I am 42 years old. I was diagnosed December 9, 2009 with stage 4 breast cancer with multiple mets to my liver. I was 38, with a 10-year-old son and an 11-year-old daughter. As of this day this was my new life as a metastatic breast cancer patient for the rest of my life. Out of the last five years I've been on continuous chemo, and I visit my oncologist every week to get bloodwork. I also have to be on blood thinners for the rest of my life because all the chemo I have had gave me multiple blood clots in my pelvic area. Because of all the poison pumped into my body, I have lost all my hair in the past, gained weight, I have daily headaches, my hands and feet always hurt and I cannot concentrate on what I read most of the time.  Math is out of the question including counting money, and I also can't remember alot of things. Cancer has taken so much from me.  I'm out of breath all the time; some days I just lie in bed. I try to live life to the fullest but sometimes it just doesn't work. I worry most about my children; they do not have a relationship with their father... What's going to happen when I'm gone?  Those of us that are stage 4 try not to worry and live life a day at a time, but it's the hardest thing in the world. We face tests, cat scans, Pet scans, blood transfusions, shots, tumor marker tests - I could go on and on. We just do what we have to do to survive. Now its OUR turn to be heard.