The Joys of Pregnancy

My thoughts and feelings on my first pregnancy and other loosely related topics.

Friday, February 02, 2007

G-d Bless the American Cancer Society

This mastectomy has been very difficult on me. I had a very strong body image and then I gained a bunch of weigh with the pregnancy and then I lost my left breast and I am very insecure. Sure I know that later I can have reconstructive surgery, but that is two years away. When you first get out of the hospital you can't really wear a prosthesis because your still healing and wearing a bra and a prothesis is painful and is not good for the healing process. They give you or you buy this fluff thing to wear, which is pointless. It has no weight, it's like stuffed animal stuffing, so it just kinda floats around. Because your real breast has weight it has a natural sag (what a terrible word) and the fluff has no weight so they are never in the same place at the same time and you, or at least I, was constantly adjusting the fluff (which looks really strange to people who don't know you've had a mastectomy) and I have been very self concious. But now I've healed enough to get my prothesis and a real bra to wear. There's just one problem...being pregnant my one breast is huge compared to what it was before pregnancy. So what do I do? The American Cancer Society will give you 2 bras and a prosthesis. Do I get a size that matches my current and then buy another one when it shrinks or do i just suck it up and get the size I was prior to being prego and not spend the extra money? I decided to go with the latter. When I put on my new prosthesis I was so excited, it looked normal and didn't shift around, I wasn't constantly playing moving it back into position. Then I noticed how much smaller it was compared to my other breast and got all weird all over again. When I called the American Cancer Society to try to exchange it the woman was so who helped me was so kind and understanding of my situation that she just gave me the other one and 2 more bras. G-d bless the American Cancer Society! After pricing the prosthesis I never would have been able to afford to buy one let alone two.

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