I've been stage 4 since December 2020. I'm doing good. Greatly blessed!! I hurt almost every day and take oxycodone at night. It was so difficult when I was diagnosed. Now, I have good emotional days and then tough days. Be kind to yourself. None of us has an expiration date marked on us. We will live until we die. That may be years. My oncologist said that the goal is to die with cancer and not from cancer. That, for some reason made me feel better. Some people live 10 years or more with cancer.