[Pam P]

Thanks for all the suggestions and offers to stay with you if I got into an out of state trial site!

To comment on some of the suggestions:
1) taxotere - I had so many awful side effects the 6 months I was on it I would only agree to take that again as a LAST resort. Pleural effusions - could hardly breathe, tear duts ruined resulting in several eye surgeries and jones tubes, severe problems with eating - everything tasted rancid, very weak, tired, etc.
2) abraxane - my onc. doesn't want to use it yet since I've been on taxol now for a long time - will keep it for down the road.
3) aromasin, arimidex - & others in that category - my onc. doesn't want to give that along with a chemo. He says the work on different principles. The chemo working best on fast growing cells, the hormonals slowing down the growth/divisions so they don't mix really effectively. He said he'd be willing to put me back on it at some point when I'm not also doing a chemo (Lord knows when that might be!) even though when I was on femara, and then faslodex they didn't work for me anyway.
4) I'll see what the research nurse says next week, but I can't find a t-dm1 that looks like I qualify, so guess it will be the navelbine. I hope I can get a year of stable out of it like last time - don't know if that's possible but it would be wonderful. Then maybe there'd be a t-dm1 opening for me.