What makes you have a reconstruction?
I had a mastectomy done and didn't choose implant or reconstruction as I had wanted to get into surgery quickly before Xmas. I didn't want to see a plastic surgeon as it was so close to Xmas and was f...
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Gee that's odd!! I honestly have never ever looked at reconstruction as being vain, I know for me it had nothing to do with it. Having 1 boob I wouldn't have been able to live with psychologically. It certainly isn't an easy way out either, I know I've lived with massive scars from surgeries and now well its even worse due to reconstruction. The scars don't bother me in the slightest, I don't even care about if they fade, I've never looked at the care of them strangely. I have friends who haven't reconstructed, its such a personal choice, but I certainly wouldn't take it as it meaning because I chose reconstruction that I wasn't toughing it out, that it is tougher to just have a mastectomy and leave it. I honestly have never ever thought about it like that at all ever. I would have just taken that ladies comment of 'not feeling the need to' as a personal choice for her.
LOL I do wear makeup not a lot and I do colour my hair, but I'm a real girly girl and I enjoy these things, its personal, doesn't make me vain LOL.
Certainly interesting Kath, I guess everyones perceptions of things. :smile: x
LOL I do wear makeup not a lot and I do colour my hair, but I'm a real girly girl and I enjoy these things, its personal, doesn't make me vain LOL.
Certainly interesting Kath, I guess everyones perceptions of things. :smile: x