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October is breast cancer awareness month.  It used to be that you'd see pink everywhere.  Pink is good, I guess, but what it represented doesn't represent me.  It represents an organization that doesn't use very much of what is donated towards research.  I'll wear pink anyway since we all know what the pink does represent, breast cancer awareness.  First, let's get this out of the way, GET YOUR MAMMOGRAMS!!

According to the American Cancer Society, (2016 estimates), there were 246,660 new cases of breast cancer.  And amongst those, about 6% were diagnosed immediately with stage IV metastatic breast cancer.  Metastatic meaning the cancer cells had metastasized (spread) to other parts of the body.  I was among the 6%.  

I won't go into the prognosis.  As we all know, it's not great.  I won't put the statistics here because my children read my blog.  We don't discuss numbers.  We live with it.  

This is the face of someone living with metastatic breast cancer.  I don't look sick but the battle is going on hard inside.