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A Comic’s Guide to Mastectomies

Dangerous Boobies: Breaking Up With My Time Bomb Breasts by Caitlin Brodnick

January 12, 2018 by LanierHgts 1 Comment

This is the book that I wish I had written. In fact, many of my friends and family did tell me that I should write it, but I was too slow, and Caitlin Brodnick did an amazing job of it instead. Ms. Brodnick learned at age 21 that she was BRCA positive. At age 28 she opted for prophylactic bilateral mastectomies, as a result of her family history. Ms. Brodnick spent some years engaging in self-destructive behavior in a effort to ignore her diagnosis.  She did eventually come to terms with it, and decided to document her journey on film in […]

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1/12/2018 | Post by LanierHgts
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| Tags: breast cancer, Caitlin Brodnick, Dangerous Boobies | Category: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Health | 1 Comment


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