Note that I haven't been able to find a source for that quote and rivka has indicated in the comments to my post that it's likely misquoted. (That doesn't change my opinion on the issue at all, but it does mean that the person quoted above may have been agreeing with me rather than speaking for the plastic surgeons who market this practice.)
i've been over and read the LJ post you linked, but don't think i can face the trip to the Times to find the article in question. All I can think is that if I hadn't had my post-pregnancy tummy I'd have been in trouble two weeks ago. If I hadn't had that spare fat there would have been no tummy to tuck to rebuild my right breast.
So. I wonder what they'd make of that? A woman who faces breast cancer after having her motherly shape re-made into what is socially acceptable will have no spare parts. I'm not even sure I can articulate what I'm trying to say here, I just know how grateful I am to have my almost the same shape and no one had to resort to bags of silicone to do it for me.
Plastic surgeons are my new heroes, however, after what they have done for me.
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Date: 2007-10-24 11:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-10-25 07:47 am (UTC)So. I wonder what they'd make of that? A woman who faces breast cancer after having her motherly shape re-made into what is socially acceptable will have no spare parts. I'm not even sure I can articulate what I'm trying to say here, I just know how grateful I am to have my almost the same shape and no one had to resort to bags of silicone to do it for me.
Plastic surgeons are my new heroes, however, after what they have done for me.