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Originally Posted by Exoskeletal
Wow. So my mother just threw me the biggest curveball of my life.
My parents asked my brother and I to come downstairs for a minute and they turned the football game off which is never a good thing because the last time this happened my grandmother had passed and the time before the my grandfather had cancer (He's fine now).
My mother has breast cancer.
It's very very early stage 1 and my dad who never bullshits us said that everything will be fine and that the most my mother will get is a month of radiation but I'm just so ****ing scared right now. My mother is in high spirits and I will be too but right now I think I'm in a little shock because I just spent a couple minutes crying which is something I just don't really ever do. I get choked up during movies and sad things but I don't usually cry.
I don't know how to handle this really. I know she'll be fine and that my worrying will be for nothing because cancer is something that people get and fight and since this is so early the realistic chance of something happening to my mom is so slim but I'm scared as **** right now.
I don't know what I'd do if I lost her.
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Sorry to hear. If you need to look at it in a positive light, stage 1 is very treatable. Survival rates are very high. My GF won the fight with cancer last year, the only downside was the Peripheral Neuropathy (numbness in the hands/feet) from chemo treatments, which lingers for some time but usually eventually dissipates, and since your Mothers in stage 1, she'll likely get low-dose treatment, and not have to worry about losing her hair. It's a good thing she caught it early. Hoping for a full and speedy recovery.