@nannybb thank you for being brave enough to be truthful in telling your family’s history. We should all be able to do that for several reasons, but IMHO when we share our experiences we educate others allowing them to make decisions based on others’ experiences. That to me is more valuable than knowing the medical particulars. I want to know what symptoms someone else has experienced, how they made decisions, what they learned from those decisions, and how they handled the outcome.
My SIL’s 2 grandmothers, mother and her mother’s 2 sisters all had breast cancer. At 32 they advised SIL to prophylatically have bilateral mastectomies. She did not. She is now 80, a month older than me and cancer free. She on the other hand had C1,C2,C3 fused about 30 years ago, a very scary procedure.
We all have some medical issue, many more serious than others. Who am I to think I should be spared??