Thursday, June 13 – a
day I will never forget. Today was my daughter's last day of nursery
school. I dropped her off, drove to a nearby coffee shop to get some
writing done, and then rejoined the class for parent sing-a-long and snack.
After the party my daughter and I ran through the rain to our car and I
then noticed that my abandoned cell phone was going crazy. Voicemails,
texts --- all saying the same thing: We won the Supreme Court BRCA Patent case
unanimously.
I immediately started
crying.
"Mommy, what's
wrong?"
"Nothing is wrong,
honey. Mommy is very happy."
"Why?"
"I won a fight
today that I've been fighting for a long time. This is going to help
Mommy's patients."
And then I thought of
all of my patients over the past 18 years and their children, and
grandchildren.
Generations that span
into the future --- all of whom will be helped by this ruling.
I cried harder as we
drove home through the rain, thinking of 15 years of fighting for a cause that
had all come to a beautiful end.
Ellen T. Matloff, MS
Research Scientist,
Department of Genetics
Director, Cancer Genetic
Counseling
Yale Cancer Center
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