Please remember - we are each UNIQUE!

Rague

I have recently noticed that there are many new here. It seems that often there are a lot of statements "This will happen" because that's what I did/what I experienced.

We are each so unique - we can only give our experiences - not that whatever we have experienced will happen/not happen to anyone else.

Winyan - The Power Within

Susan

(Edited for typing errors)

laughs_a_lot

Bumping this up
I agree with your statement. I did however, appreciate knowing what to watch out for. Not all the chemo side effects occured for me. I belive some of this was the result of a reduction in worry. The totally unknown is difficult for me. There is some comfort in knowing you are slightly psychologically prepared for an unpleasant occurance. For me it is like have a candle while walking at night versus walking in total darkness.

I am glad we are all different as some of the stories here are rather difficult. However, it is good to know that there is success in coping with even the most difficult of circumstances.

disneyfan2008

very good point....
Denise

very good point....

Denise

madsters1

I agree! It is VERY helpful
I agree! It is VERY helpful in just knowing that someone has been where you're about to go or where you are right now, especially the very scary unkown when we're first diagnosed. However, we should be careful to distiguish between across the board facts and personal experience. Truly each of our experiences with cancer is different. Thanks for pointing that out.

MAJW

madsters1 said:

I agree! It is VERY helpful
I agree! It is VERY helpful in just knowing that someone has been where you're about to go or where you are right now, especially the very scary unkown when we're first diagnosed. However, we should be careful to distiguish between across the board facts and personal experience. Truly each of our experiences with cancer is different. Thanks for pointing that out.

Susan...
I think as you said it can be scary for the newbies.....I've tried and perhaps been unsuccessful In some posts to stress this is my PERSONAL experience....and that everyone IS indeed in their DNA as well as their breast cancer...no one is going to experience the exact same thing...perhaps similar...I've had some excellent advice in the plus 3 years I have been on this board...and I appreciate it...

Hugs, Nancy

LoveBabyJesus

Thanks for posting this Susan! I was one who thought I was going to get ALL side effects from chemo. I even thought I had to buy pampers!!!!! Ignorance on my part.

We are all different so we react to treatments differently. Very true.

Rague

MAJW said:

Susan...
I think as you said it can be scary for the newbies.....I've tried and perhaps been unsuccessful In some posts to stress this is my PERSONAL experience....and that everyone IS indeed in their DNA as well as their breast cancer...no one is going to experience the exact same thing...perhaps similar...I've had some excellent advice in the plus 3 years I have been on this board...and I appreciate it...

Hugs, Nancy

3 yrs soon
Aug will be 3 yrs for me - and yes I too have learned so much here during this time. So glad it's here. I try to always make it clear that my experiences have been mine and not what someone else will have (as no one will exactly). But any combination of what I've been through and others have are posssible. Perhaps it doesn't always come off that way as the written word is so open to the interpurtation (sp?) of the reader when read on a 'sterile' page without 'anything' oral or visual 'seen/heard'.

Winyan -The Power Within

Susan