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at pain. Have you rung Dr Lovely? I will be joining smee if not, and I bet we can rustle up some more of the gang.
Summer Exhibition was a lovely evening, Lots of amazing art but I liked Grayson Perry's tapestries best and was quite fun seeing them amidst some of the types they most take the piss out of (us included with our Guardian readers kitchen table www.victoria-miro.com/exhibitions/_429/). Some minor clebs and Emma Watson (Hermione) being marched around being told what to buy 
Quite a lot of champagne may have been drunk, there may be some headaches this morning....
Dr Leah should have been fired for that dress and clash and match orange lipstick, not to mention the glistening smooth forehead 
No way I am letting Dr Leah near me.
Byebye You are welcome over here, we are all very happy to share our experiences to help others. I had a mastectomy without reconstruction. I had a nasty lump and couldn't face the added trauma of dealing with reconstruction, the idea being I would do it later. It been twelve years now and I just haven't ever felt it was worth going through the trauma of surgery and the side effects. I would qualify that by saying I am a wimp and that my boobs have never been that important to me, my self esteem resides elsewhere (and I really should get around to finding it). There are times I wish I had had it done but mostly to do with asymmetry and the depression where my lymph nodes were removed, which you obviously wouldn't have to worry about.
The mastectomy alone is a very simple operation, they do not remove any muscle so there's little pain. You get the prosthesis on the NHS but this website gives you an idea what they are like and the bras and swimwear you can get www.amoena.co.uk/ We are not really a beach holiday family but I do happily sunbathe round the pool in a swimming costume, just have to watch not bending over but there is tape you can buy to prevent gaping tops if that bothers you.
Girls were 6 and 9 and we told them what was going on in terms they could understand and cope with, that I had a nasty lump in my breast and that I was having it removed, a little more detail for the nine year old who is sharp and was already a Scientist. I never hid anything from them, indeed they enjoyed playing with my prosthesis, and they are totally at ease with my body shape, it is, as they say, just me. They have inherited my flat chest genes and are not girly girls so they not that bothered about breasts either. They six year old was still in the Princess phase and had more of an issue with having a bald mum, more obvious and therefore potentially embarrassing in front of her friends, but that was temporary and balanced out by being able to play with the wig 
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KK Hope you survive your bike ride. Goondog is suffering in this heat as well, not the weather to have a thick fur coat......
As I may be suffering a little today I am even more thinking of those feeling grotty but not in a self inflicted way....