Have they met me? I am not someone that you feel sorry for. I am the original mean girl.
People forgave me for the reasons they forgive anybody who should just be defenestrated. They loved the stories, even if they did not believe them. Cancer is the excuse for everything. Now it’s as if cancer is the problem, and not me. It is the long game. Advanced breast cancer is not a death sentence. In 2015, a drug called Ibrance was approved by the FDA on the fast track as a treatment. If you have watched network TV at all recently, you have seen it advertised, with a woman jogging with her dog and making salad with her kids and sitting in a gas-guzzling car with her husband. The commercials have shown up during Law & Order reruns and new episodes of 60 Minutes – and everywhere. It is a capsule I take most days with another pill.
Therapy and medication and lots of it saved me. I worked to get better. I am the Israelites in Mizraim with that. I subscribe to the whole collective mumbo jumbo, and all of it works. If you strive to save your own life, indeed you will.