My story

Hi Kathleen,

Thanks so much for your message.  I am so excited about this site.  I have had so many positive messages sent since I put the my story up a couple of days ago.  I had the flu about 7 weeks ago and then had pain in the back right side.  Took some antiinfammatories thinking it was muscular due to coughing.  Cut a long story short it then moved around to my upper sternum where it sat for a couple of weeks and just did not feel right.  Bone pain is a bit different from muscle pain I have decided!!  Anyway GP ordered a bone scan and that picked up that I had hot spot in the sternum (which also showed a fracture) parts of the ribs, spots in sacrum and lumbar area and pelvis.  Shock Horror!!!  CT scan followed and no invasion to the organs - thank God!  One positive!  Went to oncologist.  Bone biopsy and blood tests followed and the bone biopsy showed that the cancer was from the breast and it was OP and TP which was another positive.  Surprisingly to everyone due to both my previous experiences being DCIS in 2004 and 2008.  So I am currently having femera and injections once a month (first one in two weeks).  I am having radium for two weeks which started on Monday of this week to the sternum and then hopefully can get back to work post that.  I am feeling positive now after much reading and support from sites such as this re prognosis and I now know I do not have a death sentence.  It is treatable and I dont have to have chemo.  Another positive.  Did you have any radium or the injections to strengthen the bones.

Please keep in touch.  Lovely to hear from you xx