I don't have the experience yet but I know what your going through and the uncertainty of what's to come is the most frightening, my mum was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer nearly 7 years ago it had spread to the lymph and bones, and during this time various other areas she has had several chemos hormonal drugs but just before Xmas she had back pain took them 2 weeks to do a thorough MRI and over 4 weeks to tell us it was now in the back and brain she has been having radiotherapy on back and brain this last week and has 2 more sessions left what treatment is available after, not a lot, all I have been told is prognosis not good, im 38 my son is 8 and the thought of her deteriorating before our eyes losing her that way is what's keeping me awake at night, no-one can tell you what to expect just what might, will she have seizures, will she lose her memory her mobility, her ability to speak, eat, and how long will they be like this for, my mum has no husband, no partner so it's difficult that there's few people around to help, u feel helpless and everything is totally out of our control, it's like a nightmare your waiting to wake up from, I keep telling myself she is alive today and hopefully will be tomoz, I've booked a couple nights away by the seaside in February and just pray she will.still be well enough, I've never wrote anything on a forum like this before but I just wanted you to know your not alone in this, there's many of us struggling at the moment xxx

I don't have the experience yet but I know what your going through and the uncertainty of what's to come is the most frightening, my mum was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer nearly 7 years ago it had spread to the lymph and bones, and during this time various other areas she has had several chemos hormonal drugs but just before Xmas she had back pain took them 2 weeks to do a thorough MRI and over 4 weeks to tell us it was now in the back and brain she has been having radiotherapy on back and brain this last week and has 2 more sessions left what treatment is available after, not a lot, all I have been told is prognosis not good, im 38 my son is 8 and the thought of her deteriorating before our eyes losing her that way is what's keeping me awake at night, no-one can tell you what to expect just what might, will she have seizures, will she lose her memory her mobility, her ability to speak, eat, and how long will they be like this for, my mum has no husband, no partner so it's difficult that there's few people around to help, u feel helpless and everything is totally out of our control, it's like a nightmare your waiting to wake up from, I keep telling myself she is alive today and hopefully will be tomoz, I've booked a couple nights away by the seaside in February and just pray she will.still be well enough, I've never wrote anything on a forum like this before but I just wanted you to know your not alone in this, there's many of us struggling at the moment xxx