I was diagnosed in 2022 at age 31 de novo with Metastatic Breast Cancer. What I previously thought was a slipped disc that had been plaguing me for months was really a tumor on my spine that needed surgery – IMMEDIATELY. In a split second, my life as I knew it crumbled, and I went from being a driven marketing manager working in the music industry in Manhattan (my literal dream) to someone whose entire existence was defined by the dreaded “C” word. With bone metastases and a breast tumor lighting up my PET scans, these past years have been a struggle running the gamut from radiation, to hormone therapy and hot flashes, losing jobs, friends, and apartments, while gaining chemo brain, chronic fatigue, and depression. While I don’t enjoy every day, and heavily rely on dark humor as a coping strategy, I am so incredibly grateful to still be here, trying to live life and even more so to ENJOY it.
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Help with a trip to Amsterdam with her best friend.