Hi there beautiful people,
My amazing wife was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer back in May, this was discovered after attending a 5 year check up with the cancer team. She battled stage 2 HER+ with lymph node involvement almost 5 years to the date. At the 5 year appointment she mentioned a pain in her shoulder they recommend that it be checked over to rule anything suspicious out.
After receiving a PET scan the results came back and it wasn’t good news, they said you have cancer in your shoulder, liver and lymph nodes which are all incurable, after many scans, tests and biopsies we attended another appointment where they said it had also progressed to her lung but all of the areas were the same type of cancer as her initial breast cancer HER+ so could be treated with one set of drugs.
She started with an oral chemo tablet daily for 3 weeks then a week off, hormone injection every 4 weeks and bone strengthening injection every 4 weeks. She has been coping very well and looks extremely well.
Anyway she has had her first CT scan 3 weeks ago and we attended to get the results yesterday only to be told that the initial drugs are not working and everything has progressed, the next step is chemo therapy.
She has been the strongest and most positive person I have ever known through all of this where I have been so scared, yesterday’s appointment has really knocked her as we were hoping the first line treatment would have worked for a period we are now both really struggling and thinking the worst.
I am not really sure why I am even writing this I guess I’m looking for a little bit of hope out there from this awful situation.
I know everyone reading these posts must be on their own journey I hope and pray for positive outcomes for everyone.
xx
Hi MikeyC
Welcome to the forum and I am sorry to hear that your wife has been diagnosed with Secondary Breast Cancer and that the regime they put her on hasn't worked. It's perfectly understandable that you are both feeling scared and fearing the worst. There is a couple of other forums you could join as well as this one. There's the family and friends forum where you can get support from other family members whose loved ones are going through cancer treatment and there's the carer's only forum where you you can get support from others who are caring for loved ones going through treatment. Here's the links for both of those forums: Family and friends forum , Carers only forum . Your wife might also benefit from joining this forum and the breast cancer forum should she wish for further support herself. Here's the link to the breast cancer forum: Breast cancer forum .
Wishing you the your wife the best of luck with things going forward and hopefully the new drugs will work for her.
Best wishes
Daisy53
Hi BigAl1976
I'm sorry to hear that your wife has been admitted into hospital with sepsis. I was admitted into hospital with sepsis last month. I was given IV Antibiotics and made a full recovery. I hope she feels better soon.
Best wishes
Daisy53
Hey,
Glad to hear she’s feeling better, hopefully the treatment is a short term pause and I hope your appointment goes well tomorrow 
Were still waiting for a treatment plan which is sending us a bit mad to be honest we’re in limbo, my fear is when there’s no treatment things can progress further, but we just have to ride it out.
My wife has a call with the oncologist on Monday and hopefully they will give some dates to get moving.
Other than that we’re in the same boat, trying to live a normal life when everything feels bleak.
Anyway good luck to you guys for tomorrow my thoughts are with you.
MikeyC
