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Visitors' Stories -- Claudia's Story (page 3):One Month - I just passed my one-month mark on 11/26/98. I feel like I am whole. I forget that I even had the surgery and it is not consuming me anymore. I feel natural and like a woman. My breasts start about four or five fingers from my collarbone. I don't know if this is high, but I like the way they look and if they don't drop anymore, I would be satisfied. In a jogging bra they look great. Naked, they look great head on, but from the side they still are bulging at the top without the aid of a push up bra. My whole attitude has changed for the better. I used to be embarrassed to be seen anywhere near bras or other lingerie because I didn't feel feminine enough to even want them. Now I can enter the store and browse at my leisure. I always felt like I was entitled to feel happy about my body and now I do. If I lost my implants tomorrow, I still feel that I would be more accepting of my body, and allow myself to feel feminine. This has spread to my dealings with my daughter who is almost 12. She has not developed yet. We went shopping and she was near Jogging bras for young ladies. I asked her if she wanted one, and she smiled and said yes. She may not need it for support, but in school she changes clothes with other girls, and she is entitled to feel feminine, and to have privacy. I have the whitest skin I know of, and light areolas, so my incision is still noticeable. I know they will continue to fade. My sensitivity has returned a very small bit to my right breast. The nipple (not areola) is sensitive almost entirely around it and the areola is about 1/3 and the breast 1/3. The left breast is touch sensitive around the base, and numb towards the nipple. Little by little, more feeling is returning. I am physically able to do anything now that I did before. I am still careful not to lift and carry heavy loads, not for another week or so. Now I am in the phase of worrying about money and a second surgery, should something go wrong in the next five years. I am hoping for at least five good years before a second surgery. I would not go larger if I had to replace my implants. I think my size is just about perfect, I can dress them up or play them down. It is amazing to me that saline-filled bags can make me feel like a real woman. I am not embarrassed in bed with my husband, and I feel like a grown up now, not a little girl. I think that alone is worth $5000! (continued - click forward arrow to read more).
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