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Speaker 1: Caitlin, do a blog audio journals like we're writing in

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Speaker 1: our diaries. Go ahead, dear blog.

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Speaker 2: So a while ago on the show, I, in order

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Speaker 2: to hold myself accountable, talked about how my doctor was really,

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Speaker 2: really on my case about starting to think about mammograms

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Speaker 2: and starting to maybe think about getting the gene test

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Speaker 2: for what's called the brockogene, which is related to breast cancer,

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Speaker 2: and a ton of the thirteen had been on my

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Speaker 2: case and asking about it. So I am happy to

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Speaker 2: report it may have taken a couple of years, but

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Speaker 2: I finally worked up the courage to take the kit

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Speaker 2: from Mi Gino, and she started this whole program to

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Speaker 2: where she has the kids in office, which I think

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Speaker 2: that was an issue before they were hard to get

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Speaker 2: or they were too expensive, and insurance is now covering

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Speaker 2: a lot of it or some of the cost if

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Speaker 2: you have a risk that they prove a My nana

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Speaker 2: had breast cancer at forty and her sister had it

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Speaker 2: as well, and so technically I should have done this

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Speaker 2: at thirty, but you know, neither here there. So I

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Speaker 2: finally took the test and it was a very easy experience.

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Speaker 2: I was nervous because my doctor's office changed their messaging

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Speaker 2: system and they kept messaging me like you need to

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Speaker 2: make an appointment, you need to make an appointment, and

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Speaker 2: I'd be like, oh my god, the results are in.

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Speaker 2: But it was just for my annual and I was like, oh,

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Speaker 2: you give me a heart attack every time. So I

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Speaker 2: did get the results back and they were mostly good.

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Speaker 2: I do not carry the gnarly brockegen, the bad one.

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Speaker 2: I carry a variant of it and a variant of

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Speaker 2: another gene, but they're not an issue right now, so

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Speaker 2: like I can take a deep sigh of relief. And

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Speaker 2: what's really cool about doing this is now they have

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Speaker 2: my info and my data and my genetics and so

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Speaker 2: if they're going to keep researching these things that I

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Speaker 2: carry and everyone who does the test, and they will

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Speaker 2: contact you if they find that it is starting to

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Speaker 2: mutate or become an issue. So it's like a community

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Speaker 2: that you join for life, and it's so awesome and

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Speaker 2: I know obviously it's very scary, but I think in

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Speaker 2: these cases, knowledge is power and finding things early is power,

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Speaker 2: and yeah, if you have any questions, it was it

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Speaker 2: was an awesome experience. It was just like doing a

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Speaker 2: DNA test. So swab mail it in and mine was

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Speaker 2: fully covered by insurance, which I was scared of. I

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Speaker 2: know Angeline and Joelee was the first one to like

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Speaker 2: do this, but at that time it was so expensive.

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Speaker 1: Well, I know people like you and in our family too,

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Speaker 1: my grandmother and my mom have had issues. So I

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Speaker 1: know that it can be daunting to go do it

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Speaker 1: because it's almost like am I walking into something like

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Speaker 1: but by ignoring it or not doing anything you said this,

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Speaker 1: you know it could be so much worse as in

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Speaker 1: the future if you're just naive to it, right, like

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Speaker 1: if you just don't, you just choose to ignore it,

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Speaker 1: like it's not happening. You know, maybe if you catch

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Speaker 1: it early then you know the outlook, the prognosis will

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Speaker 1: be so much better then if you wait. And I

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Speaker 1: know that's easy for me to say. It's a scary thing.

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Speaker 1: Colon cancer in my family too, So they're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to go stick a thing up my booty, which and

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Speaker 1: not in the way that anybody would want so anyway,

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Speaker 1: but I'm dreading it too because not because I don't

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Speaker 1: I don't want to do that, but also because I

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Speaker 1: don't want them to find anything. And it's like why

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Speaker 1: I was none the wiser. I felt fine, but they

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Speaker 1: you know who knows that they find it early enough

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Speaker 1: in your case or in this case, then they can

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Speaker 1: treat it and you know you'll live a long life.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and if you have kids, it's important. If you

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Speaker 2: want to have kids, it certainly affects that. And by

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Speaker 2: the way, men can get tested for the Brockagen So

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Speaker 2: like if my dad had been tested and he was

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Speaker 2: a carrier, that would be information to know. So I

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Speaker 2: sort of did it, you know, for the family as well.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean it just DM me ka e

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Speaker 2: l a n for real on Instagram. If you have

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Speaker 2: any questions, No one's.

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Speaker 1: Going to remember that.

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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 1: I have to do it for you. It's k ae

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Speaker 1: l a N fuck read.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, go go get the info because it's helpful

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Speaker 2: and it's not as scary as you think. Maybe.

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Speaker 1: Well good for you, that's good message. Yes, thank you

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Speaker 1: Calein three years La tail, I do the same things

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Speaker 1: in there, so say stuff on the air and then

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Speaker 1: I'm like I'm committed, right, and then I have to

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Speaker 1: do it. The entertainer reports sext