00:00People see me like this and they say,
00:02Oh, I can't believe you're ill. You look so well.
00:08This is with the wig, the makeup,
00:11even though my eyes water because of it.
00:16This is because I'm more dressed up.
00:19This is who I like to present
00:24because more often than not,
00:29the response of pity, avoidance,
00:35people that are bringing their own shit to my diagnosis,
00:40it's just an added emotional burden on me.
00:43So it's easier just to present like this.
00:48Today is a really bad day.
00:51It shouldn't be. I had my results.
00:54It's, um, and the cancer's been stopped in my bones,
01:01but I don't want to tell my husband
01:07because I put him through enough.
01:09I don't want to tell my husband,
01:10but I don't want to tell my husband,
01:10but I don't want to tell my husband,
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