@mygoodgirls when I read your post it was like someone had been inside my head, over the past two weeks I have heard a dozen of news clips or read the articles on how 25% of breast cancers could have been prevented. How they are caused by diet, sedentary lifestyle, alcohol consumption and excess weight.
Every one of these angers me because they forget to talk about the 75% that aren’t from modifiable lifestyle choices.
I think these things are important prevention tools, but they are not helpful when talking to women who already have breast cancer. It just feels like blaming the patient.
I have genetic hits coming in from all sides and I still felt guilty when I was first diagnosed. I was also a rail thin equestrian who ate right and didn’t drink.
20 years ago if you didn’t have BRCA genetics they said it wasn’t genetic, my how things change huh? Where will this story be in 20 more years?
Can you think of all the ways you acted in kindness to others, or the ways you picked yourself and dusted yourself off and got back to life? Do you feel like you can forgive what you didn’t know and not take the blame?