Cancer is teh Suck

My mom has cancer.

The H-fam(ily) (mine) doesn't mess around with illness.   She went straight in with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer.   If you need the fancier diagnosis, it a rare cancer, since the H-fam likes that which is exclusive, called apocrine carcinoma.

For what it is worth, even after she had a PET scan showing the metastases, she still had clear mammograms.   I'm not saying that you should avoid mammograms as they are crap, but in a rare percentage, like my mom, they don't catch it.

For better or worse, her cancer is HER2 positive, which means they have something to target with chemo.   She's been through 6 rounds (a round constitutes an infusion of the professional poison once every 3 weeks) of taxotere+ Perjeta+ Herceptin.   The latter 2 are for the HER2+ component, and she will continue those 2 every 3 weeks indefinitely.   She has had 2 rounds without taxotere and is starting to feel like a human again.