Kate Thies

A fight to go flat

A fight to go flat

Surgeons talked less about removing the cancer and more about risky surgery to emplace breast implants. No one offered the option of foregoing reconstructive surgery altogether.

If you don't like reading about boobs, you should move on, because this post is about boobs (or lack thereof). It is October, after all - the month of pink ribbons and catchy breast cancer slogans: Save the Tatas. Save Second Base. Big or Small, Save Them All.

I get it. They're funny. I chuckled a little. But can you imagine how these slogans would read if they were for prostate cancer? Save the Nuts? Swing for the Balls? Big or Small, Save them All? (That last one works both ways, doesn't it?)...

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