Morgan Wade Is 'Still Processing' Her Body After Double Mastectomy

And though she’s made it through the toughest of the pain, she’s still adjusting to her new look, which currently does not include nipples (She has the option of getting 3D nipples or tattooing nipples onto her implants down the line if she so chooses).

“Everything was gone. That was probably the weirdest part for me. I didn’t think I would care, but then when you go and you look in the mirror at yourself, it was just a lot to take in,” she says. “I’m still processing how different my body looks in that regard. As tough as it is to look in the mirror right now for me… [the scars will] heal up and it’ll be good. If you would’ve asked me a day after I did this, I would’ve been like, ‘Screw all of you. Why the hell did I do this?’ But now it’s helped me see things way differently.”

As she recovers, Wade has binge-watched all of Schitt’s Creek, as well as the Netflix series Escaping Twin Flames and Max’s Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God. She’s continued to write music during what she says has been a self-reflective period, and has finished recording what will be her third album, which she plans to release next year (Her second, Psychopath, came out in August).

She’s made peace with her decision, and remains committed to spreading the word and breaking the stigma on mastectomies.

“For a while, it seemed like the word mastectomy was creepy or weird. It’s not something you want to talk about like, ‘I have to go have my breasts removed,’” she says. “We have to talk about that stuff more. The pain really is temporary. It’s so worth it, taking control of your health.”

Sounds like a scam.

FTM top surgery, under the guise of "preventative care."

How did Kyle and Morgan meet? That coupling seems off.

[quote] It was close friend and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kyle Richards who helped put the surgery in motion

Very weird.

I would re-think that friendship.

Kyle will lose interest in her now.

She looks trans and sloppy.

[quote]Sounds like a scam.

[quote]FTM top surgery, under the guise of "preventative care."

Of course *you* would think so, OP. You're also so bent out of shape over Bradley Cooper going to his high school reunion that you had to start a thread on *that*. You seem to be a trifler.

Why do most FTM trans have tattoos. They look horrible and lets mutilate our body more....

Why doesn’t she have insurance?

[quote]Sounds like a scam. FTM top surgery, under the guise of "preventative care."

R2 If you read the article, she had breast reconstruction after the mastectomy, genius.

Why are you so trans-obsessed, r8?

[quote] You seem to be a trifler

As trifling as following someone around Datalounge, stalking them?

Trust me, I have not one iota of interest in you, R7.

But by all means, keep following me around like the dog that you are.

Great! Let's start forcing this on baby girls so they won't have to do it when they're older.

[quote]Great! Let's start forcing (mastectomies) on baby girls so they won't have to do it when they're older.

Another genius! Such intelligence in this thread.

If it wasn't for Kyle Richards, no one would know who Morgan Wade is and no one would care that she got her tits cut off.

r14 The breast buds could be removed so that they never grow.

Gay men sure are obsessed with breasts.

Good for her for deciding on the double mastectomy. As a breast cancer survivor, I opted to have a lumpectomy but I totally understand women who do this.

Cancer is still deadly, although not as much as it used to be. Still, getting it is a nightmare beyond what anyone who hasn't had it can understand.

Do better.

[quote][R14] The breast buds (of a baby girl) could be removed so that they never grow.

Congratulations, R16. You’ve won 2023’s “people with the most disturbing internet search history” award.

[quote] Cancer is still deadly, although not as much as it used to be.

I don't know about that. I think it just leaves us longer to wait until the inevitable other shoe drops than it used to.

True, r19. But with all the advances the death rate is much lower. According to a quick search they are 27% lower than they used to be.

My cancer has a 5% chance of returning. I'm still taking estrogen blockers because they can prevent it even more.

Time will tell, but at least I've lived a pretty long life. I was 52 when I caught it and I'm 54 now. My sister also had it and opted for a double mastectomy because she was terrified. It is terrifying to get it.

Cut to her getting colon cancer.

Mark my words-Kyle is going to have a double mastectomy next season on Housewives

r21 colon cancer is one of the most curable cancers. Which is why, when you hear of someone dying from it, it indicates they likely never went for a colonoscopy because they thought it was icky. I've had one colonoscopy and the prep was annoying but not terrible and I was asleep during the procedure and was fine afterwards.

Kyle lost her mom to breast cancer.

R23 Agreed — the cancerous tissue occurs in polyps inside the colon, and these growths can easily be removed before they turn cancerous.

Colorectal cancer has nearly doubled in under 40s over the last ten years. They are frequently diagnosed late stage because doctors (and health insurers) are slow to prescribe a colonoscopy or even consider that someone of a young age might have that type of cancer.

[quote] colon cancer is one of the most curable cancers. Which is why, when you hear of someone dying from it, it indicates they likely never went for a colonoscopy because they thought it was icky. I've had one colonoscopy and the prep was annoying but not terrible and I was asleep during the procedure and was fine afterwards.

As a colon cancer survivor (and one who is now battling metastatic colon cancer) this statement is no longer true. I was far under the age of needing a regular colonoscopy when I was diagnosed, and I was ONLY diagnosed because I insisted on one when I had multiple doctors telling me it couldn't possibly be cancer.

I did everything I was supposed to, regarding treatment and follow ups, and when it came back 6 years later, it came back in my skull. And guess what- no one ever monitors the head because that's not where colon cancer usually metastasizes. So I had all those follow ups and scans for nothing because they were only looking in the most obvious places. And today I may have found out it's spread even further. There's really no such thing as a curable cancer anymore. You're just biding time until it comes back. And it always comes back.

No it doesn't "always come back." You need to do your research.

Besides, they are on the verge of a cure for cancer. I predict they will have it within 2 years.

[quote] No it doesn't "always come back." You need to do your research.

Honey, I'm living it. Trust me, I've done my research.

And there will never be a cure for cancer. It would cripple the medical industry financially.

Why has colorectal cancer doubled in young people during the last 10 years? That’s quite alarming.

You are ONE person, r29 and colorectal cancer has a high rate of reoccurrence. So does Ovarian cancer.

Other cancers have much better survival rates and most do not come back. Some do but it simply means that the cancer cells were not all destroyed.

My breast cancer was estrogen based so the new drugs that are out there now are VERY good at preventing it from returning. I have no fear that it will return as I've made really healthy lifestyle changes and feel better than I ever have. Even IF it returns, I'm confident that the treatments that are out there will prolong my life for another 20-30 years.

I wish you the best, but please stop saying stuff that isn't proven.

R31, you're misunderstanding me. I was not talking about your cancer. I was talking about colon cancer, which the conversation had turned to.

I have no idea about your cancer.

But that being said, I truly believe it is not in the medical industry's best interest to find a cure for cancer. They don't care about curing people, they care about treatments that net them profits. Even if one was found, it would likely be suppressed.

Thanks, r32. I really hope you are getting good treatment and have a long life ahead of you.

The cure for cancer is very close and I don't believe in conspiracies like you do. I think the drug companies will make HUGE profits from a cure.

There was a 10 year difference from when my sister got breast cancer to when I did and the advancements in the way they treat was so amazing just in that span of time. They could genetically test my cancer to see if I would benefit from Chemo and it was decided there would only be a 1% benefit to my doing Chemo so I didn't need it. When my sister got it, that test didn't exist but because she opted for a double mastectomy, she didn't need it either. They wanted her to take the estrogen blockers and she refused. She also didn't need radiation. She's been cancer free for 15 years now. I'm so grateful for modern medicine.

Couldn't this grandstanding self-celebrating-for-clicks cunt have those melanoma-like tats cut from her skinses while she was at it?

Also, she needed to have her ovaries removed, too, to ensure a cancer-free situation with RAD51D.

They don't know, R30, which is frightening. Overall, colon cancer is more prevalent in those with high fat diets, smokers and alkies. But these are not necessarily prevalent in younger people. One theory is younger people have screwed up gut biomes due to pollution and modern farming techniques.

Thanks, R36. The gut biome theory also could explain why more younger people have digestion-related problems like GERD. When I was that age, those illnesses were rare in my peer group, but now I’m hearing about scores of millennials and zoomers suffering from things like acid reflux and IBS, and other “old people” conditions.

Excessive tattooing causes cancer

THANK YOU, R38!!!

Someone needs to tell this idiot about that.

WHO??

Double mastectomy has been an option for many years. My former boss had it in the mid 1960s, when she figured out that in the space of the previous 10 years, EVERY female relative she had over the age of 50 had died of breast cancer. (Mother, aunts, sister). It would be a hard decision though - we get attached to the body parts we were born with, even if they don't do much.

Are you saying breast don't do much?

About ten years ago a close female worker of mine told me that her sister wanted her to get this procedure done, since their family has a history of cancer.

She was on the fence about it, and I convinced her not to do it.

Fast forward ten years, she's didn't get cancer and she still has her breasts. She told me she's happy she didn't get it done.

Anyone who would willingly chop off a body part before they're even diagnosed with a disease as a "precautionary" measure, is just nuts.

[quote]Are you saying breast don't do much?

Compared to ovaries, no. Someone mentioned she should have her ovaries removed because of her genetics, but the health risk of doing that could outweigh the benefits because of losing estrogen production. Breasts are just fatty tissue, and can be easily reconstructed. Millions of women have breast augmentation/reconstruction for aesthetic reasons, so why not do it to lower the risk of cancer?

I agree, r43. My family is full of cancer--both parents, grandmother, aunts, uncles, cousins. I even have a male cousin who had breast cancer. My father just went through prostate cancer. I'm not getting mine removed because I may get it.

r44, female breasts are highly sensitive and very sexually arousing when someone touches them or sucks on them. They are a HUGE part of sex for women.

Not to mention they feed babies.

When you chop them off, you lose ALL sensations and you will never be able to breast feed. I wish more people understood that they are important to most women for the sexual stimulation alone.

[quote]Anyone who would willingly chop off a body part before they're even diagnosed with a disease as a "precautionary" measure, is just nuts.

Keep in mind some of these women who are at high risk for breast cancer are already mothers, and they’re not necessarily having preventative mastectomies for themselves; they’re doing it so their kids don’t end up without a mom. A lot of them lost their own moms from cancer, so i don’t see why you think they are “nuts” for considering this option.

What “modern farming techniques” cause cancer?

Makes you wonder what’s wrong in our environment that causes breast cancer so often.

[quote] Makes you wonder what’s wrong in our environment that causes breast cancer so often.

Let's start with all that poison tattoo ink entering the bloodstream.

R46 This isn't the target demographic to give a shite about womens erogenous zones.

I realize that, r51 but I find it necessary to point this shit out to clueless men.

Breast cancer is being found earlier because of better detection, r49. I don't believe it has to do with the environment or "farming techniques." It's mostly hereditary.

[quote]When you chop them off, you lose ALL sensations and you will never be able to breast feed. I wish more people understood that they are important to most women for the sexual stimulation alone.

R46 These are grown women making these decisions, not ignorant children. I’m sure they’re fully aware of the downside of breast removal. What’s your stake in controlling their decisions about what they do with their own bodies? Ditto to the tattoo troll. You both sound very condescending and paternalistic towards women.

I never said they shouldn't do it, r53. I completely understand it and am for it if that's what they want.

My issue was with the clueless idiot who said they have no function.

AND it's a devastation decision that some women have to make. It's not simply something they decide on because they want to avoid cancer. There is a lot of grief over that decision.

When they told me I should get a mastectomy, I was devastated. Then I did the research that shows that a lumpectomy was just as effective in the type of cancer that I had so that's what I opted for.

I remember when Angelina Jolie was faced with the same (or similar) issue and chose to have a double mastectomy and made the announcement public. And the shitstorm of abuse and negativity she received for it, everything from the kinds of comments on this thread to accusing her for trying to get a little publicity (by announcing it).

I actually thought it was quite brave of her to announce it, and I understood the reason why, and I applauded her for it. I'm not a woman, but I do have the experience of having cancer, and trust me, you wouldn't wish it on your worst enemy (Rosie O'Donnell be damned). If there was something I could have done preventatively that would have reduced my chances considerably from getting it, then I would have done it. I also understand that it's not an easy choice, it's a personal one, and no one should be shamed for either doing it or not doing it. It upsets me to hear that anyone would shit on someone who did make the choice to have the preventative surgery.

R56 I’m sorry to hear that you had to go through that, and I agree it’s terrible to shame people for their personal health care choices. I also hate dehumanizing language like “chopped off body parts” to describe mastectomies, as if the women are butchered animals. It’s very grotesque and uncalled for.

r42 - A breast is a very valuable part of a woman of child-bearing age who intends to have children. It stops being "functional" at menopause. That doesn't mean it doesn't have value - that's simply a statement of biological function. The median age of breast cancer diagnosis is 63. If a woman's female relatives are all diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 50 or higher, then preventative mastectomy would be warranted, sometime before 50. Once breast cancer actually develops, lifetime risk continues - but obviously very early stage breast cancer detection increases survival rates dramatically. On the other hand, if a woman has zero, or perhaps one relative only with breast cancer, I don't think preventative mastectomy would be necessary or wise. A ton of women are diagnosed early, have a lumpectomy with a little radiation and/or chemo to mop up the area, and they do just fine, often living out a normal lifespan without recurrence. But it's a very personal decision, and I can understand why lots of women would rather roll the dice.

R58 Women who get preventative mastectomies are usually carriers of the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutations, and their median age of cancer diagnose is mid-forties. Their risk is much higher than the general population.

R28, fucking LAY OFF R27. He has cancer in his skull, metastatic. FFS. And a cure for cancer in 2 years? Read Cancer: Emperor of All Maladies. Then come back to us.

And lay off R27.

Most people have an R28 in their family. The poor sister had a preventative mastectomy that Miss Know-It-All deems unnecessary and refers to the surgery as having one’s breasts brutally “chopped off..” Imagine the tension at the holiday get-togethers.

Oh shut suck my left tit, r61 and r60. My sister did what she thought she needed to do at the time given the information provided to her.

I did what I did at the time given the information provided to me.

I'm not a know it all. I'm someone who had cancer and was grateful for the advances they have made in the medical field related to my specific cancer. My reference to "chopping them off" is a humor response to cancer. It's how one gets through it when one thinks they might die. I even said to my friends, "Of COURSE I got cancer! Even my cells can't do math!"

And I said they are close to a cure because I know people in the field who have told me this.

And for the record, my sister never once regretted her choice to chop them off. She loves her new, bigger fake tits.

We are very close and grew even closer after I got it too.

R60, I do appreciate you sticking up for me, and you're very sweet, but I'm not upset with R28. She misunderstood what I said (and I could have made myself more clear). Anyone who has to deal with cancer of any sort should be treated with kindness (not that all the healthy people should be kicked in the ass, of course!) I would love to believe that there will be a cure for cancer in 2 years, I just don't. But I don't want to take that hope away from anyone.

Thank you, though. You made me smile.