The Cancer Countdown...

The Cancer Countdown...

by Liv Published on October 27th, 2009, 2:46 pm Rift: NEWS

So you get a call from your doctor whom informs you everyone in your family is dying and the only thing you can do to stop from dying yourself is to have a major disfiguring surgery removing your breasts and ovaries. Why? Because it's genetic and there's nothing else you can do. Talk about a bad day, getting that news.

Two sisters have been advised to have their breasts and ovaries removed after four women in their family were struck down with cancer.

Pamela Lewis, 56, and Sue Postans, 57, were offered the drastic operations when their two younger sisters and two cousins were diagnosed with the disease.

All females in the family have been told they may all have a gene which makes them develop breast cancer in middle-age.

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Then there's the question, what if a cure arises? What if they're wrong. I'm not sure if I could go through the surgery even based on the overwhelming evidence? Could you?

[A Person]

To try to put a male perspective on it, it would be like losing your balls and stopcock.

I think I would go with losing the ovaries and keep the boobs. (Or lose the balls but keep the stopcock)

But breast reconstruction is a lot easier and effective than stopcock reconstruction, and prosthetic balls substitutes are really easy*, so maybe I can't imagine an equivalence

*If not completely natural

"It wasn't even close to being the same size as my other one, and it doesn't feel the same either — it has a superball feel to it," Johnson said. "I expected the size and texture to be better."

My feeling is that by the time she gets to compare the size and texture, you're at home base, so why worry? And doesn't SuperBall have a certain ring to it?

A little rubber duckie implanted into the scrotum might well have a certain notoriety which could be advantageous. How many women could resist giving it a squeeze - especially if it squeaked?

[Liv]

Wow. A squeeking scrotum.... Wow.

[SouthernFriedInfidel]

No, I can't imagine the change of life that something like this would cause for a woman. But I do know that many women have managed to live for years after mastectomies... though how happily I couldn't guess. Myself, if I was told by my doctor that my life would be extended by a decade or so if I removed my genitals, I expect I'd choose to follow the advice. After getting verification from at least one other doctor.

I mean, sex is fun, but there are plenty of other sorts of fun to be had in life, so that losing sex wouldn't make life unbearably dull. I think...

[A Person]

After a huge goodbye party of course

[SouthernFriedInfidel]

Oh of course. Imagine the party favors... Or not, as you prefer.

[A Person]

Like these?

[A Person]

I would like to apologize for riding this once serious and meaningful thread off course and far into the bush.