Hi @Sister,
I believe that we must be our advocates, and its important to do follow-up appointments, being vigilant with our health regardless of early stages or metastatic. Your life is never a waste of time, but fear can be and it can cripple you and lock you into places with no escape. It is important to put fear in its place by being purposeful and living life to the fullest.
I'm truly sorry to hear that your sister passed away from this dastardly disease. I have 3 sisters and a brother and 2 teenage children and I see the worry and fear in their faces, all the time. And I'm relatively stable with this.
All I hope is that the money that goes to research fundraised by a number of charity organisations will one day soon, have a cure or at least the knowledge of how to treat breast cancer without having a reoccurrence and have the knowledge of why BC likes to travel around the body like mine did without me knowing about it.
xo
