Can a pdf form be emailed filled in and emailed again?

I have a client that would like a form that could be emailed to several different persons, progressively, so that each that received it could add something then forward to to the next until it was finally returned to the originator with all the comments on the form.
I am relatively new to creating interactive forms with acrobat but I cannot find anything that will allow this to happen short of submitting the form results to a database.
I would love to have some of those with more experience with acrobat forms to give me a suggestion.

Hi Cathy
I created a form from using Adobe Acrobat X Pro.  Like you I assumed that I would be able to send the form out, someone would fill out the form and send it back to me or whoever needed it.  Seems I was wrong.  Not only can you not save a copy either for your records or to complete at a later time, you cannot email the form without losing the field content.  This seems absolutely ridiculous that in this digital age, the only thing the recipient can do is complete the form, print it out and fax it... It took me a number of phone calls to Adobe's technical support line to find this out.  An utter waste of time it seems and the most ridiculous of 'Tools' functions.

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