My One Minute Story

I was 29, about to leave my 20s behind. These years were some of the best and some of the worst. I graduated college, moved to NYC, found the love of my life and got married, but I also experienced a lot of job flops, relationship changes and anxiety like I had never felt before. The anxiety I experienced was only going to get worse when I was diagnosed with triple positive breast cancer and it was confirmed I was BRCA positive. Not only would chemotherapy, a double mastectomy, radiation, reconstruction and scars, an oophorectomy, hysterectomy and going into early menopause greatly affect me physcially, but all of these things would impact me mentally. Going through cancer treatment, wanting to have children and going through a long and grueling process of egg donors, surrogates, failed pregnancies and miscarriages not only increased my emotions, but it set my anxiety through the roof. All of this set a precedent for how I lived my life and the need to care for myself in ways I never thought.