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Weight Gain After Breast Cancer
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“The doctors and insurances companies woke up enough to realize that your breasts are a huge part of your self-image, so when you have a mastectomy, insurance pays for reconstruction. And then they finally understood that being bald is a body image issue, too, so they pay for wigs. When are they going to realize that being fat is just as bad as losing a breast or your hair?”
That was the complaint of one of the women I was with last week, as we enjoyed our monthly get-together at a local...
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Source: Breastcancer.org
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Source: Breastcancer.org
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