[madubois63]

Pam - The medical field is starting to look at bc as a chronic disease (along the lines of diabetes). You do treatments until you are NED (no evidence of disease) or until the treatment stops working. Then you go on to the next treatment. That is what many of us have been doing. After 3 months of treatment, the mets to the lung were gone (took the liver a little longer). 2 years later, the mets came back to my lung, but they are small. I am being treated with Herceptin and responding very well. Almost gone!! Believe me, I do know how you feel (as do many others). Try to pick yourself up as soon as possible and don't dwell. Do what you have to do to fight this so that you can be NED again. Do not put your life on hold just because of this setback. Try to laugh as much as possible and spoil yourself too. Smell the flowers in the grocery store, play in the snow, get a manicure, eat chocolate chip cookies...what ever it takes.