HOW MY LIFE WENT T!TS UP: My Journey Through Breast Cancer with BRCA1 - Softcover

Skinner, Laura

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798280314153

Publisher: Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

At just 24, I was building the business of my dreams—driven, ambitious, and full of plans for the future. But everything changed with one diagnosis: breast cancer, tied to the BRCA1 gene mutation. What followed was a journey I never anticipated—one filled with deeply personal, life-changing decisions, unexpected twists during a global pandemic, and the raw emotional and physical challenges of treatment and recovery.

From hospital corridors to months of isolation, this memoir reveals the unfiltered highs and lows of young adulthood disrupted by illness. It’s a story of resilience in the face of fear, of redefining beauty, of choosing strength when vulnerability feels overwhelming. Along the way, I discovered the healing power of community, knowledge, humor, and self-advocacy.
This is more than a cancer story. It’s a story of survival, growth, and hope—a powerful reminder to young people to listen to their bodies, take charge of their health, and never underestimate their ability to rise through adversity. Because when life gives you lemons… you book the surgery, rock the bald look, laugh through the pain, and always, always ask for a double.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798280314153
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148