Soul Searching and Weighing my Options (And Resources!) -Sacramento, CA

You look beautiful! Your attitude and optimism is beautiful as well. Thank you for your story. I think a lot of women go into an augmentation thinking they have researched everything, thinking they are well informed, but I really don't think they are. I know I wasn't. I thought I was. I naively thought I would die an old lady with my implants. That I would get them replaced up until I was 90 years old. The reality doesn't set in until it's too late for most, I'm afraid! I wish you all the best in your recovery. Soft hugs, my friend :-)

Thank you for sharing your journey with such openness and painful honesty. It is pretty horrid that mutilation of women's body is such a large money-making industry in the US (yet we all shake our heads in superiority when we hear about things in the news like female genital mutilation in other parts of the world). What's worse is that the voices of those of us who have been damaged by "elective surgery" fall on deaf ears. The mass media won't touch this issue because they don't want to lose advertising dollars. It's tragic that young women today are receiving implantation surgery as high school graduation gifts! Absolutely appalling. Our country is extremely unbalanced and yes, barbaric. Barbarians are people who are cruel, savage and violent. No wonder we have the reputation for being known as "Ugly Americans" by the rest of the world. Natural is beautiful. Blessings to the women who have the course to remain natural in the first place, but most of all to the brave ones who have chosen to get off the treadmill of socially pressured self-mutilation. Love and Light to us all!