Back in Jan of this year, I wrote about my experience with tuberous breasts and my post-surgery reaction to having them corrected. Since that time, I've been following the other comments that have been added, and have often found myself feeling a bit insulted by the women who choose to make those of us who want (or have already had) surgery feel guilty for doing so. It's been six months since my surgery, and I haven't ever, not once, had a single regret about going through with it. Ok, that's not true; my only regret has been that I didn't find out much earlier in my life that my oddly-shaped breasts were actually caused by a genetic condition that could be FIXED. I instead had to spend years feeling inadequate, unworthy, ugly, and alone.. years I'll never get back.
That said, I couldn't be happier that I've gotten a "second chance" at finding my own personal happiness. I was fortunate enough to find an understanding, talented, and experienced plastic surgeon, and the results were better than I could have ever hoped for. Some of the women on this board have said things that try to make implants sound like something disgusting, and that having them would be awful... to those women; I don't think of them as foreign objects stuck inside my chest. Rather, I feel as though they're a part of me, and it's an indescribable thing to wake up every day finally feeling whole when you've spent so many years not feeling that way. So although everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I wholly agree with Cathy- when deciding one's fate in the tuberous breast journey, it's an extremely personal decision, and no one should be made to feel guilty or wrong for whatever choice they make.
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Back in Jan of this year, I wrote about my experience with tuberous breasts and my post-surgery reaction to having them corrected. Since that time, I've been following the other comments that have been added, and have often found myself feeling a bit insulted by the women who choose to make those of us who want (or have already had) surgery feel guilty for doing so. It's been six months since my surgery, and I haven't ever, not once, had a single regret about going through with it. Ok, that's not true; my only regret has been that I didn't find out much earlier in my life that my oddly-shaped breasts were actually caused by a genetic condition that could be FIXED. I instead had to spend years feeling inadequate, unworthy, ugly, and alone.. years I'll never get back.
That said, I couldn't be happier that I've gotten a "second chance" at finding my own personal happiness. I was fortunate enough to find an understanding, talented, and experienced plastic surgeon, and the results were better than I could have ever hoped for. Some of the women on this board have said things that try to make implants sound like something disgusting, and that having them would be awful... to those women; I don't think of them as foreign objects stuck inside my chest. Rather, I feel as though they're a part of me, and it's an indescribable thing to wake up every day finally feeling whole when you've spent so many years not feeling that way. So although everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I wholly agree with Cathy- when deciding one's fate in the tuberous breast journey, it's an extremely personal decision, and no one should be made to feel guilty or wrong for whatever choice they make.
July 17, 2010 - 4:40pmThis Comment
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