At age 46, in 2015, when I first heard the words, “You have breast cancer," my brain just screamed, “GET THEM OFF!” I quickly dismissed lumpectomy as an option because I couldn’t be left with the nagging thought, “Did they get it all?” But being a woman brought up in our hyper-sexualized world where Barbie’s figure has been the ideal, I initially thought I wanted a bilateral mastectomy with reconstructive surgery. The scheduling for reconstruction would require coordination between both a...