"I was anxious about intimacy, about letting a man see or touch my over-50 body. But my breasts made me consider never dating again."
I had a double mastectomy when I was 40 years old in 1997. I was married and had two children under the age of 11.
Cutting off my breasts when I didn’t have cancer seemed radical, but it wasn’t radical to me. I have the BRCA1 gene mutation. That mean... [3666 chars]