Hello and thank you all for helping with my decision to go flat

Oops, I think I deleted my first post! D'oh. Here it is again.

Hello everyone, I just joined BCO and I wanted to make my first post a heartfelt "thank you" to all posters on this forum who have written about going flat after mastectomy. I just had a bilateral mastectomy 12 days ago, after a recurrence of DCIS less than 2 years after lumpectomy and radiation. I spent days researching options for reconstruction. My surgeon told me that the chances of capsular contraction with implants were high due to the prior radiation, and the thought of carving up other bits of myself for tissue flaps, and all the surgery that entails, was very unappealing to me. I looked at hundreds of online photos of reconstruction, and just concluded that, for me, there was too much uncertainty about the cosmetic outcome and that it was not worth the pain and potential complications of additional surgery. But I still felt very alone in making this decision, when there is soooo much information out there about recon.During one late tear-filled night, after Googling "flat after mastectomy," I came across this site, and Breastfree, and FlatandFabulous, and I got a great deal of comfort and affirmation from reading your stories, and your outlook on living without breasts. So, to all of you who have traveled this path, thank you, thank you. And I wanted to add that I find it very distressing that some surgeons pressure women to have recon. My BS, God bless her, asked me if I was interested in recon, and didn't bat an eyelash when I said no. I asked her to make me smooth and flat for the mastectomy, and she listened. She's a compassionate healer and an artist with her scalpel. I wish all doctors were as understanding.