Hi there one and all
Just want to help reasure all the ladies with secondary mets .
I had BC + liver mets in 2002 - ( so I am now + 6 yrs on ) and have had a few different treatments and have had ups and downs like all of us ( also leuceamia in 2004) but in general life has been good and still is . I am sure that there are other ladies who have been fighting for just as long and even longer but we tend not to shout too loud as we dont want to temp fate.
So keep up the fight and I wish you all luck
Luv jANE
Hi Jane,
What an inspiring posting. Whilst I realise that some of us will not make it so far it is fabulous to hear of someone who is 6 years on from their secondary diagnosis. My secondary diganosis (bones) came last October so its all quite new and scary to me and I keep wondering how long I have, whether I will get to eat all the stuff in my cupboard with use by 2009 and such like… I think this preoccupation with how much time left possibly dillutes as time passes.
So thanks you Jane for taking the time to share your secondary experience. I for one certainly found it really uplifting.
Lots of luck & good wishes to you,
Angee xxxx
Thank you too from me, Jane, for sharing this really encouraging news with us. I was diagnosed with liver mets last June and it certainly has been a rollercoaster of emotions since then. Am due to see the oncologist tomorrow to learn the “new plan” (as the last one failed), and your post has certainly given me a lift today.
That preoccupation with “how long” is certainly there for me as well even though I know nobody can answer that question because we are all so different and respond differently. It would be really good if that did dilute as time passes, Angee - it’s driving me a bit mad at times because I just feel I can’t plan anything too far in advance. Partly though that is also not knowing what treatment next and how that might affect me - so maybe I will feel more upbeat tomorrow after my appt.
All the very best, Jane - and thank you again for taking the time out to post
Kay xx
Hi Jane
Thank you so much for sharing this news with us. I was dx with bc and liver mets in July 07, and was terrified of my future, as got 2 kids, 4 and 1 yr old!!! Your post gives me hope and determination. I know, like Angee said that not everyone will be so lucky, but to read posts like yours give us all renewed hope. So thank you again, for sharing this.
Long may it continue for you and fingers crossed for the rest of us.
Love
Dawn
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Hi there girls
I am glad to be of help and I know how you feel - I still get days when I can only think about ’ how much longer’ and yes I went through the same stage at first thinking that I’d never see the end of the year. And each year its the same . But I am still here and very stubborn as I hate the cancer with all my heart - and will give it as big a fight as I can
Keep going girls we are all in it together
Luv jANE
Hi Jane,
Thank you for your post. That is certainly good news to hear. I get pre-occupied with “how long” too, wonder if I’m going to see digital TV due in 2009 in my area!!!
Allie
I am feeling positive too at present. A year ago was diagnosed with breast cancer and lung spread. Was told surgery unlikely, but following chemo, my lung mets have shrunk and with Tamoxifen, they have stabilised. So am under the knife on 27th Feb. There is no lump left in the breast so the tissue and lymph nodes are being removed and then I am having rads. I have never been so excited about surgery.
Don’t our goalposts really change…
Love to you all
Heather
So glad to see you are still doing well, Jane. It is really nice of you to check in and let us all know it. Keep up the good work and keep calling back to see us…
Love Jenny
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Hi jANE (I remember the lovely story behind the small j in jANE) and how lovely to hear from you.
Angee I remember looking at sell by dates myself…I’ve now into my 5th year of living with bone mets.
HeatherLou…Good Luck for the op, great news your treatment’s worked so well.
Belinda…xx
Hi jANE,
Fantastic posting to read, I was diagnosed September 2005 with inflammatory bc with bone mets dx three weeks later. I also do the "will I still be here to see whatever may be being arranged at the time. This Christmas I felt more positive than the two previous ones and its the usual story on good days hardly think about it and on bad days still tend to get bogged down by it. Keep up the good work!
Denio x
Good for you jANE - i hate this cr**py disease with a vengeance too.
xxx
Thanks for your comments jANE, I am 39 and have 2 girls 9 and 6 - I have just been diagnosed with secondaires in my lungs and liver and am absolutely terrified so your posting is a real inspiration at the moment, just what I needed to hear. Thanks
Hi jANE
Thanks for posting, 6 years - that gives me such hope as I rarely find out about those ‘ahead’ of me as it is usually those ‘behind’ me that I hear about. I am five years post diagnosis for mets in liver and feeling fine.
The other posts made me smile - looking forward to surgery, measuring our years by sell-by dates and digital TV - what are we like? You have to see the humour in it or we would go mad!
Thanks for the news and the smiles
Blondie