A Day in the Life With Metastatic Breast Cancer
A Day in the Life with Metastatic Breast Cancer Good morning, I’m Parker, and like Camille, Violetta, or Mimi - those tragic literary ladies hacking their way through life and love - I am here to sing my song. And perhaps, to offer some found wisdom and advice from my travels. Travails? Potato, potahhto. February of 2021, I was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. Yeah. Scary stuff. But, as I am well past the panic and hysteria that are the early hallmarks of this condition, I find I am focusing on a strong sense of generativity- a need to provide what I hope will be useful information on a day in the life with terminal breast cancer. Initially, I’d thought to simply write a blog, but after discussion with a good friend with the same diagnosis, I decided to get past my vanity, show my face, and record my voice, as well. She was right - no part of our lives has been unaffected, a...