Just wanted to say thank you all so much for your comments. It is really encouraging to hear your experiences. I will speak to the oncologist about the steroids and I hope I can be as brave as you have all been and go through with it. I fully understand that this is about potentially saving or extending my life but just goes to show how great my anxiety is about the treatment that I can even consider not having it. Am at least going away from here heartened to hear again may not be as bad as I feared.
