Shingles can be triggered by stress so no wonder we both got it at that time. And you got COVID too. Sheesh! I’m not good to use as a benchmark since my body overreacts to everything. Slow healer.

No, I won’t have cosmetic surgery for many reasons. I don’t do well with anesthesia. I can’t take pain meds, not even OTC ones. I have a rare hereditary neuropathy that exaggerates all pain and my nerves are easily damaged. I have the painful and unsightly keloid scarring disorder. After 2 years of level 10 stabbing and slicing pains in the scars that hit about once an hour including while sleeping, I finally had 120 excruciatingly painful kenalog injections into the scars over a 3 year period to reduce the scars and pain. I wouldn’t want to go through all that again. Those were also reasons that I wouldn’t even consider reconstruction in the first place. My DMX was 11 years ago and my sides under my upper arms are still very tender to touch. I still have occasional shooting pains in my chest. My ROM is still limited after months of PT 3 different times over the years, but good enough to be functional so that’s okay. My chest is really tender where I had the recurrence chest wall BC resected 4 years ago. That being said, I’m still here enjoying life so all is good.