Episode 2 - Krysten’s Story

Making the Breast of It

Krysten Gentile, Andy Sealy, John Gentile

Unfiltered, Mastectomy, Thriver, Cancer, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Nipples, Metastatic, Radiation, Lifestyle, Breast Cancer, Breast Life, Menopause, Comedy, Diagnosis, Chemo, Terminal

2.5 • 523 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Send a text Next, there’s Krysten. Listen to how she was originally diagnosed in 2017, while pregnant with her third son, how she navigated that in itself, and how she is currently adapting to her new diagnosis - Stage IV (Metastatic) Breast Cancer, which is terminal. But it’s not all sad - trust us. Andy is there to lend a certain “inappropriateness” to the conversation, for the lack of a better word. You may laugh until you pee, and then cry a bit - you may even learn something. NO T...

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0:00.0	You need to tell your parents tonight. This cannot wait. You need to tell them immediately.
0:03.5	And I was still like, I can't. Oh my God. It was literally one of the hardest things I had to do.
0:08.0	So finally, they came to my house at maybe 11.30 Sunday night.
0:13.5	My mom was half asleep, fell asleep in the car on the ride home. It's like a two-hour car drive from our house.
0:19.1	And they thought that, you know,
0:22.8	like, they probably literally thought we were like going to get divorced or something. I don't
0:26.5	know. What do they need us for at 1130 on a Sunday night before we adore us the next day? Bradley wants
0:31.6	to see you. Bradley's in bed. Exactly. Bradley's in bed at this point. I'm still like, no, come over.
0:37.4	Right. So they sat down on my sofa and they're like, what? Yeah. I'm still like, no, come over. Right.
0:38.0	So they sat down on my sofa and they're like, what?
0:41.7	I have breast cancer.
0:44.8	Hi, I'm Kristen Gentile.
0:46.5	Hey, I'm Andy Seeley.
0:48.2	We are breasties.
0:49.5	Fuck, yeah, we are.
0:51.8	And we are here.
0:53.0	Making the breast of it.
1:00.4	So the year was 2017 and I was living my best life.
1:07.4	I am married to a wonderful guy named John, who is also our producer.
1:12.9	He's right here, so he is wonderful L. Vouch.
1:15.9	And we had two little boys at the time, both toddlers.
1:21.3	And we were living our best life.
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