I find this disturbing

[Bann (Premo)]

Originally Posted by MMDad

There's no good, bad, right, or wrong decision on this.

[drivingdaisy]

Some additional info

Preventive Mastectomy for Breast Cancer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/20...onal-procedure
I didn't know that Sharon Osbourne had done it.

[Wenchy (Premo)]

Originally Posted by drivingdaisy

Some additional info

Preventive Mastectomy for Breast Cancer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/20...onal-procedure
I didn't know that Sharon Osbourne had done it.

Yes.

She's been through a lot (I believe colon cancer)

Cancer is not something to fool around with.

On another note. I've had two colonoscopies in the past four years and have had 20 pre-cancerous polyps removed. The doctor recommended a bag and removing my colon.

I'm really at the point where I don't care. I've lived my life and it's been a good one.

I would rather be without breasts than having a poop bag.

Personal choices.

[vraiblonde]

What other people do is up to them, but I am content to let nature take its course and don't find potential illness "scary". In fact I don't think about it at all and will deal with it when/if it happens and not before.

Besides, FT's wife has my advanced directive and she won't let me go past my expiration date.

[mamatutu]

This thread is about breast cancer. Breasts are for feeding children, not for titilating men. If it will save a woman's life, cut them off; if she agrees. In time, breasts sag the same as faces and butts. That is all.

[stockgirl]

Originally Posted by mamatutu

This thread is about breast cancer. Breasts are for feeding children, not for titilating men. If it will save a woman's life, cut them off; if she agrees. In time, breasts sag the same as faces and butts. That is all.

:sniggle:

[jetmonkey]

Breasts are for feeding children, not for titilating men.

Are the lifeforms on your planet also carbon-based, like here on Earth?

[vraiblonde]

Originally Posted by stockgirl

:sniggle:

You are so immature













Okay, FINE, I laughed too. *hmpf*

[stockgirl]

Originally Posted by vraiblonde

You are so immature













Okay, FINE, I laughed too. *hmpf*

[Dakota (Premo)]

Originally Posted by vraiblonde

What other people do is up to them, but I am content to let nature take its course and don't find potential illness "scary". In fact I don't think about it at all and will deal with it when/if it happens and not before.

I can say the same thing and I lost my mother to breast cancer and when she died she left behind 2 younger siblings at home that I had to participate in raising & caring for. My father has had cancer 3 times to include prostate cancer. My grandmother, although much older than my mother when diagnosed, got breast cancer and I was always concerned that would come back like it did to my mother. Instead, she lived to be 87 and in the end her kidneys failed due to kidney cancer which is the silent killer cancer. We just don't know what tomorrow brings and basing a radical decision involving a great deal of down time for recovery and drains on what 'may' happen is barbaric to me. My poor mother had both of her breast removed and still ended up getting cancer everywhere else after being in remission for a few years. The cancer that ended up taking her life was a different type then what was found in her breast.

Sadly, I have also lost a few close friends to breast cancer. One of the girls lived across the street from me and when she died, she left 3 very young children behind. It is unknown if she carried the gene because they didn’t have that sort of testing at the time she passed but her sister did have the test and was found to not have the gene.

I'm here on this Earth until the powers that be feel my time is up, whenever that is... in the meantime, I will participate in early detection tests and hope for the best. I just hope I don't disappoint those who are certain I will die with a Darwin award tapped to my butt.