Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!topaz!sommers From: sommers@topaz.ARPA (Liz Sommers) Newsgroups: net.women.only Subject: bodies Message-ID: <245@topaz.ARPA> Date: Sun, 13-Jan-85 14:52:26 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.245 Posted: Sun Jan 13 14:52:26 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jan-85 01:28:27 EST Distribution: net Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 14 (Ignore this line at your own risk). Has anybody reading this list gone through a lot of surgery lately? Right now I am recovering from a bilateral masectomy (with reconstruction). I had a hysterectomy 5 months ago. I am beginning to have real problems relating to my body as a "woman's body" now. I am getting tired of hearing how "you will look better than ever".... I really don't care how I look. How can a woman relate to her body when all the important parts seem to be gone? I always thought this was the sort of thing that might happen to my grandmother, not me. It is making me feel old and scared. liz seismo!topaz!sommers