I’m back

Hi @onemargie and @TripleTea - sadly my news isn't great. have now had a PET scan and the cancer has spread to lymphnodes in the chest and neck. This means surgery is out - radiation too - field is too big. So started chemo (Eribulin, 2 weeks on, one week off - don't know much about this drug if anyone has any info/experience I am interested) yesterday, but the Onc wasn't very encouraging about my prognosis. My initial diagnosis was Triple Neg Inflammatory cancer, so I had 5 mths dose dense A/C(8wks) and taxol(12wks) prior to mastectomy. Inflammatory cancer is known to spread through the lymph system, but after mastectomy the three nodes they took were clear. Had 5 weeks radiation "to mop up any stragglers"(how my surgeon put it). And then 4 months Xeloda as an insurance policy - treatment went from Nov 2017 to end Dec 2018. And even with all that, heaps of exercise and a plant based diet, the f%$#&er still came back - it's an aggressive little blighter! Trying to get my head round this diagnosis - it's a lot to take in and you can only think about it a bit at a time. Concentrating mainly on what I can do to stay as healthy as possible for as long as possible so I can do as much nice stuff as possible with the ones I love!