My BCRA Gene Test Debate
4 min readAug 5, 2019
Her name was Blanka.
She left Czechoslovakia in 1911 when she was 16 with her husband Joseph who was 12 years older than her. They settled in the northern United States.
Over the next several years, Blanka bore six children, two girls and four boys. Her husband was away much of the day, working in a factory for 12–14 hours at a time. Blanka was alone much of the time, raising her family and…