At least I can still smile in the rain....

I had the bilateral mastectomy in 2004... & I choose not to use the prostheses' anymore. I just got tired of the whole ordeal so I just go around flat.
Recently at a party a woman came up to me & just plainly asked "Where are your titties". I was stunned. I have 3 pink bracelets on my left wrist. I thought people would have taken the time to notice that & then put 2 & 2 together before saying something like that to me. SO instead of going off on her, I simply stated they are in a jar in a lab somewhere being studied. Then I think it hit her that I was a cancer survivor.
This past weekend another survivor ( that I suspect was drunk) came up to me & told me that I wimped out!

"You shoulda had the reconstruction done! Silicone all the way baby!"

Hmmm.... if only she had asked I would have been able to tell her how I did have the reconstruction, & got a staph infection a the site of the port that didn't get correctly diagnosed till 5 months later when my skin started tearing.... yeah, I wimped out. Does being a survivor give you some increased sense of bravado that you can say & do anything you want? If it does, someone please let me know when I can start being so insensitive to people.

OH YEAH- I'm going through menopause a lot sooner than I thought I would, so that time may be coming soon! Hold on to your hats!