Tattooing Breast Cancer Survivors

orthodoc · 06-12-2014, 09:59 PM

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.

06-12-2014, 09:59 PM	#11
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	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. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

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