Dear Dana, I thank you very much for your message. I know how hard it is to come out open publicly about such an intimate part of our feminine life. It is always a struggle, even though we take it for normal in our routinely day and tend to bypass it. Instead, it’s accompanying us for the rest of our lives. It’s uncomfortable, even if we transform it accepting it with our creativity, love and resilience, adding it to ourselves.
Therefore, I profoundly appreciate your response so frank and brave. I have too another long scar on my back, due to a severe infection following my left mastectomy. I went through gangrene and exposure of my prothesis with two holes in my low part of the skin. So, I went through a new surgery of reconstruction two months later with the latissimus dorsi muscle (I think I can translate it like this in English), which passing through my side under the armpit, was stitched from within in place of the lost lower part of what was left of my left breast skin. So, I woke up with a great patchwork that was directly connected to my back and felt odd every time I was moving. The funny thing was that 4 tiny moles that I was used to see on my back when I watched myself from the mirror, all of the sudden were on my front left “breast”! But now, I am used to it…
I am so enthusiastic about you signing for my newsletter and I invite you to add yourself as a writer, if you feel like, to my very new publication, to add your personal insights and knowledge. I created Pink Planet with the aim of helping and supporting everyone involved in some way with this breast cancer ordeal through sharing. But more perspectives add value and broad this beneficial action.
Therefore, thanking you again for your brave step towards me, I invite you to follow Pink Planet if you haven’t done it so far, to keep reading information related to this subject. There, you can read as well this post on how to request to be a writer and proceed with your submissions.
We need to open up to the world, we need to shed the sense of shame some may feel and expand the awareness because, in my case, which is among millions, this sneaky vile cancer brought me a disability for life. I had to accept it and live with it in the best possible and positive way and, yes, I know that I must be happy that I didn’t die of it, but it’s not a short story of an October month. Unfortunately it’s for ever.
Medium has so many topics and writers, but a dedicated space for this subject was still missing. This was the reason for me to decide to create PP, a publication that offers the possibility to relate to and share helpful and constructive information.
I hope I didn’t tired you with this long answer, but I felt to fully explain myself to you for the care, very dear to me, that you showed me.
Do not feel obliged to join me on PP, but please, think about it.
Thank you very much, Dana.
