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For a character I never warmed up to, I have to give her props for the cancer SL. She is playing it very well and realistically.
Lauren Koslow’s Kate could take some hints on how to play a cancer patient’s scenes, especialy someone who was diagnosed with late stage lung cancer.
Although I didn’t have breast cancer or know anyone who has, I wouldn’t act the way Adrienne did. It was a matter of life & death to have the procedure. Although it was not due to cancer, I did have a hysterectomy & I didn’t fall apart having to lose part of my body, and a more important part than the breast.
Not that one is more important than the other, but I think that losing breasts could be a lot more traumatizing for some women because it’s such a visible part of our bodies. Nobody looking at you would know you had a hysterectomy, but it may be more obvious if someone’s had a mastectomy and/or reconstruction. It can change the way you look, and that can be very hard thing to adjust to. I am in no way diminishing what it must be like to lose your uterus, I’m just saying I can definitely empathize with how difficult it must be to lose such a visible body part; one that can crush a woman’s self-confidence and make them feel less attractive.
That scene actually made me tear up, and that hardly ever happens to me with Days! I truly felt her pain and her loss.
I also had a hysterectomy, but I don’t look in the mirror and notice a uterus is missing. However, Adrienne has to look in a mirror and notice that she’s missing a significant body part. I also remember a scene where she mentioned nursing her babies and I think that’s another part of the trauma. I have known several people who have had breast cancer and had mastectomies and it is so different, physically speaking, than a hysterectomy.
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