Just One Person Trying to Figure Out Life with Metastatic Breast Cancer
About Me
My name is Tracy Pleva Hill and I was diagnosed with Stage IIb, triple negative breast cancer at the age of 32 in 2000. Ten months after completing chemotherapy in early 2001, I discovered that my disease had progressed to Stage IV. I have since spent seven years being infused with chemotherapeutics to manage my disease.
I have a beloved, beleaguered, adored husband who valiantly remains my most insistent supporter despite all the challenges and hardship breast cancer has brought us. (“In sickness and in health” – who saw this coming?) I also have an nine-year-old son who has never known me as anyone but a person living with cancer. So, I love my husband, raise my son, work full-time and run my home. Only, there is always the cancer.
I have a hard time remembering what I was like before breast cancer horned in on my unremarkable but happy life. It shapes me in unfamiliar ways. Living with Stage IV (advanced) breast cancer elevates the game. It means knowing that your cancer is never going to leave you and that you are going to be on some form of medication for as long as your body can withstand it or until the cancer overwhelms it.
I intend to make this f-ing disease work for every little bit it tries to take from me.
15 comments:
Sending an S.O.S. out for NED! I hope he appears on Wednesday! I'm thinking of you!
Kim
NED, come out, come out where ever you are! And stay, you silly!
Patience vibes coming to T. And a glass of wine.
You got it, lady.
Absolutely!!!!!!!!!!! L'Y,AJ
We want NED, we want NED, we want NED.
NED Rover, NED Rover, send Tracy right over.
Sara (jennamom)
NED is my fav man in the world...sending him your way!
Ok. NED it is. I'm on it!
-L
Ok. NED it is. I'm on it!
-L
Chick--you know Ned and stabilization/regression are there. We're pulling for them too!
--jess
Yep, pulling for NED ~Christy
Found NED at the shore this past weekend. I told him to get his ass off the beach and make his way back to you!
love, love, love!
JP
NED, you're needed man.
- Suzanne
I hope NED showed up today and you two had a great time.
Tammy
Just want you to know that we're still on the look out for NED.
Still calling for NED!
carol
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