They said it better

Sometimes it helps to read a few first-hand accounts of other mutants.  I recommend the following reading:

October 2008 Chatelaine magazine article on BRCA
I uploaded this to my website as a PDF so you can download it and read it.  Click here.

October 2008 Canadian Living magazine article on BRCA
Again, I made a PDF and put it on my website.  Click here to download.

A short, but poignant article in the Globe and Mail Life section from April 2009.  Click to read it online.

Pretty Is What Changes - this is a good book, if you can get past all the author's name dropping and star f*@cking and her annoying Hollywood lifestyle.  She has the exact, and I mean EXACT same mutation that I do (so we're technically cousins or something).  She goes into detail of the whole BRCA process - getting tested, dealing with those results, not wanting to have a mastectomy, and then eventually doing it.  Ian calls this book "chick lit" but she does a pretty good job explaining some of the emotions involved.

Click on the book cover to see it on Amazon.com.