Living the life
(23) Time has marched on and I have now absorbed Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) into my life as though it's just a part of who I am. I am no longer shocked, overwhelmed or even overly bothered by having this disease. I'm not sure whether this is due to my innate personality or whether it's a normal phase once the shock value of the disease has worn off and life has settled into some sort of routine which encompasses it, but it does seem to me that MBC and I are at peace with each other. We are no longer in competition with each other and I accept it as a lifestyle matter. I have always looked at life differently from the way most other people seem to, so I should have expected this, I guess. I constantly see articles headed "My Fight With Breast Cancer", "Breast Cancer Warrior" and similar analogies with a warlike state. This isn't how I see it at all. I don't see myself in "the fight of my life", as I've also seen it ...