Fast forwarding to present day is a woman who has conquered so much in such little time. The woman on the right is stronger mentally and stands ten toes down on certain hills. The woman on the right no longer cowers in corners. She is brave. She is grace. She is beautiful and most importantly, she is me.

I cannot believe just how much time has gone by and I'm excited to see where the next few chapters lead me.

Forever gr8ful for the support and love so many people have extended to me. Here's to another month without having the fear of cancer hanging over my head. Another month I get to be here. Happy 6 months post-op to the strongest, most bad ass woman I know: me💕

Brioche French Toast with a Berry Compote and Madagascar Vanilla Crème

I know the plating and appearance might not look the best -I’m trying to work with what I got- but this dish sure is a sweet breakfast treat to make. Great for special occasions (or any day since you deserve it!).

Brioche French Toast (egg, splash of heavy cream, vanilla, cinnamon, pinch of cardamom)

Berry Compote (blackberries, strawberries, coconut sugar, and juice from a lemon)

Here is the link for the petition: https://www.change.org/Protecting_genetic_information

I encourage you to sign and share it.

I have a strong family history of breast cancer so I decided when I was 35 to get genetic testing. I found out that I hold the BRCA2 mutation and was never informed by anyone that I would no longer be able to get life insurance, disability insurance, or long-term care insurance because of this pre-existing condition. Insurance carriers are allowed to discriminate and the federal GINA law does not provide protections against this. It has come to my attention that Florida is the first state pioneering these protections. I have included the link from facing our risk of cancer and powered (FORCE) which details in layman's terms the legislation.

https://www.facingourrisk.org/advocacy/advocacy-issues-detail.php?id=52#p7TP3c1_1

The Weird Age of “Previvors” Is Coming

Posted by Brian Gallagher

Siddhartha Mukherjee has an arresting thought experiment: What if, along with your familiar elementary-school report card, you had a genetic report card—one that read out your propensity for getting each letter grade in each subject? If you get an A in math, and your genetic report card says that your propensity for getting that grade is 7 percent, would that change your evaluation of your performance? What if your propensity was 97 percent?

Such perplexing, and perhaps uncomfortable, questions lie on the horizon, Mukherjee told Nautilus recently, in his Ingenious interview. He’s the author of The Gene: An Intimate History, published last year. He contends that genetics is a destabilizing idea in our culture: “What if I begin to understand you as pixels of information that change your leanings and propensities toward one future fate or another fate?” The more we understand the impact of genes on all sorts propensities—to have a mental illness, to have cancer, or to have certain behaviors and traits—the more it seems we must rethink what we mean by fate, chance, and responsibility. Destiny will no longer appear as something opaque and amorphous, like “a gray cloud,” he says. Instead, “we can begin to speak about it…in terms of very incisive information about particular genomes correlating or coexisting with particular environments.”