When you hear you have breast cancer there are a lot of big decisions you need to make. One of them being the choice to do a mastectomy or not. I knew that was the wisest options, but losing your breasts and your nipples is one of the hardest things of this journey.
I know it was the correct choice to have a double mastectomy and to remove my nipples and that it was definitely better than to have to face the cancer again in a few years’ if I didn’t make this choice. However when you have to face yourself in the mirror every day it is a whole different ball game.
I received this image a short while after my mastectomy and although I was encouraged it was also very difficult to get this message to my brain.
“You are warrior with battle wounds that make you more unique and beautiful than before”.
I have realised that it is going to take daily reprogramming of my mind to accept the scars and the new me.