2025-08-10 – News – www.theguardian.com
Two months after my single mastectomy, I felt sore, sad and scarred. Looking for a suitable bra, I became completely overwhelmed
I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2019 and immediately had to have a single mastectomy. Told by the doctors I needed to wear very soft bras for a while, two months after the surgery I went to my local department store to find something suitable.
I was hobbling around and feeling really awful about myself – sore, sad and scarred, and as though I’d never look attractive again. Somewhere deep in the racks of bras I became so overwhelmed by it all that I just broke down and started sobbing.
