still going

Thanks Di for your comments.

I know there are others so much worse off than myself but as you know when your down you only think of yourself and what your going through and you feel lonel. I think in reality you are worse off than myself as in your chemo and have had a full masectomy where as I am on Herceptin and have had no surgery other than a lung biopsy to find out if the cancer nodes in my lung was breast cancer or not which they were... I had to wait for that to be decided before they would start treatment or do anything.

Di, I never thought of taking the tablets instead of having the IV in the way you have said and after reading how you feel like your doing 'nothing' taking the tablets I can understand why you feel that way. I too travel 2 hours for treatment and to see my oncologist but fortunately only every 6 weeks in between I have my Herceptin treatment at my local hospital which is only 20min away. You are right when you are having the IV you can see it going in so you know it is actively doing something where as popping pills would feel totally different.

We do have one advantage which I do keep reminding myself -  there are other treatments they can turn to when this one stops working and they are still doing a lot of  researching to come up with other treatments etc all the time so by the time one stops there will always be others to take its place. This knowledge does help keep me positve when I stop feeling sorry for myself!!!

I am sure your new drug is working wonders for you and thank you for reading my little rant writing it did help me a little to put things back into perception.

Take care

Sue