Perspective

What It's Like to be a BRCA Mutant & My Big, Scary Preemptive Strike

What It's Like to be a BRCA Mutant & My Big, Scary Preemptive Strike

I don’t know what being a BRCA mutant is for everyone, but I can tell you what it's been like for me and that the one really positive Super Power I have as a BRCA Mutant is Prevention of a Monumental threat to me and to my family. I will fight dirty wiith a preemptive strike on cancer! I’m going to be a Previvor!

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Perspective on Positions - At Work & In Life

Perspective on Positions - At Work & In Life

The guy next to me hung up and started commenting about how awful sales people are... . How they don’t know anything, but they make all the money . . . etc. etc. etc.

Being an account executive (aka sales person), I will admit that my immediate thought was "HEY! You have no idea what it’s like. . . . on my end. . . from my side!" 

As I was walking through the terminal, I started thinking from another point of view . . .  there’s a reason he feels this way – a way he’s been treated that makes him say “this is why I drink” while shaking his head - he was made to feel "less".  

That's a terrible feeling.  Let's try not to make other people feel it!

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