Facing the Storm-8

Countdown to Christmas

The girls had just broken up from school and it was a wonderful feeling of being together at home just 3 days ahead of Christmas.

Beautiful flowers arrived. Beautiful gifts arrived. Beautiful words came flooding in from all directions on the lead up to Christmas.

I was able to tell friends and family that all was good and I was on the road to recovery.

Apart from a feeling of tightness across my chest, the pain wasn’t too bad at all.

The worst and strangest feeling was a tingling feeling in my finger tips which did gradually ease but left my arm feeling numb and extremely tender to touch. I’d been forewarned about this so it wasn’t a complete surprise.

My mastectomy procedure had included removing clusters of lymph nodes from my armpit on the side where the tumour had grown, to test them for cancer cells and to reduce the risk of any cells thinking about going travelling. Every morning, to reduce the risk of a clot, I was in charge of my blood-thinning injections into my tummy. After a while it got a bit sore and bruised; it felt like pushing pins into a pin cushion, trying to find a new space. We also had to measure and record the fluid loss on each side into the drains, which Ian did for me at the same time every evening.

My first book – ‘See the Colour in the Clouds’ tells the story of my first journey with breast cancer, when my daughters were just 8yrs and 5yrs, and how they played such an important role in my recovery.

See the Colour in the Clouds – by Stefanie Sixsmith – Autobiography and Memoir
Published 30th November 2021 by Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd®

Kindle edition and paperback available from:
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Also available from: Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd. http://www.austinmacauley.com/book/see-colour-clouds
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