Tag Archives: Family planning

My sixteen chances

Just when I had started to mentally prepare for my chemo treatments, my surgeon raised a good question: “Do you want to harvest your eggs prior to chemo?” (A surprised look on my face) “If you want to have children … Continue reading

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Genetic results are in!

My hospital called to inform me that my genetic results are in! Originally, I was supposed to wait another 3 weeks. Now that they are available for me, I decided to move my appointment to this coming Tuesday instead of … Continue reading

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Decisions after cancer

I thought that going through the treatments for my cancer was going to be the hardest part of this journey (for lack of a better word). I would lose my hair, throw up a few times, be constipated (or have … Continue reading

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Seeking closure

After being diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 32, and with the number of cancer diagnoses in my family, you bet I was going to try to find out why I got it. Although we don’t really know … Continue reading

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