Rads clothing advice needed for a uniboober

I think there are quite a few uniboobers among the stage III women here so I'm hoping you can help me out.  I have heard that it is best to go without a bra during rads. My uniboob is between and A and B cup, so for that side it isn't a problem to go braless. But I really can't imagine going out of the house lopsided, without a breast form. Did you all do that? Any tips on camoflaging it? It seems silly for me to take free from work just because I don't want to show up lopsided but I am really having a problem knowing what to do!

Uh oh, what WAS I thinking????? A couple of days ago I went to the rads floor at the cancer center to get a CT so they can plan my radiation. They made 3 big crosses on my stomach and sides so that when I go back for the simulation after Easter they can line me up right. In order for the pen marks not to disappear in the next 2 weeks we talked about how I should be careful when I shower and to not rub myself dry. On my way home I was obsessing about this and thinking I should only shower every other day. Or every third day? Haven't I heard we wash too much for our own good anyway? Or maybe just a bath for my lower body and trickling the water over the top half....

So, what is the first thing I do when  I get home from this appointment? As a celebratory "done with chemo" treat for my boyfriend and myself, I order a whole Easter vacation at a wonderful spa hotel in Switzerland. Spa, as in Turkish steam bath, sauna, whirlpool, heated indoors swimming pool.... as in, lots of water involved here. HELLO! Where was my head???? I have markings on my body written with magic marker that I have to keep fresh for 2 weeks or else they will start radiating unintended parts of my body and I pay an extra lot of money for a vacation based on activities most likely to erase these markings?!?

So wonderful stage III forum ladies, any ideas on how to keep magic marker fresh on the body whilst frollicking in the hot tub? Plastic strips covering the markings? Would a one-piece suit be better than a bikini? (I only have a bikini at this point...) Does anyone have experience with heated pools/steam baths and can tell me if the markings wash away very quickly?

As you all can tell, I get anxious before a new treatment and I feel a need to know EVERYTHING beforehand. I know from experience that things will work out in the end, but I suppose this makes me feel more in control. You should have seen how many hours I spent on the internet trying to figure out how to tie the scarves I was going to use when my hair fell out!

Thanks SO much to you all for all the wonderful information about unibood dressing during rads! It is clear that there is a shopping trip for loose, patterned, linen/cotten, button-up, pocketed, one-size too big shirts in my near future. I will have to change my style for the duration (I usually wear tight-fitting tops, since I am so short) but, hey, I've already gone all ethnic with the flowing scarves on my head. Maybe I can try the hippy look- I was a little too young the first time it came around ;-)

What impresses me so much is how many of you got through rads without worrying too much about being lop-sided! I know that it isn't as noticeable as we think ourselves and, as my boyfriend says, who cares what anyone else thinks anyway. I have 2 weeks to work on my "proud uniboober" attitude! Thanks!

I was looking at some of my old posts and came over this one. I thought I would mention the system of clothing I came up with during rads that worked really well for me as a uniboober. I bought a whole bunch of cheap, soft camis/undershirts in different colors at H & M. I wore them backwards because they were higher in the back and I wanted to cover up as much as I could all the magic marker lines drawn on me. I wore 2 at a time and in between them I would safety pin in place my fiber fill form (to the outside cami). So I would have one cami against my skin and the 2nd cami would be holding the form in place (along with the safety pin). On top of the camis, I wore patterened tops- either close-fitting to help hold the form in place or loose to camoflage that the form would float around a bit. I thought it was best with patterned shirts/tops because the fiber-fill form looks kind of bumpy and not too realistic if you get a good look at it. This system worked really well for me all the way through rads. I have to say that I only got a little red and had no sores so I don't know how it would have worked in that case. But I hope this might help some future uniboober!