i decided that all of this needs to be out in the open and perhaps it will help more understand the danger of implants......

a person would only have to see my chest one time, to feel the anger, sadness, pain and fear of rejection because of the mutilation of my body.

and this happens every day. somewhere, more than one woman will be sitting in a doctor's office tomorrow, with a misshaped breast, in horrid pain, and he's at his wit's end at how he is going to help her. i went to different doctor's for help...ones that didn't do the the surgery that was f----- up. one doctor actually cried when he saw my chest. he even called the doctor that had done the last surgery. this man is a world reknowned plastic surgeon who operates on celebrities every day. he's seen almost every thing that you could see when it comes to botched plastic surgery.

my advice is that if you're ever offered reconstruction or if you just want bigger breasts.......do your research and do it well. and above all, talk to every woman that you can find that has had implants inserted into her body.

and YES, i know that some people have implants and have never had trouble. this is about what happens when something does go awry.

there is a photograph of me, with only one breast,(i went without an implant for five years and developed horrid arthritis in my neck because i compensated for the "off balance of weight" on my chest..) standing by my big camera that is on a tripod, in a famous book about women from all over the world. it was in an exhibition in Montreal and people stood, looking at it and openly wept.

if one woman who reads my ranting poem, hesitates and rethinks her feelings about her body.......that is enough for me. love, pat

p.s. due to all of this, i'm in a fight for my life right now. my immune system is being attacked by the silicone from implant rupture.
going public seems the thing do do now.