Meg Gaffney is a nurse, and when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, she decided to skip chemotherapy and radiation, and go right to a bilateral mastectomy.
But when her plastic surgeon recommended a skin graft surgery to build up new nipples, she decided to incorporate art into her own personal healing process.
For Meg, that meant getting nipples tattooed onto her body instead of the graft surgery, and — after months of searching for an artist willing to take on her challenge — she’s about to get the work done!
Check this out out:

The website is featuring 8 parts of a documentary …read more

Did you see her on Good Morning America this morning? Robin Roberts interviewed her, which is poignant as well. But wow, Christina applegate. She’s amazingly strong, amazingly together (so unlike Kelly Bundy, the character she played that I’m most familiar with), amazingly inspirational. I love her.
If you missed my post on her diagnosis, here it is.
She made a seriously brave decision in my opinion, for a young celebrity. After her recent breast cancer diagnosis she learned she was BRCA1 positive; not a big surprise since her mother is a survivor as well. And though she had good margins after two …read more

I was never more dependent on others, since my childhood days, than I was after my TRAM flap reconstruction, immediately following my double mastectomy.
I mean seriously, I was cut hip-to-hip, hardly able to walk upright let alone lift anything for weeks, all the while nursing a seriously sore chest that had been to battle and back. Some of you know first hand what I mean, don’t you? That particular surgery defines debilitation — it’s unreal.
When I first returned from the hospital, I learned some serious lessons about humility. I was officially bedridden, with more drains coming out of my body …read more