Just jumping onto this - have you checked if your life insurance company offers counselling? I wasn’t aware until I posted on another forum and contacted Zurich who offered me 6 face to face sessions with a local counsellor. They were really quick in sending a referral to them and I have found this to be so beneficial.
All the best xx
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Never apologise for being real!! Such a hard place for you to be in right now. Really hoping that latest drug has stopped any spreading. It has a good track record of shrinking cancers. Sending lots of love 
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Hi I just read your post thank you for sharing and supporting advice you gave. I to am 9 months on Letrozole and feeling effects of bone pain I have oestepina and stenosis of neck and back. Im awaiting surgery and trying to manage pain and stay active.
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Thank you, but I don’t have life insurance x.
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Thank you x
Good luck with your surgery, I hope it helps with your pain. Side effects of treatment can sometimes feel worse than the cancer can’t they x.
It is rotten that we all find ourselves in a position we don’t want to be in. I was stable on Letrozole but 6 weeks ago I learned I now also have liver secondaries. I’m devestated but still alive and hope to keep it that way for many years to come. There are many treatments but no guarantees. I am sending love and a massive hug to everyone.
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I am glad I may have given you a bit of moral support.
However awful life can be, I try and have a good laugh every day.
Sometimes it’s the sheer ridiculousness of losing your indivuality in hospital. One that springs to mind - I was wandering out of a side room in one those terrible hospital gowns, with my bare bottom hanging out, bovver boots on, striding along a corridor trying to get a scan done, when I espied I could be seen by everyone in the waiting room. When I got in to the room for a scan I was placed on a moving conveyor going towards a machine like a polo mint. this was going to scan round my top half. Before that a young man asked me a lot of questions one of which was, “are you taking viagra?”
From my supine position I replied
“I am not a man and I do not have a penis!”
I have discovered since that viagra is a drug taken by some people who have heart disease
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Hi my name is Liz I’ve just recently been diagnosed with breast cancer I don’t know what stage but on the book the doctor wrote down Estimated from biopsy Grade 2,Invasive Mucinaus cancer Er positive
Pr Negative ,Her 2 Negative can anyone please help and explain what does this mean I really appreciate it thank you 
I’m a bit scary with financial stuff but while I was off sick following radiotherapy to get my brain going I overhauled my finances and discovered I had critical illness cover that I had taken out 30 years previously . It was only a tiny monthly premium and I had forgotten about it - but it paid out . If there’s the slightest doubt in your mind about what you have in the way of insurance it’s worth checking . Xx
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I was exactly the same with critical illness insurance… as a pregnant single mum to be, 23 years ago, I decided to add critical illness to my life insurance.
I paid £26 a month for 23 years and had totally forgotten all about it (it was even registered to my old address)… until July when I was diagnosed with bilateral cancer and I joined this forum and read about similar situation.
After lots of phone calls they paid out the lot! I have since recommended everyone I know, particularly young women (you never think you will need it) to look into it xx
I’m so sorry to hear that.
It does take some time to get a full diagnosis and for all the scans to be done. The grade explanation is here as is the hormone and HER2 part. It sounds like you’re hormone positive and HER2 negative. Diagnosis | Breast Cancer Now
I hope you get the full picture and treatment plan soon.
sending you a huge big hug. I can’t imagine, but what ever you feel is legitimate and part of your process. Sending you a huge virtual hug. A
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