One female-presenting morning, I opened my female-presenting eyes, only to find that my female-presenting sheets had been torn off my female-presenting bed and strewn about my female-presenting room. I decided, with my female-presenting brain, to jump out of my female-presenting bed to find the cause of this, only to notice that, when my female-presenting feet touched the female-presenting carpet, it was damp.
Looking down with my female-presenting eyes, I saw that it was covered in female-presenting blood. I opened my female-presenting mouth to scream, but female-presenting blood started to pour out, and my female-presenting eyes became filled with female-presenting blood-tears. Due to a massive loss of female-presenting blood, I died, and then a female-presenting skeleton popped out.
SHOUT OUT TO EVERYONE WHO STILL TRIES TO GET BACK INTO THE SWING OF THINGS AFTER DEPRESSION HIT THEM HARD. THERE ISN’T ENOUGH RECOGNITION FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO KNOW THAT THEY’RE GOING TO LOSE INTEREST AND MOTIVATION AGAIN BUT PUSH THEMSELVES TO DO STUFF ANYWAYS. YOU ARE FIGHTING A DAILY BATTLE WITH YOUR OWN THOUGHTS AND YOU’RE STILL COMING OUT ON TOP, YOU’RE ALL BRAVE AS FUCK
Guys, I decided to be brave and post this. I know I don’t have a very large reach, but I encourage others to share if they find this important. Just a warning: some may find these images difficult to view. I assure you, it’s even worse to experience.
After carefully reading over the new rules and regulations I discovered I’m in a unique situation to both test Tumblr’s new rules and law down some education at the same time. I’m exposing myself in the process, so please be kind.
These are female presenting breasts without nipples. As you will notice, they both look different. That’s because they are from two different forms of breast reconstruction. The left is a simple reconstruction with expander placed under the pectoral muscle immediately after mastectomy. It is slowly inflated during a series of appointments over several weeks or months. The right one initially looked like that as well until an infection required emergency surgical removal of the implant.
This is what I was left with after that surgery. It isn’t pretty, is it? I found a plastic surgeon to fix this, which is what I spent my summer doing.
The only way to reconstruct that breast was with a form of reconstruction that uses donor muscle, tissue, and skin from my back. This is called a lat flap reconstruction. You can see the beautiful artwork my surgeon did with a sharpie in preparation for my surgery. That should give you an idea of how extensive this surgery was. The surgery itself was 8 hours and recovery is ongoing months later.
And that gets us back to here:
I have a massive scar on my back and a Frankenstein breast, but it’s the closest thing I’ve had to normal in 8 years. I still have to go in every couple of weeks for fills in the new breast because they’re not quite even yet. Then I get to wait a couple of months for things to rest before my final surgery where we’ll replace the expander with actual implants.
So there you have it. Female presenting breasts, no nipples, and all posted in the name of education. What do you say, Tumblr? Is this good enough for your new rules?
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