Dont follow me Im lost too
Im about a year out of active treatment and I seem to be in a slump. I experienced euphoria and gratefulness for being alive following treatment and some days since Ive felt genuinely happy but more r...
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Hi @Julez1958,
I agree keeping busy helps. Ive been sewing tops for my now assymetrical body.
I made a few bras out of desperation but heres a thing, when Ive mentioned it with non-cancer people they suggest i make it into a cottage craft business. On one occassion I said "but i dont want to, this is not how I saw my life turning out". Its not that I dont want to help others its just that bra making particularly is labour intensive, every woman is different and I dont want to turn something that has touched my life so deeply into a money making exercise - even though there is probably no money in it, its not like knocking up 20 of the same products with scrap fabric and going to a local market!
Its like there is an expectation that Ill turn adversity into some sort of successful enterprise. Im just trying to find some pleasure, have something to wear and turn my brain off. Why do I have to lift people up with conquering adversitym
Im becoming cynical too, a bra fitter came to an exercise class. I asked if she had a bra for uni boobers. No. After, I realised that their business is actually selling prosthetics and the bras that go with them. The prosthetics are where the money is, they have no interest in bras for flatties or assymetrical people. It doesnt fit their business model. Did they go in it to help us, maybe, is it a business, yes.
See, Im feeling a bit cross...
I agree keeping busy helps. Ive been sewing tops for my now assymetrical body.
I made a few bras out of desperation but heres a thing, when Ive mentioned it with non-cancer people they suggest i make it into a cottage craft business. On one occassion I said "but i dont want to, this is not how I saw my life turning out". Its not that I dont want to help others its just that bra making particularly is labour intensive, every woman is different and I dont want to turn something that has touched my life so deeply into a money making exercise - even though there is probably no money in it, its not like knocking up 20 of the same products with scrap fabric and going to a local market!
Its like there is an expectation that Ill turn adversity into some sort of successful enterprise. Im just trying to find some pleasure, have something to wear and turn my brain off. Why do I have to lift people up with conquering adversitym
Im becoming cynical too, a bra fitter came to an exercise class. I asked if she had a bra for uni boobers. No. After, I realised that their business is actually selling prosthetics and the bras that go with them. The prosthetics are where the money is, they have no interest in bras for flatties or assymetrical people. It doesnt fit their business model. Did they go in it to help us, maybe, is it a business, yes.
See, Im feeling a bit cross...