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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charliss who wrote (20718)	4/22/1998 4:30:00 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Charliss, I think all women live in fear of breast cancer. I can understand how you might read my post as insensitive, but if you will remember I was responding to Carol's post about having breasts removed as a defensive strategy if one is in a high risk category for the especially virulent breast cancer that is genetically determined. I was always terrified about how I would look if I lost my breasts, and yet the women at the gym who have lost theirs are not only very athletically active, but healthy as well. One of the women I knew like that was eighty-nine years old, a long-time survivor. I think the fear of what you would look like, and how you would cope, with this kind of loss is something that many women really wonder about. If anything, I see my post as encouraging and hopeful. I would certainly never deliberately say anything insensitive about such a serious subject, so I am sorry that you took it like that. I do think that I would rather have two breasts, or none at all, but that is a personal opinion, and I was talking about having just one in a personal sense, and how I would feel about it from my own perspective.