Hi all,

Just wanted to introduce myself after signing up to your forum. My name is Penny and I live with my husband of 28 years, three of my four children  (all girls), and my grandson Eoin - now 6 years old ! my other daughter and my grandaughter live just up the road so we are all close, thank goodness . 

I was diagnosed with stage 3a invasive breast cancer about 6 to 8 months after losing my dad in 2011. I completed treatment towards end of 2012 and returned to work.

A few years later I had been suffering for a while with a progressive and annoying malaise .  Nothing I could put my finger on and with no specific areas of complaint. we took the family out for the day on my Grandaughter's birthday and I just couldn't carry on. so i slept in the car and my husband took me to the drs the next day.

After two weeks in hospital they found the metastases on my liver.

It has been a downward spiral since then, still struggling to find a chemo or treatment to slow down the progression .  it is now also in my bones and my lungs, and I am now trying out on Eribulin  (second cycle with progression CT planned for just after the third cycle).

Having a bit of a wobbly day mentally today - contemplating going back to work on Monday after a fortnight off trying to regain some energy.

Hope this finds most of us in a good and positive state of mind this Remembrance weekend,

Penny xXx