Young and BRCA positive: Now what?

If I have an aggressive tumor, I will also find it before it has taken over my body, but because of its aggressiveness, it will ultimately kill me. I know a test may find it sooner and may increase my chances of living with cancer longer. However, if I don’t have kids, I would rather die than go through anything close to what my mother went through.

My breasts are high risk so before I have children I am willing to do whatever it takes to keep them as healthy as possible. To me, this includes walking away from doctors telling me I need annual MRIs and mammograms. I have had three MRIs and all three have come back abnormal.

I told the doctors as nicely as humanly possible, to find someone else’s high risk breasts to prick because my future children deserved to be born with a mother that has done everything possible to keep her breasts healthy.

From what I know, breasts are incredibly sensitive, and we need to keep our breast environment as safe and quiet as possible. Annual needles going into them doesn’t do that. I am fully aware that I may wake up tomorrow and feel a tumor that is “big and dangerous.” But, I am hopeful that won’t happen and confident with my own thought process and decisions.