Why Breast Cancer Survivors Who Don’t Want Reconstruction Face Pushback—or Worse
, in which fat or muscle is transplanted from the abdomen, thighs, buttocks, or back to recreate breast mounds—the process takes multiple surgeries to complete, and recovery can be slow and painful.
But Colleen’s decision was not honored. When she took off the bandages, she found that, as happened to Kimberly Bowles, her surgeon had left unsightly pockets of loose skin where her breasts had been, “just in case,” he said—“even though I had repeatedly told him I did not want and would never have reconstruction,” Colleen says.At her follow-up, Colleen confronted him. “I said, ‘You were supposed to make me flat,’ ” she explains. “His comment was ‘You are flat when you are lying down.
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