This came from one of the groups I'm in. I asked her permission to share this as part of my mission to challenge the pink, fluffy and sexy breast cancer messaging. MBC=metastatic breast cancer
"You know it's MBC when
- when you never shed a tear about a mastectomy because you were on a mission to see "stable"
- when you requested to have surgically induced menopause at 38
- when you wave off the nurse's question: "are you suffering from hot flashes, fatigue and joint pain" with "Yes, yes and yes, least of my concerns, next"
- when breast cancer month/ runs don't mention your disease because you represent the antithesis to their hope
- when you're working on legacy stuff for your now small children
- when death announcements are a...