How My Husband’s Nickname For My Fake Boobs Helps Me Heal by Angela Banker...survivor

[Omaha Steve]

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News flash! I have fake boobs! Okay, this really is not all that news worthy, but it is something that often pops up in my daily conversations – usually with my husband and daughter, and a few really close friends. Each one of those people knows what I had to overcome that year I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

I often make fun of my cancer. Well, more so my “girls” that came from it. It is the best way I know to keep everything on a positive note. The jokes started right away. I started coming up with names to introduce the new twins in my life. The names ran from B1 and B2 to Lucy and Ethel. However, the name I use the most with other cancer survivors is “Foobies.”



When I was starting my cancer journey, I would often browse through other blogs I could find to gain a more personalized feel for what to expect. I called this my “Research.” One day, my research led me to a blog. This blogger fondly referred to her breast implants after reconstruction surgery as FOOBIES. She stated these were 100% fake boobies: FOOBIES. Other women, many of my friends included, have what she considered to be enhanced breasts. Yes, those breasts are just as pretty as her Foobies, but there is a distinct difference between the two.

FULL story at link.

[Omaha Steve]

1. Kick

[jwirr]

2. LOL what a great way to address breast cancer. Thank OS.

[hunter]

3. Positive approach.

I recall similar stories, but with tattoos...

After mastectomy, women usually have two choices: Learn to love your flat chest or surgically reconstruct the breast (or breasts) that were taken away.
But some breast cancer survivors are choosing a third option, adorning their scarred chests with intricate and colorful tattoos, transforming what can often be a landscape of pain into something beautiful, powerful and unique.

Perhaps the most well-known example of the post-mastectomy tattoo belongs to Inga Duncan Thornell, a 50-year-old Seattle life coach who chose to have a prophylactic double mastectomy in 1993, shortly after her stepmother died from the disease and her mother was diagnosed with it.

http://www.today.com/health/pink-ink-tattoos-transform-mastectomy-scars-beauty-8C11373795