i love wearing pink if i have to support breast cancer survivors esp women fighting to get back their confidence or whatever they were once in their past but watched and saw a new techingue on TV


Skin-Sparing Mastectomy

What is Skin Sparing Mastectomy (SSM)?

A skin-sparing mastectomy, also known as breast-conserving surgery, is a way to treat cancer, and save the breast skin. In so doing it causes much less scarring than a traditional mastectomy. The skin-sparing procedure removes cancerous breast tissue through a small incision usually around the areola area of the nipple. The surgeon leaves most of the breast skin, creating a natural skin envelope, or pocket, that is filled with a breast implant or with the patient’s own tissue from another part of her body. The skin-sparing technique significantly improves the cosmetic outcome and gives the best option for reconstruction.

I'd post a picture of all this procedure but it may be censored by someone

Your opinion, Sorp, could not float a boat in the middle of the Pacific.

I may be a "freak" to you but I have the balls to call you on your BS. And your regurgetated cud still needs to be chawed on fer awhile.

Stating your comments as YOUR OPINION just don't cover the totality of your ignorant statements where WOMEN and breast cancer are concerned. So what if SOME women have told something about anything ...... you still base "your opinion" on their opinion. Right???????

Thinking for myself is something I do quite often ..... have you ever attempted it?

Fishing - we all deal with it differently. I chose reconstruction and have never regretted it. I do sometimes regret not having augmentation but not very often!

....... take another pill with brandy it might help to loosen your fingers as much as it has your tongue


..... Wanna see my emails? ..... I gots 'em!!!!! (for both genders)

watched the couple as a pair, not sure who was the happiest..remember her in her late fifties and her boobs were just as perky as wood duck decoys and my grandma used to say.got something back from medical procedure one time in her life..

and thanks about the nipple..bet that hurt..

I was 37 and I was devastated but even then, I said no to anything artificially implanted. And 2 months later came the scare of all the leaks women were having from them.. big news on tv and in papers.

Someone was guiding me NOT to do it .. and Im grateful now.. too much chance of infection as many women found out, too late.

very true duchessa but, I still dont want anything foreign in my body.. it still can lead to infections.. again, as a woman its a personal choice.

Fortunately, breast cancer reconstruction is not an issue politicians get involved with

its none of their business what I do with my body. but I see where youre going with this and again, its none of their business.

i dated a lady that had one of her breast removed because of cancer. i treated her has if she had both of them and treated her as a human being not some kind of freak show. we dated for six months or better then she went her own way and i hadnt heard from her for awhile then ran into her and found out she also had brain cancer and went in for that. seen her one other time since then but i dont know if she is still with us or not. i think about her a lot and i miss her. where ever you my dear i still think about you.

I don't doubt the bazaars and craft shows are generating a lot more money than posting in DH...but those bazaars and fairs are not reaching as many ladies...and people in general. Both means are necessary. Thank you.

To be honest with you all, I have avoided this thread.
Yes, I get my examines and check regularly.
Yet, I do find threads of this nature painful. Brings back
far too many bad memories.
My husband died from a rare throat cancer due to smoking and
drinking in his younger years. The way I understood it was that
it takes hundreds of thousands of these cells to even show up.
By then it is too late. I took care of him personally till the
very end. It was not an easy task.....at times it was a real
horrible nightmare. Sometimes I can still hear his screams...
Now I simply stay away from topics such as this.
However, I do not wish this disease on anyone. Not even my worst enemy.