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    I had double prophylactic mastectomies with no reconstruction several years ago. The DIEP* failed, so I came out flat and ambivalent. In the end I have stayed flat.

    One of the hardest things about no reconstruction was figuring out how my daughter would handle it. After all, it's a bit odd for your mother to come home with her chest like a board! But what I discovered was that my daughter, then age seven, wanted to be involved. She actually helped check the drains, which is the gross part of the recovery. Taking the signal from her, I told her that the doctors had taken away all the bad possibility of cancer. I also took her with me to see the surgeon and said to him: "tell her 'your mother has a good chance of being just fine now.'" And: "Tell her 'your mother is still pretty.'" Amazingly, he complied. She was happy to hear it all from a doctor!

    She never did and still doesn't like me to wear prostheses. "No falsies" is her rule. The boyish look seems to please my daughter, but what has mattered more to her was being honest about the whole thing. And she attends a school where plenty of the moms or grandmas are Botox types.

    Annette BC

    * Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator, a type of reconstruction.
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