Worried about BC Recurrence

I have been having a really hard time the last week just thinking about whether or not I am going to die from this BC recurrence.  It just seems like every time I watch a movie or read an article about triple negative breast cancer and not having done chemo the first time around, my chances of living more than two years after getting this recurrence are pretty slim.  I know there have been alot of new treatments and drugs and such, but I just keep hearing "two years" more often than I'd like to.  Any comments?  I'd appreciate it.

Lisa B,

Thank you so much for surrounding me with such love.  After I posted this, I thought and thought about what I had written.  I thought about my cancer and whether or not I would be alive next year at this time.  But then I also thought about how lucky I am that I have good doctors and a good treatment going and even if it doesn't work - there are more things to try.  And then I realized that there was nothing I could have done differently to change my outcome.  Except for one thing - I should have insisted on more tests.  Blood tests are just not enough.  We need to be vigilant as you say, constantly vigilant.  And I must question everything.  The last week (since my last chemo treatment) the cough I was told I would have after radiation and which had subsided came back again.  I called my oncologist and he said it was probably the chemo that kind of aggravated it.  Well, today I talked to my radiation onc nurse and she told me to continue taking a cough medicine the doctor gave me.  So I've decided to give it 5 more days and if it isn't gone by Friday, I'm calling the doctor back so they can do an X-ray or something to make sure this isn't an additional problem.  I don't care what they say, I am going to demand something to make sure. 

I've tried posting a reply here a couple of times this morning, but something is going on with my computer, so I am going to quickly post the link to oprah.com where you can send in show ideas.  I think it might be helpful if more of us did that.  I always mention tnbcfoundation.org in the submission.  Maybe Maalak Rock knows someone who could help with this request.  I don't know if she reads any of these posts or not.  I've even mentioned her name in my first story submission. 

Dear English Jan, I've taken antibiotics for 4 or 5 days but that was usually for a bladder infection.  I am glad you talked to your BS about this.  Did you have sentinel node biopsy, too?  I hope this is something minor - gosh - we just don't need any added trouble going through all this.