Sarah Harding

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Just read online the awful news that she has advanced breast cancer....poor girl...shes only 38 years old.

Girls Aloud weren’t around in the 90s. Also, there are countless incidents of the press hounding people who are sick into revealing their illness when they want to keep it private. She doesn’t court the limelight these days. She hasn’t posted on Instagram since 2018 before this post. I entirely believe that she wanted to keep it private but felt pressured to reveal it. If she wanted to tell the world she would surely have done so when she was first diagnosed. Plus there is nothing wrong with wanting to make it public anyway. It’s a devastating thing to find out when you’re only 38 years old so she can do exactly what she wants in my book.
Also, this isn’t the sort of cancer you recover from so sooner or later it will come out. She wanted to do it on her own terms I imagine.

@TheFormidableMrsC

I am currently a breast cancer patient although my situation is far better than Sarah Harding's. I was upset to read this news today, such a young woman with her whole life ahead of her. I have also been quite upset to read the recent various celebrity diagnosis of BC and try and avoid reading too much. I have just bought Jennifer Saunders book that documents her experiences with BC as she had exactly the same diagnosis as me. She is long past treatment and that gives me hope for my own future. I can't imagine how frightened Sarah Harding must be currently and I am so very sad for her. I do know, however, that even with mets, treatments are so very advanced now that people can live with them for a very long time...I've met a few during the course of my own treatment. I do hope this turns out to be the case for her.

@TheFormidableMrsC Just want to wish you all the best. I remember your threads.

Could I just say thanks to those who sent well wishes to me. I'd like to do the same for those also dealing with BC and indeed I am so glad to read of long term recoveries too

Poor Sarah, only three years older than me.
I hope she pulls through.

She won't. (See recent posts above) .

I’ve had breast cancer. People do need to understand that stage 4 is eventually terminal and yes average survival is 2 years.

So there’s no ‘battling’ this and succeeding.

However, treatments are getting better. If the spread is to bones rather than organs you can live a very long time. It’s how you respond to the treatments which is down to luck. Which is what cancer is about really. You’re either lucky or not.

I hope she has lots of support and if she’s at The Royal Marsfen she will be getting r best treatment.

I really wish we could change all the terminology around cancer. Especially the heat/she lost her battle with cancer’.

No they unfortunately died of cancer. They didn’t die because they didn’t fight hard enough.

💐 For you @TheFormidableMrsC.

I can’t believe this year it will be ten years since my diagnosis (at age 34!). At the time I had a 6 month old baby and a toddler and thought I’d never get to see them even go to school. Yet I’m now looking at my 10 and 11 year old. I took comfort in positive celebrity stories. Kylie had been diagnosed not long before me. Sending you all the best wishes.

@Delatron I had a 6 month old baby too. She’s at secondary now x

@tootyfruitypickle Ahh so good to hear positive stories. It’s awful being diagnosed at any time but with babies/young children, so tough.
Shitty disease!

@Delatron I am so glad to hear your positive story. I can't imagine how those of you with babies coped. I am a single parent in the truest sense to my 9 year old DS and I'll admit to some very dark moments although I have largely been very positive and just got on with it. I've tried to take comfort from fast margin clear surgery, clear nodes and fast starting active treatment. However, as we all know there are never any guarantees. There is an AMA I've noticed posted by somebody with stage 4. Have had to hide it, it'll keep me awake otherwise

Yes, I had to hide that one immediately. I'm Stage 4, and I've had bad news this week about the progression. I can't be doing with all the positive stories when I know exactly what it's like for me.

@BitOfFun I'm so sorry, that's just shite. I'm going to say nothing further because I understand where you're coming from, but you're in my thoughts and I hope you've got plenty of support round you

I'm so sorry to hear that BitOfFun

Just hopping back on here to offer arm squeezes, those who need one, take one. And an unmumsnetty [hug] too.

@BitOfFun, I'm really sorry to read that. Yours is a very familiar MN name so it's a bit of a shock. I really hope you don't suffer too much with the side effects of treatments, which seem.to add insult to injury.

@TheFormidableMrsC, long may your stability continue.

Thanks