Mets five year anniversary!

sandilee
sandilee Member Posts: 1,843
edited June 2016 in Stage IV/Metastatic Breast Cancer ONLY

I just realized that this month is my five year anniversary since my mets diagnosis, where mets were discovered throughout my spine and ribs. I was in pretty bad shape five years ago- couldn't walk without help because my legs were numb, couldn't drive as I had to wear a back brace. A couple of months after radiation and Faslodex, I recovered all feeling in my limbs and I found my "new normal," but honestly, I really didn't expect to feel this well five years later. I am so grateful for my wise doctors and my treatments. And for all of the wonderful women on this site!

The cancer has found a new home in my liver, but right now it's small and under control. It does put things in a little bit different place in my mind, as mets just in the bones seemed like something I could handle forever. I still feel healthy, though, and every day is a blessing.

I'm going this morning to my weekly Mah Jongg group- five wonderful ladies, two of whom have had breast cancer, and one who lost her daughter to this beast. A group who gets it! Next week my husband of 45 years and my 31 year old daughter and I are going to Quebec City (on my bucket list) for a last little memory-making trip for the three of us before her wedding in September. I am definitely planning to be around for my 66th birthday in February, and hopefully, I'll have more good years ahead. Time really flies, though, doesn't it? I really can't believe it has already been five years!


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