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Was it difficult to write so honestly about your desire for a husband and a child?
It's all very exposing. I'd normally be the last person who'd ever talk about her anatomy. So writing those parts about my breasts was embarrassing. But I've always been very upfront about wanting a baby. I'm in a very difficult situation. I broke up with the guy who was my boyfriend in the book a year ago, and at that point I decided going on dates with someone new and saying, "Are you ready to have a baby in the next three months?" was untenable. So now I'm doing artificial insemination. I've tried several times. I quite honestly hoped I'd be pregnant by the time the book came out, but so far it hasn't worked.
You write about the possibility of doing preimplantation genetic diagnosis, which would mean creating embryos outside the womb and testing them for the BRCA gene. As you write, "Had this technology been available in 1969, I would have ended up in the trash can." Have you come to a decision?
So far I've decided no. I didn't feel I'd be at peace with selecting out embryos. If I do get pregnant and have a girl, I pray that by the time my daughter is in her 30s they'll have some kind of cure for breast cancer or much better alternatives than now. That's what I'm hoping for.
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Posted By: alexizmalelo @ 05/05/2008 5:19:04 AM
Comment: Cancer is the most dreaded diagnosis and nobody would wish to be told that she has cancer. I agree that it is a very personal decision and I think that what she did was very courageous and the right thing to do. This is so considering that if she did not, the thought of having cancer at any time and having to undergo mammogram tests a couple times in a year brings anxiety and she will be living in fear for the rest of her life.
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Posted By: alexizmalelo @ 05/05/2008 5:16:52 AM
Comment: Cancer is the most dreaded diagnosis and nobody would wish to be told that she has cancer. I agree that it is a very personal decision and I think that what she did was very courageous and the right thing to do. This is so considering that if she did not, the thought of having cancer at any time and having to undergo mammogram tests a couple times in a year brings anxiety and she will be living in fear for the rest of her life.
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Posted By: alexizmalelo @ 05/05/2008 5:15:49 AM
Comment: Cancer is the most dreaded diagnosis and nobody would wish to be told that she has cancer. I agree that it is a very personal decision and I think that what she did was very courageous and the right thing to do. This is so considering that if she did not, the thought of having cancer at any time and having to undergo mammogram tests a couple times in a year brings anxiety and she will be living in fear for the rest of her life.
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medical researcher
www.medicalhealthguide.com