Conorchloe you are a star! Xx
The full monty girls night tonight … Very powerful! How brave are we. How brave they. Thank you.
11:11 AM
Hi ladies I just wanted to thank you for your replies to my comment on this thread. I am now awaiting date for mastectomy with DIEP flap reconstruction as unfortunately due to there being three separate areas my surgeon said this would get me a good cosmetic result. He picked up on the fact of how important this is to me. I am extremely nervous. Can’t quite get my head around staying in hospital for best part of a week and having to rely on others to help me with personal stuff such as washing. I think Conorchloe referred to feeling laid bare and I think that is how I will feel. I am a private person regarding my body and definitely a put my make up on to answer the door kind of person so think I will feel very vulnerable. I keep trying to see beyond it and telling myself that life can and will be normal afterwards. Hoping I am stronger than I think! One thing I have discovered is how kind people are. I have always suffered from low self esteem so it has been wonderful to feel such love from my husband daughters family and friends. Also the support of the ladies on this forum (some of whom have contacted me personally). I keep re- reading your words of encouragement - they are so helping to get me through and can’t think you enough. Just talking to others who know how you feel is wonderful. I wish you all a lovely Easter. Those who are through treatment I hope you were loving life and living it to the full. Those like me who are still caught in this ‘blip’ in our lives here is to the future xxxxx
Conorchloe I watched the full Monty girls. Thought I might find it upsetting but it was very uplifting I agree xx