Kerry Wright, 54, and two other breast cancer survivors took back their bodies and turned their mastectomy scars into art with stunning tattoos. The non-profit Personal Ink helped connect them with volunteer tattoo artists to make it happen.
Eileen Finan is a senior staff writer at PEOPLE. She's been working as a writer and editor at PEOPLE since 2000.The nonprofit Personal Ink helps breast cancer survivors turn their scars into art by connecting them with volunteer tattoo artistsbreast cancer survivor, assistant professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, who specializes in breast cancer reconstructions.
After her final reconstruction surgery in November 2021, when she decided against nipple reconstruction , Wright began to reconsider. But she quickly realized that a tattoo covering such a large space would be more than she could easily afford— upwards of $1,500 to $1,800. “Cancer is expensive. Post-cancer is expensive because of all the medications,” Wright says. “I couldn’t justify taking that out of the household budget for myself.”Then she came across a social media post from P.
It was a surprisingly easy decision for Janet Wiseman to skip reconstructive surgery after undergoing her double mastectomy in 2015. “I’m very athletic, and my pair always got in the way when I was working under the car or when I’m jogging,” says Wiseman, 56, a former Annapolis, Md., firefighter captain. “They were for appearance only. They weren’t something I was attached to!”
For Wiseman, the experience was profoundly meaningful: “After a battle with cancer, you’re left with pieces. This makes me feel like I’m not sewn together in a bad way. God’s brought this to completion. I don’t see a scar anymore. I see courage. I see power. I won.”Since she was diagnosed with four different kinds of breast cancer in 2014, Dawn Pugh has had to face losing her breasts twice.
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