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Show CHRYSALIS PAGE 157 about cancers. Do they get into your bloodstream and spread, and pop out like a pimple sometimes? "I have a flat chest. That doesn't bother me so much. I am very uninformed about these matters, but I made a sort of camisole out of a slip and I stuff it with nylon scarves. They can be wadded up and they make a nice, light, springy pad that doesn't flatten out or press too heavily. This works fine except that it slides up." Finally Mama writes, "The doctor has given me a prescription for a prosthesis. I bought the kind the saleslady recommended, and a new bra with pockets in it. After wearing nylon scarves, this feels so good and looks good. Now I have a brand new figure! People say, 'How are you?' and I always say, 'I'm just fine.' And I am fine, too, except when I am depressed or can find something to worry about. "The stitches will gradually go away and the scars will get lighter. My arms will get over being numb and my skin will fit again. I have decided that I am going to quit worrying, to live until I die, be it from pneumonia or from falling down and breaking my neck. I am not ever going to worry again - really! "But, I wonder now," she says, "if that little mole on ray |