https://onlinecommunity.cancercouncil.com.au/t5/Living-with-and-beyond-cancer/2nd-anniversary-coming-up/m-p/9608#M1088 Hi Carme I know what you mean. I don't think I will ever feel confident enough to call myself a survivor. Congratulations to you for making two years. It is just a day at a time for all of us, enjpy them Rikki Mon, 03 Sep 2012 05:51:01 GMT Rikki 2012-09-03T05:51:01Z https://onlinecommunity.cancercouncil.com.au/t5/Living-with-and-beyond-cancer/2nd-anniversary-coming-up/m-p/9607#M1087 On Thursday it will be 2yrs since I was diagnosed with cancer...can I call myself a survivor yet? I don't feel so lucky. Argh. Sun, 02 Sep 2012 10:18:26 GMT https://onlinecommunity.cancercouncil.com.au/t5/Living-with-and-beyond-cancer/2nd-anniversary-coming-up/m-p/9607#M1087 Carme 2012-09-02T10:18:26Z https://onlinecommunity.cancercouncil.com.au/t5/Living-with-and-beyond-cancer/2nd-anniversary-coming-up/m-p/9608#M1088 Hi Carme I know what you mean. I don't think I will ever feel confident enough to call myself a survivor. Congratulations to you for making two years. It is just a day at a time for all of us, enjpy them Rikki Mon, 03 Sep 2012 05:51:01 GMT https://onlinecommunity.cancercouncil.com.au/t5/Living-with-and-beyond-cancer/2nd-anniversary-coming-up/m-p/9608#M1088 Rikki 2012-09-03T05:51:01Z https://onlinecommunity.cancercouncil.com.au/t5/Living-with-and-beyond-cancer/2nd-anniversary-coming-up/m-p/9609#M1089 I think that you can call yourself a survivor . I puzzled over that a while ago too. Now ,I think ,I'm alive and cancer free for now so I am a survivor . This can change any time but right now this is how it is . It is over 2 years since my diagnosis and 2 years since treatment ended . Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:51:53 GMT https://onlinecommunity.cancercouncil.com.au/t5/Living-with-and-beyond-cancer/2nd-anniversary-coming-up/m-p/9609#M1089 SILLY 2012-09-06T15:51:53Z https://onlinecommunity.cancercouncil.com.au/t5/Living-with-and-beyond-cancer/2nd-anniversary-coming-up/m-p/9610#M1090 I want to add that I feel that I was unlucky to have had cancer but lucky that I am still here in a not-as -badly -off -as -some state . Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:55:20 GMT https://onlinecommunity.cancercouncil.com.au/t5/Living-with-and-beyond-cancer/2nd-anniversary-coming-up/m-p/9610#M1090 SILLY 2012-09-06T15:55:20Z https://onlinecommunity.cancercouncil.com.au/t5/Living-with-and-beyond-cancer/2nd-anniversary-coming-up/m-p/9611#M1091 I feel the same Silly. My 2nd anniversary of diagnosis is in one month and I count myself a survivor. Treatment is over and I'm still here. Cancer may one day come back but that doesn't stop me from being a survivor now. Lucky or unlucky? I was unlucky to get breast cancer at a relatively young age - I read that only 2% of diagnoses are in women under 35. So that was unlucky and annoying. But I was also lucky that it was diagnosed before it had spread and I came through treatment better than most. So on the whole I count myself as lucky. Sat, 08 Sep 2012 05:08:46 GMT https://onlinecommunity.cancercouncil.com.au/t5/Living-with-and-beyond-cancer/2nd-anniversary-coming-up/m-p/9611#M1091 Allicat 2012-09-08T05:08:46Z https://onlinecommunity.cancercouncil.com.au/t5/Living-with-and-beyond-cancer/2nd-anniversary-coming-up/m-p/9612#M1092 Congratulations Carmel! I've only just passes my first anniversary, and like Allycat, I was unlucky to get cancer but lucky that they found it early. My take on things is that I am cancer free at the moment, but you never know if it will return or not, so make the most of life whilst you can! Keep yourself busy just enjoying life!, Sat, 08 Sep 2012 09:33:27 GMT https://onlinecommunity.cancercouncil.com.au/t5/Living-with-and-beyond-cancer/2nd-anniversary-coming-up/m-p/9612#M1092 The_Rowan 2012-09-08T09:33:27Z https://onlinecommunity.cancercouncil.com.au/t5/Living-with-and-beyond-cancer/2nd-anniversary-coming-up/m-p/9613#M1093 Hi Carmel, I am going through my second ani where I had 2 lots of surgery and my story is on line if u want to have a peep. I was diagnosed in 2010 with breast cancer on the right side. I know what u are going through. I didn't have a recontruction then I didn't have kemo or radiation also. I think myself that I am cancer free. Then Rowan please hang in there as it is so strongly emotional. If u haven't had a recontruction like me I know what it is like for u. Yes it is so unlucky to get cancer. Glenys xx Sun, 23 Sep 2012 14:52:28 GMT https://onlinecommunity.cancercouncil.com.au/t5/Living-with-and-beyond-cancer/2nd-anniversary-coming-up/m-p/9613#M1093 glenys48woods 2012-09-23T14:52:28Z https://onlinecommunity.cancercouncil.com.au/t5/Living-with-and-beyond-cancer/2nd-anniversary-coming-up/m-p/9614#M1094 Hi Allicat, It is a shame that u had cancer at a young age if this is right for me to say this to u. I could say to u that treatment and surgery is over that we are still here. I would say that the emotional side of things are traumatic even after the second ani but not as much as the 1st one. I am trying to get used "to my friend" (my falsie breast) as my counseling put it. It is a kelo in weight. I don't wear it if I don't want too as it has been off me all day with no bra. I want to rest from it. Trying to get used of the weighty falsie as it drives me up the wall. Having no weight till I put it on me then I lose the weight when I take it off. I makes no sense of having a falsie when u want your natural ones on u. Glenys xx Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:38:13 GMT https://onlinecommunity.cancercouncil.com.au/t5/Living-with-and-beyond-cancer/2nd-anniversary-coming-up/m-p/9614#M1094 glenys48woods 2012-09-25T13:38:13Z https://onlinecommunity.cancercouncil.com.au/t5/Living-with-and-beyond-cancer/2nd-anniversary-coming-up/m-p/9615#M1095 I had my second anniversary while I was on holiday in America. Because of the time difference the actual Melbourne-time anniversary was on the evening before. It was about 10.30am on 7 October 2010 when I was given my cancer diagnosis. I remember sitting in the waiting room beforehand with the only worry on my mind the fact that I was going to be late for work. The time difference thing made the anniversary seem a bit less relevant although I still thought about it. If I had been at work I would have been writing the date all day which I think would have been bothersome so it was good to be on holiday. Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:08:37 GMT https://onlinecommunity.cancercouncil.com.au/t5/Living-with-and-beyond-cancer/2nd-anniversary-coming-up/m-p/9615#M1095 Allicat 2012-10-16T10:08:37Z