CANCER DIARY
"Bigger than a Pea"
Tips on Coping with Cancer
 Reflection
4 December Dream Building & Appreciation for Life
5 December  Mammogram Day
6 DecemberBiopsy Day
7 DecemberReflecting
8 DecemberPathology Results
Google Search
10 DecemberRationalising
11 DecemberDecision Making
12 DecemberReflecting on the what if's
13 DecemberSurgery Day Drama
14 DecemberPost Operation
15 DecemberGoing Home
16 DecemberDr Deb Comes to Visit
18 December 19 DecemberLife goes on
Reflection
20 DecemberBest wishes from a friend
21 DecemberTelling Colleagues
22 DecemberMore support from colleagues
27 DecemberLetter to a client
30 December
to 15 January		e-mail dialogue
18 JanuaryTime to meet the surgeon again
21-25 Januarye-mail dialogue and support from family & friends
25 January
26 January
27 January		Chemo Day tomorrow
Chemo Day
The day after Chemo
28 January -
8 February		Chemo 1 of 6
Chemo isn't nice
Coming right
Depression
Feeling great & running
Molting
1 March - 9 MarchArticle in "The Listener" & reader feedback
9 March - 22 MarchHalf Way through the Chemo
28 March - 29 MarchDealing with baldness
30 March4th Chemo Session & drugs
24 AprilSunday Star Times Article - Health Insurance a matter of life and death for small businesses
16 MayLyfords Newsletter - Thank you for your patience & loyalty
24 JuneLife after chemo
  
 

Alison's Breast Cancer Diary
Feelings after diagnosis, surgery, and chemo-therapy

15 December - Going Home
That lovely surgeon was much more affable on day two after the operation.  He told me that I must do my arm exercises.  He warned me that if I kept my arm to my side the scar tissue would heal in such a way that I would lose significant arm movement. Sold.  I will do the exercises regardless of the pain.  He also said that I am not 'sick '.  It was time to go home.  I wanted to stay longer.  I liked it in the hospital - good drugs plenty of people to get anything for me - frankly it was a nice little place to have a holiday.  Weeks later I read that it was normal to have four days in hospital.

Home was fine.  Richard was devoted to me.

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Useful websites
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