The Peg Leg Store

I started calling it the peg leg store to help alleviate my boss' distress at having me mention prosthetic breasts in the office. Have I mentioned I work for a church? Fair warning, this post is all about the peg legs.

This week my friend, Kathryn, agreed to go with me to pick out the t-shirts I'll need after my mastectomy. They have little pouches that hold the drains I'll have after surgery and they are supposed to be very very soft and easy to put on and take off while recovering.

The ladies who run the shop are so very nice. They set me up in a very sweet dressing room to try on the shirts and then took care of all of the insurance (insurance covers 2 of the t-shirts, since they cost more than $50 each, I'm very grateful!). Once the shirts were fitted, they showed me the prosthetics that they have for younger women. These are lighter and perkier than their standard prosthetics, with lotion on the skin-side to help even out any rib or scar lumps. They were also glad to show me the bras so I could see that they were not all staid, old designs. Now, I have to admit they were nice, not the type of bra I'm used to wearing, but I suppose none of this is what I'm used to anyway.

I still think Victoria's Secret should come out with a line of prosthetic bras since it seems that there are quite a few women my age and younger with breast cancer. We all won't want to immediately go with implants, so I think the market is there.

At any rate, I won't need to worry about the prosthetics for 8 weeks or so. They won't fit me for these until I'm completely healed. Until then, t-shirts and what they call "softies", which I plan to skip for now. They look more like little doll pillows than breasts and are stuffed with regular pillow stuffing. actually, they are closer to the "stuffing the bra with socks" method! They are so far off the mark that I would prefer flat to sock stuffing.