1yr on
Well I can't believe I finished chemo a year ago today it has flown by.17 months ago I thought I'd never see the end or normality again.But here I am done and dusted first mammo clear and starting to find myself again.I have learned so much about myself on this journey and of others that I might not have had it not happened and for that I'm grateful.Thank you all who have supported me here through my rants and moans(and there was a few!!)the support here has been fantastic and I would have been lost without it so thank you again.
Today was certainly not an anniversary I thought I'd celebrate but you know what we are bloody fantastic for going through and coming out the other side of this disease and its treatments.Can't wait till the 1st may for the new boobs 1st birthday.
So tonight ladies I'm having a glass or two I celebration of myself and for all of you that are finished,going through or just starting.
There is light at the end of the tunnel
Cheers to us
Xx
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Hi Mary
You will believe me!!!I didn't think I would honestly but am getting there at my own pace.Trust me I'm not trouble free but it does start to feel a little normal again.aches and pains all the time and back trouble but you know yourself after chemo you can tolerate most things.
Xx hugs
Thanks for ur post wilmaone, glad to hear that there is an end to this! Still can't imagine trying to pick up the pieces of my life and put them together again yet, but its really great to read these posts from u and Kathleen, so thanks so much xx
Hi Wilmaone,
Congratulations on reaching the one year milestone and thank you for your very touching post. Great to hear that things are going well for you.
I've always hated the euphemism of calling cancer treatment a journey. What airline or travel agency could sell you a 'journey' like that 
To me it was more of a detour than a journey. In my head I was suddenly shunted off the smooth, sunny, healthy motorway of my life and out of my reliable, comfortable car into onto a old banger on an unmapped, potholed, foggy parallel side road with no apparent access back to where I used to be and wanted to go. A crazy parallel life where all I wanted was what I used to have. Right now I feel that I am pretty much back on my sunny motorway, I've brought a few potholes with me and the car has a big problem with acceleration but when I look back I have come a long way for sure.
There definitely is light at the end of the tunnel though it is hard to believe it at times.
Hugs
Kath
Kathleen
love your post, great description. Here's to a lot more sunny motorway
Absolutely love your description and its exactly that. Maybe the bockedy road makes us appreciate the motor way when we get back on it. I think maybe now we are a Morris Minor as oppose to a Toyota avensis but good news is we are not in the scrap yard
Wicklow Lady, you had me in absolute stitches laughing.
Pure genius! The Morris Minor was surely the ultimate non-glamourous car - but it had incredible sentimental value. Just like us.
We'll feel like millionaires in Ferraris when we get back to full speed on the smooth-flowing, sunny motorways of our lives.
(My motorway is not the M50 by the way - that's more of a car park)
Kath
Ha ha I'm laughing at your post too . Morris minor was probably very reliable in its day. Yes looking forward to getting back out on the highway, as they say in the USA
Thank you ladies for replies,glad to help and have enjoyed reading your descriptions of the detour we all took.
The sat nav has been reprogrammed hopefully it will keep me on the right road from here.
Thinking of you all
Xx
Ladies;
Reading your posts brought this rock anthem to mind.... A bit of the up and onwards mentality in it I think
Good health Wilmaone and everyone else here xx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm5DPlNC ... ata_player
Well done Girl xxxx
Well done you're an inspiration and thanks. Hopefully we will all get to your stage and be as good.