Hello, I’m 59yo, my name is Susan, and I’ve just had a belated birthday present of breast cancer from the Breastscreen Assessment Clinic at Liverpool NSW. I’m booked to see my gp tomorrow with an envelope to find out about getting a referral to a surgeon and whatever else needs to be done with a “garden variety breast cancer which is a 10 cm tumour” as they said when they broke the news… I’m a bit overwhelmed and I feel very unprepared and maybe because it was at breastscreen and they don’t have a lot of time to do anything but say it’s bad news and here is the paperwork and not much else… I guess my big fear is the treatment as I believe that the tumour size is the concern, I feel I’ve just been pushed/pulled into this nightmare while I was minding my own business. I appreciate being able to put my story here and commune with others getting started on their own cancer journeys.
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