According to "Angelina Jolie has double mastectomy due to cancer gene", she was afraid that the family history of breast cancer and ovarian cancer might knocks on her, therefore she decided to decrease the risk from the bad gene. And "she feel empowered that she made a strong choice that in no way diminishes her femininity".She start the process began in February and was completed by the end of April, now she is recovery and try to tell all the women if they had a family history, they should seek the experts for help and to make their own informed choices, women has an option to live more happily.
I was shocked when I saw the news, the actress Angelina Jolie who is a kind, positive, shrewd beautiful woman. Once my friend saw her took her son to Disneyland, and no bodyguard around them, and she smile to everyone who said hello to her and her son. It seems she don't ha the superstar look even that time she was already well-known. She cares about the refugees and against to those women were had been sexual violence. She adopted three different races of orphans and taught them to learn and respect their own culture and language. This shows how intelligence she is and I think she doing this way and show to the public is let every women know that "Hey, I double mastectomy, it is not a big deal." We can see lots of women do the breast augmentation surgery is let themselves more attractive to others and shows how femininity they are. But somehow I think the inner side is more important than the look.
It said "having close family members - first-degree relatives like a sister, mother, aunt or uncle - with breast cancer raises a woman's own risk of the disease. Certain genes such as BRCA1 and BRCA2 are strongly linked with breast cancer and can be detected with genetic tests." Actually I have a family history of breast cancer, somehow I am neurotic to check it every year. I still remember my aunt she fought cancer for nearly a decade and died at the age of 49. I was watched her whole process of chemotherapy and saw how suffering she was. She was done very well on her first time discovered the breast cancer, the bad gene may cause but I think her recurrence for second time is the pressure. At that time, her husband was unemployment, and she had to worried about the spending. She borrow some money from the bank tried to to exert herself but the coast of living seems overwhelmed her and it triggered the bad gene comeback. We know the treatment cause lots of side effects, and it is the second time discovered the cancer, therefore the doctor increased the dose and let her tried the new medicine. Frankly, the results was bad, and watch her life wither and fall each day is painful.
Joseph Conrad was said “Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.” As a woman, I need to cater some social rules and that I am disagree it, but not strong enough to be a Feminist yet. I think no matter man or woman is a difficult task to cope with others nowadays. Emma Parlons, a 38-year-old mother from London said "How women facing a strong likelihood of developing breast cancer have only two real options - to have both of their breasts removed (a double mastectomy) or hope that it will never actually happen." This really a hard decision for me. It needs time to adjust the new body but life will be happily after or just spend it beautifully in the rest of the limit time? What's your decision?
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I agree with you that the inner side is more significant than the outside look. There is a saying that "handsome is as handsome does". I think that if ones that are good looking, but they think or act negative, they should not be considered as good people.
ReplyDeleteWhen I saw that story in the BBC News, I was quiet stunned. Like many, I'm glad that Angelina has spoken out to tell others what she has done, not just because she might save lives, but also because, as she describes it, she might also empower the lives of more women by showing that they can make and carry through tough decisions.
ReplyDeleteANother thing that came to my mind was how wonderful is modern technology that first makes possible accurate predictions of odds and then provides a solution. I must acknowledge that the solution isn't great, but as Angelina sensibly decide, it is much better than dying from cancer.
There is lots more progress to be made, but could anyone think that life in the past was better than life today for the vast majority of people everywhere? Just 20 years ago, Angelina's decision would have been impossible - we did not have the genetic knowledge for it.
Since I'm watching and recommending films, Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby (2004) might prove a useful example for Peace and Ploy as they work on their definitions of healing. Films, like novels, can provide powerful tools to help us better understand our own, often vague, ideas about words that we use every day, but don't always think about carefully and critically.
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Eastwood, C. (director). (2004). Million Dollar Baby. United States: Warner Bros Pictures.
In this moving film, the voluntary euthanasia (the killing by request) is not performed by a doctor, nurse or other medical professional, but by a caring friend of the person who wants to die.
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Need healing be done be medical personnel to quality as healing?