A first-person account from a short YouTube video in which a speaker describes receiving a terminal cancer prognosis, being told to prepare for death, and choosing a full mastectomy without reconstruction. The speaker reports resisting medical pushback, ultimately feeling happier, more sexual, healthier, and more like themselves after removing their breasts.
Um, and, you know, I was continuing to get sick. And so at this point, they're like, you're not going to make it. You probably should go home and start getting your. Your affairs in order and plan your funerals or plan your funeral. And so I did. And if it got to the point that I just was like, this is not how I'm. How I want to go out. And so I remember just looking at the oncologist and saying, do I. Do I have to reconstruct? Do I have to have breasts? Do I have to have boobs? Or can you just cut everything off? And that is where I started to get quite a bit of pushback. And I pushed back until I got my way. I'm way happier now than I ever was with breasts. I feel more sexual and more healthy and just more like myself.
