Changing at the gym

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  • mizbabygirl4
    mizbabygirl4 Member Posts: 163
    edited March 2009

    Beesie, I agree completely. I don't want to be defined by my cancer, or feel obligated to educate the world. I think each woman should do what she is comfortable doing.

    I'm a lap swimmer, and there are a lot of kids of all ages at my pool, and I think it actually could be harmful to some of them to see my scars without understanding what they are. I just take a cami and panties into the shower with me, and put them on before walking around. Nobody gives me a second look.

    Janet

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  • lisa-e
    lisa-e Member Posts: 819
    edited May 2009

    I am bumping this thread up because a funny thing happened to me in the locker room last night.   I walked into the locker room at the climbing gym.  The physcial therapist (also a climber) who has been treating my mastectomy scars was sitting on the bench in front of the lockers.  I said hi and reached accross her to put my stuff in a locker.  She looked totally puzzled.  I realized that it was more than seeing me out of context...I was wearing prosthetics and they were at her eye level.    She couldn't figure out why I had boobs all of the sudden.  Pretty funny!

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  • Estepp
    Estepp Member Posts: 6,416
    edited May 2009

    Boy, I feel different. The ONLY person who has seen me after bi-lat and TE is DH and the doctors... I feel I will look really good at exchange. My dh thinks I look ridiculously hot now.

    I will not undress in the gym around other women.. or in front of my family or girlfriends.. BECAUSE I look "good".

    If a woman is going through this.. I will show her ASAP!.. But to have a woman.. look at me.. who is not going through this.. and say.. WOW... you look "perfect"...I will not do it.

    I have a HUGE  "hard on" ( sorry) about this. I will help ANY gal who needs help.. I volunteer now at the cancer center here,, I will take my shirt off and show any cancer survivor what they can and will look like "if" they choose implants... I want to be there for our sisters in this journey.

    I suppose it just might come down to the circle you run in. In my field.. women are very vain and very into plastic surgery. That is fine.. I am not their judge. BUT.. I cannot tell you how many times, I have been told... " You got a FREE boob job..." and I deal.... ( I am very patient)

    This is why, I never show myself...

    Only to other sisters will I show my "boob job"..  we all paid dearly for...

    Honestly, I thought real hard about implants. I was real close to no reconstruction. We all make the right choice for us at the time...

    God Bless all our choices, as they are ours.

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  • marlegal
    marlegal Member Posts: 2,264
    edited May 2009

    i had lumpec..not mast... but can relate to a lot of what is being said.  i never felt like changing in a gym in front of other women. just not my thing for modesty reasons.  i was raised to consider my body private ... not prudish in any other way, but i still change at my gym behind the curtained area.  i'll swim naked in your pool if you invite me, but at a gym, no thanks ... don't wanna see yours, and you're not gonna see mine!!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited May 2009

    LOL....Marlegal

    My first encounter with the change room was just after xmas. We took a mini ski vacation and decided to check out the indoor/outdoor water park after skiing. I don't know where my head was at the time but I kind of found myself in a bit of shock when I realized I was in a big open dressing room with no where to hide! All of a sudden the reality hit me OMG.......how am I gonna do this?? As I looked around at all the 2 breasted women and girls, it hit home that WOW, I only have one and am the only one here that seems to be this way! I got the job done by draping my large towel over my chest but was really uncomfortable and hoped no one would notice!

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