"What the Heck?!"

So I've been dreading the day that Talia sees my "new breasts" since this all happened. What will I say? How will she react? Visions of her running out of the room screaming have passed through my head.

So today we were out on the front steps working on an art project with Tessa (my wonderful cousin) and I said I was going to take a shower. About 15 minutes later Talia comes into the bathroom and wants to hang out. I'm in a glass shower. And I start panicking. Shit! It's too soon, the incisions look too gruesome still. What am I going to say!? She asks me to wipe away the water so she can see me so I slyly wipe away the water up at my eyes. Immediately she says "No mommy, I want to see your body!". Damn, now what?! So with sweaty palms and my heart pounding I wipe away more water so she can get a full visual. She kind of looks me up and down and then says "Mommy, um, where are your nipples?" like it's the most normal question in the world. I say "Well in the operation, the doctors had to remove my nipples because of the breast cancer, but don't worry, I'm gonna get new ones soon." She gives me the oddest look and says "New nipples, what the heck!". It was priceless. Then I get out of the shower and start to dry off and I kneel down on the ground and let her kind of inspect me. She points to each little wound and asks if it hurts and each time I answer honestly. And then she flitted out of the room, off to her next task. What a relief, something I'd been dreading for the last few weeks is finally over, another thing I can check off my list.