Stupid comments ....

I don't know if GIFs work here, but I like how the gals from Broad City deal with someone who tells them to smile.

http://giphy.com/gifs/broad-city-ilana-glazer-abbi...

great gif I think I could do that for a select few.

Tjh,

I'm proud of you too! I were you I would definetaly speak up my mind!!!! Why people are like that?! 

tjh,

You should be proud of you self-restraint. When I was bald and still had my JP drains in, a woman pursued me into the bathroom saying, "sir, sir, you're in the wrong restroom." I was wearing a scoop neck top with lace on it. I asked if there was a special restroom for women with cancer. I have no idea why baldness is taken as an invitation to make stupid, nasty, condescending remarks, but it is. Some days, even now that I have hair, I can't match your restraint. I'm impressed!

bride

the most stupid thing I heard was the morning after my BMX with recon using TEs.

My nurse, who had been a hairdresser before nursing school, commented, "Isn't it amazing that there is no pain after a mastectomy?"

I couldn't even respond. All I could think was that sheshould go back to hairdressing!

There is very little pain when all you get is a mastectomy, but recon is a whole different ballgame.

LaStar hope you don't mind that I brought the gif here

There is very little pain when all you get is a mastectomy, but recon is a whole different ballgame

That is really incorrect. Yes, recon is painful,, but having a mastectomy w/o recon is not a walk in the park either. Interesting that you posted under Stupid Comments, cuz you certainly made one yourself. Thanks for telling all of us who didn't have recon, that we really didn't have pain.

Hey glennie...BigSis was quoting her stupid nurse.

Dang Diane!! I wish there was a LIKE button. Or an "im so sorry you have to endure such stupidity" button.

MODERATORS Are you listening?

I love to hear you stand up for yourself. Lord knows we need it.

You're like the rest of us. We're sick and tired of stupid. Go get'em, Bulldog.

glennie19--I stand corrected. Funny how I just didn't think myself! Lol

I suppose I was thinking of my dad who traveled this breast cancer journey just a couple years before me. He was in his 80s and told me how surprised he was at the lack of pain after his mastectomy. Silly me. He did have much less surgery than we did!

He gets to go for yearly mammo on the remaining breast. I can't imagine how they get it under the machine.

just found this thread...has made me smile...Thankyou everyone!

I have have had "oh,you are a nurse so you should know"

How are YOU....looking at your boobs.

"I could never have all that"or "I would want to remain flat",after I decided on a DIEP

OR...."yes,you are so lucky to get rid of your tummy,wish I could have the same"

Fact is,op has not been entirely successful,have chronic seroma,and will probably remain with a big tummy for ever....that is another story.

Oh yes,am NOT BRAVE,nor is it a BATTLE😊 rant over.....X

Jilly, my seroma took about a year there abouts. time will tell hang in there

"you look so great with no hair! I think you should keep that look!"

Not having hair has been extremely stressful on my marriage. Keeping this look would probably end it. Of course, this person has no way of knowing that, and stating an opinion isn't stupid, but I really wish they'd kept this opinion to themselves.

Your mom is a gem! She sounds like the true test of unconditional love herself. She will be rather surprised at good reconstructed nipples look too.