Twisting Fate Quotes

“My breast cancer diagnosis was in March, and now it was November. Reflecting back, why did I not get tested when I was first diagnosed? As an expert-patient, why did I not even think about getting tested for a BRCA mutation? The very short answer is that I did not really meet the criteria for testing and the test would have cost several thousand dollars were my insurance to decline to pay for it. The long answer is more complicated. No one recommended it.”
― Pamela N. Munster, Twisting Fate: My Journey with BRCA - from Breast Cancer Doctor to Patient and Back: My Journey with BRCA―from Breast Cancer Doctor to Patient and Back

“Taking all this in was clearly overwhelming to both daughter and father. And toward the end of the conversation, it became rather difficult to explain the principles of chemotherapy in the level of detail I would have wanted had we only more time with patients.”
― Pamela N. Munster, Twisting Fate: My Journey with BRCA - from Breast Cancer Doctor to Patient and Back: My Journey with BRCA―from Breast Cancer Doctor to Patient and Back

“My head started spinning, and I again wished I brought someone along to help me write all of this down. I knew all the facts, all the options, and yet keeping them straight for myself was proving impossible. I clutched my phone harder, desperately wanting to make an SOS call to anyone . . .”
― Pamela N. Munster, Twisting Fate: My Journey with BRCA - from Breast Cancer Doctor to Patient and Back: My Journey with BRCA―from Breast Cancer Doctor to Patient and Back

“My head started spinning, and I again wished I brought someone along to help me write all of this down.”
― Pamela N. Munster, Twisting Fate: My Journey with BRCA - from Breast Cancer Doctor to Patient and Back: My Journey with BRCA―from Breast Cancer Doctor to Patient and Back