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Hi Julia

Her results are really good the more positive results there are the better it is as the cancer has good treatment options and excellent preventatives such as the tamoxifen and herceptin. Looking forward to meeting Kay tomorrow.  .

Big toe I too hope your wife is like me.  Tripple negative having no treament that specifically targets it is as you know as particuarly nasty type.  My understanding is that with each year after treatment your risks drop.

 There were 4 of us in my little chemo group who were all 1965 birthdays (telling my age now ) we were all tripple negative which we considered odd as we all had the same birth year. We all had FEC chemo along with high dose dexamethazone followed by alot more radiotherapy doses than was normal at the time. I know I had 42 doses but I think eventually I had 46 I sort of lost count because I was initially set for 30 treatments. All 4 of us were certainly still here after 2 years because we met in clinic   

As you finish treatment you can't imagine the future, can't imagine a day when you don't think about it let alone next year. Gradually an hour goes by when you forget, then a day and then a week. It took 3 1/2 years for the physical scars to fade to the level they are at now.  My arm pit that was very twisted and puckered is completely invisible and what was a massive missing section in my breast has filled out.

I'm sharing this because I was lucky, I had family that had been through this so I could talk to and compare with them, not everyone is that lucky. With improvements in screening they are now finding cells at very early stages, my sister in law had a lumpectomy for precancerous cells.