Comments for Wearing my BRCA genes http://youngbrca1.wordpress.com The skinny on being a young breast cancer survivor and carrier of the BRCA1 gene. Wed, 15 May 2013 05:02:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on On Angelina Jolie’s Double Mastectomy by Krys http://youngbrca1.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/on-angelina-jolies-double-mastectomy/#comment-843 Wed, 15 May 2013 05:02:04 +0000 http://youngbrca1.wordpress.com/?p=699#comment-843 I felt the same way – that she had the best experience possible, which most women don’t. I certainly didn’t, and while I also had it better than a lot of people, it’s always a little difficult to hear others talk about how great their experience was. A mastectomy is never going to be the perfect solution and for most women, reconstruction is never the same as the body with which they were born.

I hope that now that one of the biggest celebrities in the world is cutting off body parts, someone, somewhere, will seriously start figuring out a better way.

]]> Comment on Weekly Happy: Bursts of Sunlight by Helen http://youngbrca1.wordpress.com/2013/04/13/weekly-happy-bursts-of-sunlight/#comment-841 Sat, 11 May 2013 22:09:52 +0000 http://youngbrca1.wordpress.com/?p=697#comment-841 Hi, i’m your friend from ihadcancer.com i’m so glad to see you are well now! Congratulations and the rules is enjoy every second of our life, keep smiling girl! Kisses

]]> Comment on Weekly Happy: Bursts of Sunlight by nancyspoint http://youngbrca1.wordpress.com/2013/04/13/weekly-happy-bursts-of-sunlight/#comment-839 Mon, 06 May 2013 21:41:32 +0000 http://youngbrca1.wordpress.com/?p=697#comment-839 Terrific piece of advice. Cancer or no cancer, enjoying the small moments is what it’s all about. Thanks for writing.

]]> Comment on Weekly Happy: Bursts of Sunlight by Marlene Klayman http://youngbrca1.wordpress.com/2013/04/13/weekly-happy-bursts-of-sunlight/#comment-836 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:09:46 +0000 http://youngbrca1.wordpress.com/?p=697#comment-836 Fabulous! May those two years multiply many, many times over!
Marlene

]]> Comment on Weekly Happy: Bursts of Sunlight by Krys http://youngbrca1.wordpress.com/2013/04/13/weekly-happy-bursts-of-sunlight/#comment-833 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:39:22 +0000 http://youngbrca1.wordpress.com/?p=697#comment-833 I think two years cancer free is pretty darn awesome! :)

]]> Comment on To have kids or not to have kids by alyca http://youngbrca1.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/to-have-kids-or-not-to-have-kids/#comment-827 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 23:19:00 +0000 http://youngbrca1.wordpress.com/?p=608#comment-827 I am BRCA1 positive and just had bilateral mastectomies for TNBC earlier this week, and we are freezing embryos in a couple weeks, before I start chemo in late April. We are absolutely going to do genetic screening and only implant embryos thare are BRCA1 negative. My two sisters both have daughters, and are a bit distraught as they wait for their BRCA testing to come back, because they may have already passed this gene on. I have the opportunity to spare my future kids this concern. I see nothing ethically wrong with this at all.

]]> Comment on Come Blog About Death by drjeff11 http://youngbrca1.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/come-blog-about-death/#comment-826 Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:40:02 +0000 http://youngbrca1.wordpress.com/?p=675#comment-826 Wow, this is the kind of stuff you wrote in high school and it always left me yearning for more. Who is Karl? Why so angry? Why does he stay in a city like DC? Who did he kill? What meds is on, and didn’t take that day? Does he live with his mom or on the streets?
This sounds like the midpoint of Karl’s life, not the first paragraph. Please fill in blanks ASAP!

]]> Comment on Estoy Aquí by caraelyse http://youngbrca1.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/estoy-aqui/#comment-824 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:18:15 +0000 http://youngbrca1.wordpress.com/?p=671#comment-824 Thank you so much, Ilene!

]]> Comment on Estoy Aquí by ilene http://youngbrca1.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/estoy-aqui/#comment-823 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:17:19 +0000 http://youngbrca1.wordpress.com/?p=671#comment-823 It’s hard to imagine that you would feel disappointed in yourself, even for a moment. You are amazing! creative! beautiful! intelligent! kind! talented! So much to be proud of….

]]> Comment on Estoy Aquí by drjeff11 http://youngbrca1.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/estoy-aqui/#comment-822 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:40:45 +0000 http://youngbrca1.wordpress.com/?p=671#comment-822 You are so on the right ” track”!
Hope this lessens the “performance anxiety” you seemed to have developed, since your diagnosis and treatment.
I think Ecuador was your own , private Walden pond .

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