Tattooing Breast Cancer Survivors
 

Good for you, Vinny. :thumb2:

Dude did a pretty good job.

Loved the woman, too. Great attitude.

Plus, y'know, boobs!

Wow.

That's talent, despite what he feels is missing from his artistic life. It seems capricious of the gods to whack his sister with cancer to keep him doing this work. But that's the way people are, looking for patterns, meaning.

V, you're glossing over the bigger picture here.


BOOBS, man!!

no, it's you who're missing the points!

heh. Not that there's anything wrong with that [/sexpositive]

Very nice. I'm glad someone out there is doing this.

You guys ... reconstructed boobs ... and you're excited? Really? (Not being nasty, just wondering.)

Someone said, But it doesn't hide the scars. I replied painting the wall doesn't hide the cracks, but makes you feel better. If they wanted to hide scars, I think they'd be talking to a plastic surgeon, not a tattoo artist.

No, I think they aren't looking to hide they had trouble, but trying to make things sorta complete. So when the walk past the mirror it looks all there, even though it's different.

Same reason we rattle can paint, the rust spots on an old heap. :blush:

I can't speak to that. Had a unilateral mast, skin/nipple sparing, that was tricky and landed me in a hyperbaric chamber for three weeks after the surgeon took a little too much of the subcutaneous tissue, trying to minimize my chances of local recurrence. Trouble is, the blood (i.e. oxygen) supply to the skin in the area is in the subcutaneous tissue. If you take too much, the skin dies.

Nevertheless ... wanting a sense of being complete is huge. What would you do, faced with the knowledge you'd soon be losing what makes you a man/woman, and then have to carry on in a lonely world? Most of us want to feel complete at some point.

Cutting off the blood supply to the skin, sounds like salting the soil... Ewww.

Gravdigr, Big V called you a whore. You gonna take that lying down?

heh heh heh

orthodoc - don't sweat the boobs. that's not what makes you beautiful

Either that, or, bent over.

Besides, he ain't lying, so...

:D


Also, I've been called worse than that by better than him.:p:

Oh, yeah. ( . v . ) <---:yesnod:

Any size, any color, reconstructed, deflated, lopsided, hanging below the skirt hem... all.
Well, dead maybe not so much.