Why is Mommy Having Surgery? She Looks OK to Me: For families with BRCA risk and undergoing prophylactic surgery and implant reconstruction

This sensitive true story of preventive mastectomy and implant breast reconstruction, as written by Heather Barnard in Why is Mommy Having Surgery, will hopefully encourage families to explore their feelings, understand the process, and open the communication to what can be a difficult subject. This book helps children understand what having BRCA means, why mommy is choosing to have preventive surgery and what that process will entail. With a forward written by Dr. Chrysopoulo, breast reconstruction microsurgeon, we hope this book will become a valuable resource for the many women with BRCA looking into preventive measures.

Author: Hannah Richardson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 09/10/2017
Pages: 34
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.09d
ISBN13: 9781514713952
ISBN10: 1514713950
BISAC Categories:
- Health & Fitness | Diseases | Cancer

About the Author
Heather is a wife and a mother to three beautiful children. She went through genetic testing in 2005, which revealed she was positive for the BRCA1 gene. In June of 2015, she chose to have a prophylactic bilateral mastectomy with implant reconstruction. She went through the entire journey with her children and husband by her side. It was because of the journey that this book was conceived; as she realized her children were 100% involved the entire way, learning so much about their potential future realities.

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