Well it is now week 10 on crutches and I am not coordinated for crutches. A friend of mine has a thing where you put your knee on and use your other leg to walk. It feels almost like a skateboard but it is so much easier to use than crutches.
Today is the day that I can remove the bandages and see how well they did with the tattoos. I am a little nervous I really hope that they look ok. I carefully took the bandages off and jumped in a shower to get rid of any extra ink.
Ok I have not really looked yet. In the shower I just tried to avoid looking. Now for the big moment; I have not had colored nipples in 4 years I was not sure what I was going to think or feel. When I looked for the first time I began to cry. They looked amazing if I do say so myself. For the first time in years I almost forgot about all the surgeries and cancer. I finally felt complete.
I am really surprised that this has made me so emotional. I did not realize how much I missed them. I won’t get to give the coroner a laugh now seeing as she did not have blue ink but I think they will be confused still. Think about it when they do my autopsy my shoulder is in the front as a breast; my stomach muscle is now the other breast. They are really going to have work at figuring me out.
I really do feel so much better about they “girls” and how they look. They may not be perfect but they do look pretty good. I can feel confident again about my “girls” that if someone just looked at them in a shirt they would not see anything different from before the Big C.