9鼓舞人心的影响力提供MBC的支持
他们可能面临威胁生命的疾病,但是that hasn’t stopped these women from living their lives with joy.
Some of the您即将遇到的社交媒体明星已经着名（而且，哇，你是曾经的，秃头芭蕾舞女演员！），而其他人则享受他们的第一个脸红或Insta名声。他们都有共同点是一种疾病，它的强大挑战使他们迁入了在线聚光灯：metastatic breast cancer (MBC). And while they’re not afraid to share a bad day (or an even worse treatment side effect) with their followers, they refuse to let cancer keep them down for long.
MBC, also known as stage 4 breast cancer, is terminal—meaning the cancer that started in your breast has now spread to other places in your body and has no cure. But new treatments mean women are living longer and continuing to do what they love, which is hopeful news, even though they’ll always need treatment and scans, and face uncertain futures. The result: MBC patients (and perhaps you, if you’re reading this) learn to live in the space between fear and hope, says Allison Forti, Ph.D., licensed clinical mental health counselor and associate director of the Online Counseling Programs at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC, who has worked with cancer patients for 15 years.
感到不那么孤独，转向能够理解强迫欲望的人“明亮的悲伤”的人很好 - 生活在悲伤和痛苦和痛苦和痛苦和痛苦之中生活。您可以在线或朋友和家人中找到它们。关键是与那些有背部的人围绕着自己，无论如何，谁能倾听并用作发声板。但首先，首先通过与这些有影响力的MBC战士进行社交，当他们抬起灵魂并打击良好的斗争时，他们会讲述与他们的语言相同的语言：
Bella Jones,@breastbellaofficial
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Breast Bella is a wife, mom, and metavivor—she’s fighting stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. She’s also “living flat,” which means she opted out of reconstructive surgery after her double mastectomy, proudly rocking her chest in many of the TikTok videos she posts (along with her oversized glasses, assorted hats, and a string of pearls). Is she an exhibitionist, as some who’ve stumbled on her videos claim? Hell to the no, she insists. In her words, “I’m raising awareness for women facing similar issues, and you wouldn’t believe how many reach out to me and say thank you.” Want some inspo? Watch Breast Bella shimmy to “Dance Monkey.”
最喜欢的名言：“只是因为我嘲笑我的疤痕，骄傲，知道我很漂亮并不意味着我需要注意。”
Nalie Agustin，@nalieagustin
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Diagnosed with breast cancer eight years ago when she was 24, this Montreal native started blogging about her illness. After a year of treatment (which included chemo, radiation, and a mastectomy), she was in remission and began writing books, giving Ted talks, and producing “The Nalie Show,” a talk show on YouTube. In 2017, she was re-diagnosed with stage 4 cancer that had spread to her lungs. But don’t think she just rolled over. “Incurable to me just means cure from within,” she writes, so she focuses on thriving and inspiring others to lead a “heart-driven life,” despite brain cancer, and chemo and radiation treatments.
Favorite quote：“有时，你不需要整个计划来前进。它只是需要一个小步骤来摆脱恐惧。从那里你可以采取另一个，另一个之后......突然，你终于可以再次呼吸了。哪里有呼吸，有希望。“
Suzi Tozer，@suzitozer
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Six years ago Suzi Tozer, of St. Louis, MO, was diagnosed with MBC and was given a year or two at most to live. “But here I am,” she says, and, as she puts it, still “kicking cancer’s ass,” even though the cancer has spread to her lungs now and she’s losing some teeth, her hair, and even her eyelashes. How does she do it? Well, you just have to scroll through her TikTok account to see how she starts every one of her videos with a huge smile. That doesn’t mean life with MBC doesn’t get her down every once in a while. But she has a plan to get over her sadness, and she’s happy to share her secret. (Keep reading to discover what it is…)
Favorite quote: “Everybody’s sad, you’d be weird if you weren’t. When they told me the cancer had moved to my lungs, I was sad and scared. I gave myself two days. I cried the ugly cry, I ate ice cream, I did everything I wanted to do. But when those two days were up, I moved on.”
天使洛杉矶，@Angellovelii
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Three short weeks after Bronx, NY, native Angel Lovelii’s breast cancer diagnosis in July 2019, she’d had a double mastectomy and found out that the cancer had spread to her lymph nodes. Since then, the cancer has now spread to her spine, tailbone, and ribs, and she’s confessed to being in horrible pain. Still, she keeps her battle with MBC real, whether she’s discussing her fears or her faith, her 5-year-old daughter or her hand-crafted earring business. But even though she says doesn’t know where she keeps getting her strength and purpose from, she has her good days—and she’s vowed to “make the rest of my life the best of my life.”
Favorite quote: “At times I feel this is it and other days I get up, ready to take on the biggest fight of my life (Advanced Breast Cancer). Two years ago, I would have never thought this could happen to me, never thought this would be part of my story, but it is.”
Renee Kaiman,@mscmommylife
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Diagnosed at 33, Renee Kaiman has been living with MBC for five years. You can also find this mom from Toronto, Canada, onInstagram.，或读她博客to get her take on being a mom of two during quarantine with stage 4 breast cancer. But it’s on TikTok where her humor and her humanity really shine, whether she’s dancing away her anxieties just moments before she’s scanned (“Scanxiety is REAL!”) or telling others whatnot到say to a cancer patient, no matter their good intentions.
Favorite quote：“人们一直都说，”我很强大，他们永远不会做我正在做的事情。“但事实是我没有选择。你会做任何你可以活着的事情。这正是我正在做的事情。“
Ann Silberman,@butdoctorihatepink
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Ann Silberman现在已经有10年的转移性乳腺癌，她一直在两年的时间比这更长时间。Now 63 (she’s lived long past her initial prognosis), this silver-haired grandmother from Sacramento, CA, posts pictures of her kids, her grandbaby, her dog, even her manicured hands and diamond paintings—all photographical reminders to savor the blessings, large and small, of life. In between, you get her thoughts on living with cancer, which she describes as a wait, not a fight, one that involves many days, hours, minutes, and seconds of infusions, doctor and pharmacy visits, scans, and insurance calls. Even when she’s being 100% real about being in bed for 16 hours each day, she never gives up her joy or sense of humor.
Favorite quote: “Nobody has a crystal ball, and anger, frustration, despair only take away the good days that are coming. Of course, feel your feels—then let them go. Accept what’s happened, do your treatment and enjoy the beautiful life in front of you.”
Tanya Bhatia,@instatani
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Ten years ago, Tanya Bhatia, now 33, found a lump on her breast and had a gut feeling that she had cancer. It was. So she moved from Bahrain (where she grew up) to Berlin, pausing her life just to deal with her treatment. By her fourth diagnosis, she had been “upgraded” (as she puts it) to stage 4 triple negative breast cancer. This time, dealing with MBC hasn’t stopped her from going about her life—working as an interior designer, hanging out with her partner and friends, and exploring New York City (where she now lives). And while her cancer has progressed, she maintains her vow to take the trauma and fear out of the big C. In her own words, she’s “a fighter.”
Favorite quote：“每个化疗都不同;you lose hair, your hair comes back, and everyone says it’s ‘just hair,’ but until and unless you are in a position where you have to make that call and be like: ‘...and I’m back to where I was a year ago’ (or 10 years ago!), don’t judge, this is life with cancer.”
Maggie Kudirka,@baldballerina
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Kudirka是一家23岁的芭蕾舞女演员，纽约市joffrey公司被诊断出患有乳腺癌，它蔓延到她的骨骼和淋巴结。那是六年前。Chemo药物赫赛汀（Trastuzumab）在Bay -she患有100多个输注中使她的癌症保持着。在大流行之前，她给了全国各地的年轻舞者大师芭蕾舞演员，偶尔表演;她仍然通过跳舞来保持她的耐力和力量。她是转移性乳腺癌的强烈倡导者，提高了研究的认识和资金，并谈到癌症药物的高成本。然而，对于她的医疗团队，以及她的医疗团队，以及她沿途所遇到的许多人，她感谢 - 就活跃起来。这是一个引人注目的舞蹈继续。
Favorite quote：“癌症，或任何严重的健康危机，让人意识到真正重要的东西：如何宝贵的生活，家庭和朋友;那个小烦恼不值得令人遗憾;我们的差异是让人有趣的是什么;每一个生命都很重要。“
Renee Sendelbach,@Reneesendelbach.
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This mom from Austin, TX, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008, when she was 30 and her son was 13 months old. After a year and a half of treatment, she made plans to have another baby, until doctors discovered that her cancer had spread to her bones and lungs and she had to put those second-baby dreams on the shelf. Since then, she’s had brain surgery to remove tumors where the cancer spread and has been diagnosed with leukemia (she got a bone marrow transplant for that). She describes herself as “annoyingly optimistic” but from where we’re sitting, she’s truly inspiring. You’ll find practical tips here—on how to get through scan anxiety, for instance, and mindset hacks—as well as beautiful post-it notes that are down-to-earth and never preachy, like the one about what comprises a good day: if she feels OK for 51% of it.
Favorite quote：“这种癌症道路不是一条轻松的旅行道路，充满了满满的坑洼可以摇晃和拨动你的车，但这是值得的......所有的硬垃圾都值得。”
- Tanya Bhatia:Mt. Sinai Road to Resilience podcast. (2020). “Cancer is Me.”podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1399730603?i=1000495507671
