Stage IV breast cancer - bringing out the best and the worst of me

Joined February 2016
I am not likely to tweet about this again but please know there is no sadness but only joy surrounding This process. I will eventually feel no pain, not have to feel this kind of fight and I am no longer likely to field this kind of pain
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Thanks for kind thoughts/well wishes. Hospitalized since December. Now in hospice. This is a difficult tweet b/c I wanted this process to be faster and more private. Not ignoring you out of anger or lack of acceptance. Was hoping you’d find out when I’d passed. Sending only love.
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Hospitalized @cedarssinai with a feeding tube because still can’t keep food in. Pain med they gave me is making me puke. And cedars is refusing the only anti nausea that works. It’s a #cancer drug my doctor gives me all the time. Why do I have to fight for this? #exhausting
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I’m on a runaway train and no one knows where the control room is. #ThisIsStageIVCancer #WishTheyKnewMore #cancer #stageiv #BreastCancer #bcmets #bcsm #amsm
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Woman in the radiation waiting room approached me and asked to share some holistic therapies. I told her I was stage iv. She waved her hand, “That’s nothing,” she said, “A million stage iv patients have been cured.” Ummm #WheresThatStudy #cancer #amsm #bcsm #BreastCancer #bcmets
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Poor guy over at @amazon...called because they left all of the water out of my home delivery. I explained that I really need it because I'm sick. "Yeah," he said, "that sick think is going around." "No it's not," I said, "I have cancer." #AwkwardSilence #cancer #WhoHaveIBecome
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Suggesting I give thanks for #cancer this Thanksgiving (or any day, for that matter) is offensive to me, my family & likely to others as well. I'm grateful for many people & many things, but cancer is not one of them. #cancerisnotagift #cancersucks
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Guy who performed my echocardiogram told me about his friend with stage 0 breast #cancer. He said he can’t imagine what she must go through emotionally and then mumbled something about how I have it worse. Good times with folks who try to verbally process my disease with me. 🎉😂
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More home invasion dreams last night. Gee I wonder what that could be about. #bcmets #stageiv #InvadedByCancer
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Has anyone here ever dealt with a feeding tube? I am unable to keep food down. No one knows why. And I can’t stop losing weight. Would be grateful for anyone’s experience. #feedingtube #cancer
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"None of us will 'beat' anything. We will live with it, whatever that 'it' is for us, struggle through it, embrace it or not, until we die. No one cheats death. Nobody lives in this form forever." | @WhereDoesitLead #WednesdayWisdom #BCAM #StageIV everythingleadstothis.com/20…
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Horrifying experience for me with #stageiv #breastcancer. You are gamifying a disease that cripples on its way to being fatal. I don't take myself particularly seriously but when you flash words like cure or brave, you trivialize my very existence. Your pink party wont save lives
For the month of October, we have partnered with @SusanGKomen in the fight to save lives. #PlayPinkForTheCure to see how every pink ribbon tile counts: bit.ly/2zJRSwQ
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Hey guys...would love some of you to weigh in. Is there a go to snack when your stomach rejects everything else?
What’s your favorite snack? Crazy or not! Doing a segment for our new podcast @Dying4Sex and wanna hear what you love! Tell us. #DianeForSnacks #ComingSoon #WestwoodOne
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When someone says I’m going to “beat” this, what does that mean? None of us will “beat” anything. We’re all going to die. Some of us just have a clearer idea of what will take us out with more physical challenges along the way. To me, I beat #cancer every time I enjoy the moment.
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Prefacing this by saying I don't feel like a victim in any way, but living with #stageiv #cancer is like living with an abuser. I never know what version of my body I'll get on any given day or moment. Will I be "normal" me or the version that pukes all day? #GoodDayBadDayGame
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Standing in line at the museum and a woman is talking about her friend with metastatic cancer who is in remission. It’s taking everything I have not to explain NED to her. Hence this tweet. #bcsm #cancer
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The doctor who performed my endoscopy had the swagger of a man who rolled up in his porsche and left the car running for the 10 minutes it took to complete the procedure.
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