My Lynch Syndrome, Part 11
Allow me to close the series out with some empowering takeaways that put a Lynch Syndrome diagnosis in the proper perspective…
Allow me to close the series out with some empowering takeaways that put a Lynch Syndrome diagnosis in the proper perspective…
Because I don’t have children, I’ve never been burdened with deciding if, when, and how to tell them that I have the Lynch mutation…
I don’t have children–by choice–a decision, by the way, that has nothing to do with my Lynch Syndrome diagnosis.
I was already retired and fully vested in my health insurance program when I learned I had Lynch Syndrome.
Since 2012, I have been under surveillance for the long list of possible Lynch Syndrome and Muir-Torre Syndrome cancers…
At first, I was devastated by the Lynch Syndrome diagnosis…
“Mom, I have something to tell you…
Lynch Syndrome is a hereditary cancer syndrome that predisposes one to a long list of genitourinary and gastrointestinal system cancers…
It took just a few minutes and a few questions about my personal and family health histories…
It’s a hell of a thing to pull up to a building that reads “Something Something Something CANCER Center”…