In 2009, I was 43 years old and I thought that going into early menopause would be manageable.  Scary, but manageable. My husband supported my decision. We have often talked about how all of these decisions were made together for our family.  We thought that since ovarian cancer was harder to “catch early” that this…

My husband and I wanted to have at least one more child, but also wanted more spacing between our first and our second. I couldn’t imagine having either of these surgeries at that point, it just wasn’t feasible to pursue both another pregnancy and the surgeries. One other factor was the fact that my mother…

On November 3rd, I had a prophylactic bilateral mastectomy and in 2003 a prophylactic oopherectomy (removal of my ovaries) after learning I was positive for the BRCA gene. I made some major decisions about how to manage my health after learning of this news. I want to share how I came to the decision to…

When my life is normal and busy, a week usually flies by in a second.  And in that second the quantity and quality of what I accomplish is staggering, even to me.  One week ago today (Thursday, November 3), I was lying in my hospital bed after my prophylactic bilateral mastectomy thinking about the week…

Meet Lynne Tapper. In 2003, at the age of 36, she tested positive for the BRCA1 gene. Many of you have heard of BRCA1 and BRCA2 and some of you have even taken the test to determine if you are positive for this gene mutation. For those of you who don’t know, Lynne’s easy to…