‘Instead of a scar, I had a piece of art’: women on their post-mastectomy tattoos

Seven women tell Gem Fletcher why getting inked after breast cancer made them feel whole again

I found a hardening in my breast in 2005, and although my GP wasn’t concerned, he sent me to get it checked out. It was a total shock when I found out I had stage 2 breast cancer. I went for the mastectomy, because I thought it gave me a better chance; and I had a reconstruction because I thought it would be less traumatic to wake up with two breasts.

Continue reading...

from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2I6myuz
via
0 Comments