After being diagnosed with lupus, I began pondering my own feelings about death. [...] But until that old grey horse comes riding...I will keep puttin my lipstick on everyday like nothing is going on.
My mother has lupus. Her attitude is much like yours, except for the lipstick. (She's not much of a lipstick person. Matter of fact, she wears real live Army boots, to brace weak ankles.)
Well, there's also the fact that she tends to ignore any instructions from the doctor that don't jive with her plans for the day. She understands that that practice will probably make her die sooner, but her perspective on the situation is that her time here is limited either way, and she'd much rather enjoy it than be miserable.
"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain--that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist." --Lysander Spooner, 1867
