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Thanks so much @arpie for your reply and all the good work you do. I have just filled in my profile.......I live in the outer eastern metro area in Melbourne. I had applied to join the Living with Metastatic Cancer group but was happy to post my story to the broader group in the meantime as I found it helpful in my earlier years to know that people can survive for 12+ years. I just used my intro story for the profile but added my suburb and also the fact that I am an old nurse......retired except that I still have an NDIS client I coordinate care for. I supported him while I was still working in community health and he has a brain tumor and terminal diagnosis. I think 50 years of nursing including some palliative care has helped me negotiate the public health system and not be intimidated by the medicos. I have have had an excellent oncologist for the last few years and she knows I am often one step ahead of blood tests and scans in knowing what is happening with my body and when my treatment needs a change!