have had chemo,for another type cancer.
Do accept help. You would do kindnesses for others,allow them to do kindnesses for you.
I went into some kind of fugue state - could talk,made sense ,remembered nothing.
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Just dropping by to say that we think you’re fantastic!!!