40. Dragging my heels?

I book in for what I hope will be the penultimate procedure – my nipple reconstruction. I don’t feel a sense of urgency at this stage to complete my reconstruction and we agree a date 16 weeks after my last operation as I want to schedule it around other things in my life - a sponsored walk, a ball, half term and my son’s exams. I reflect on this and realize that perhaps a part of me wants to delay the inevitable. Up to this point I have told myself that my breasts are work in progress and I can delay judgment on how they genuinely look and how I feel about the way I look. As I near the end of the reconstruction process I will need to accept my appearance, for better or worse.