Hi ladies, feel like the new kid on the block but just reading through your replies to each other makes me feel as if I have found some long distant family! Being a few steps behind possibly, or in front (will know more tomorrow), stay positive is my first bit of support! Even when it is difficult to see a good side to what is happening, I find writing very therapeutic. I have decided that even though I intend to beat this until medicine catches up with cancer, I am making a book for my unborn grandchild. Things that others may not know about me. Favourite poems, music, songs, words and a potted history of family with memory joggers for others to say, oh yes, I remember that! I had triple neg back in 2013 with 12/15 lymph nodes affected. Chemo was a rough ride but I am a fighter, as all of you must be too. Then radiotherapy and a prognosis of 30% of making it 10 years. That was a red rag to a bull, I was not going to be beaten by cancer!! For the past 18 months I have been back and forth to my GP with pain in my foot then hip and spine. I have been diagnosed with everything from plantar fasciitis to bursitis. I have seen osteopaths, podiatrists and colonoscopists. Finally in desperation I managed to get back in touch with the breast care nurses and since then it has been a roller coaster ride. Initially oncologist could find nothing wrong with my bloods but to be sure he hadn't missed anything requested an MRI and CT. Sure enough my gut instinct of 'listening to my body' was right and the cancer was back in my pelvis and hip. Unfortunately because it was not caught earlier, my bones have very little holding me up but I am starting injections and radiotherapy to try and increase my bones. Not sure I can add much to offer reassurance but I do think a positive attitude definately scares cancer and I intend to fight once again especially as I found out at Christmas I am to be a grandmother for the first time and I intend to be around for that!! I would be interested to see if anyone else had problems getting their local GP's to listen and take them seriously. I saw three different GP's and asked every single time if it could be the cancer coming back, only to be given another possible prognosis. I truly thought I was going mad or worse, becoming a hypochondriac! If nothing else, I would like for GP's to be made aware of how much more vulnerable Triple Negatives are. Wishing you all a healthier 2017, Sue
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