DAY 23: Breast Cancer Journal

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October 22, 2009

Anonymous The Meadville Tribune Thu Oct 22, 2009, 09:47 PM EDT

Prosthesis or not?

I am healed and recovered and back at super speed.

What I have never addressed nor felt the need for was a prosthesis. Why, I don’t know, it is just a divot, that is what I have — a divot.

My standard joke is I have a C and an A and if I rolled the C up maybe it would equal it out.

I have bought bras with padding and no underwire (many doctors tell you not to wear an underwire after you have had breast surgery).

I just never could wear an underwire — my chest cavity just doesn’t conform to that.

I remember wearing an underwire strapless bra for my wedding and half way through the day, I had to head to the restroom as it was all but to my waist, all of it.

Who invented those things anyhow?

Hence, my theory — I am just not built right!

No one ever really talked to me about the possibilities and I never really figured I was a falsie kind of gal. With my luck, the prosthetic would be on my shoulder at some point or falling out at the bottom and I just wasn’t comfortable about having to deal with an added issue in the morning routine.

I have since learned there are some amazing products out there and there are ways to make sure it is not going to end up where it is not needed.

I may even try some of these products out some day as the years bring more of my issues to the forefront, literally but for now I am content.

I will say for those that have the interest, the products are out there and a very viable option and I will never say never.

I just will say not now.

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