Wrapping up the week
It’s been a buuuuuusy week! Damn! I can’t believe it’s over already, because it seemed to go on forever, and then snap! it was done. Work’s in high gear, and it’s kind of taking over things presently.
I’m halfway through one of the knitting projects, with another one still on the needles, and I’m insane enough to contemplate a third! Yes, a third, like: cast it on now, and have three piles of yarniness on the coffee table. I’m NUTS.
In other news, as the weeks wind on towards the one year anniversary of the de-boobing operation, I’m seeing more changes in the surgical area. My chest continues to hollow out, and I can see ribs that only people who’ve had mastectomies can see, since everyone else’s are covered by tissue & fat. I wonder, sometimes, what people think, but honestly…I’m trying to forge a path here for some of us to just be fabulous, without boobs (if we want to), so I realize that knowing what other people think might just be discouraging. I still kick around several ideas about tattoos over the area where my breasts were, and I know I’ve got to give the lymphedema a long time to *not* flare up before that’s a reasonable option. Stupid lymphedema!!
It’s late…I have to crash out, or lose too much of the morning to sleep. Goodnight, world!
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“I wonder, sometimes, what people think, but honestly…I’m trying to forge a path here for some of us to just be fabulous, without boobs (if we want to), so I realize that knowing what other people think might just be discouraging.”
Yup, me too. And it inspires me to know end that others like you, Jacqueline, Jeanne and Mary are out there too.
I was going to get a tattoo over my portacath after I had it out and the scar had fully healed. It’s unlikely to come out ever now but if I ever get a long enough break from treatment I’d like to get a tattoo of a raven - just somewhere on my left side and away from the lymphedema.
Finally, the sweater looks gorgeous, as does that skirt you are wearing. Did you make that, too?
Laurie: you know I just love you, right? Because I do!
I think when we’re ready for tattoos, we could make an event of it, if you’re interested? It annoys me that if I were to ask my surgeon or physical therapist about getting a tattoo with lymphedema implications, they’d just say,”Don’t get tattoos.” I hate that whole:’You don’t have to have normal stuff, you should just accept your limitations’ crap. You know, no one mentioned the impact of diet on lymphedema to me, except to say that salt would exacerbate it? It’s a trifling ghost of its former self, since I have (nearly 100%) stopped eating meat and processed foods.
Thanks for the sweater/skirt compliment!! Yes, I made the skirt too, and I’m gonna show how I did it, when I can get some time for fun. Right now, I’ve been much too busy at work to do much of anything.