Hi,

On the breast cancer site they ask you to sign a petition to ask Victoria's Secret to continue making bras for breast cancer patients. It would be nice if all of you can sign the petition.

I am a breast cancer survivor since 2005, and went through the following:
1. A partial mastectomy of my right breast (they thought they removed the cancerous part, one third of my breast). (2005)
2. A full mastectomy of my right breast (they found after testing the removed part that the whole breast had cancer). (2005)
Both these cases meant a normal bra just did not fit anymore.

I had to walk around with only one breast and ill fitting clothes for two years before the doctor decided the cancer was in remission and that I could have a breast reconstruction. (2007)

BUT: a reconstructed breast is still not the same as a normal breast, and you still need special bras. And if you wear pretty clothes, you feel better. And while you have chemotherapy, you need everything that can make you feel better. (Luckily I'm done with that.)

And after chemotherapy, you want to wear pretty clothes just like all the people with their own breasts. And apparently breast cancer patients need pretty, sexy clothes more than others, as 93% of married breast cancer patients loses their husbands. (Statistics I got from the surgeon's rooms when I asked why all the ladies were so upset about losing their breasts. I was sort of OK, because: 1. I was still alive, the cancer was caught in time; and 2. I'd rather lose a breast than an arm or a leg.)

I signed their petition, what about you?

Regards
Anneliese