Optimal reconstructive surgical outcomes are for everyone, and we are the ones to decide and define what reconstruction looks like for us. Kim Bowles with Not Putting on a Shirt joins Tammey to share her story as she chronicles her fight against surgical battery, Kim talks to us about how this strengthened her commitment women’s rights and shares how she used the power of the 1st Amendment to plant the seeds of advocacy for aesthetic flat closure. In this episode, we learn more about aesthetic flat closure as a reconstruction option, obtain tools for self-advocacy, and hear about resources for better clearer communications with your provider.Topics in this Episode:IntroA Historical Review of ReconstructionAre you wanting breast reconstruction or chest wall reconstruction?Always gonna be someone who judges you and your decisionsRestoration, reclamation, realityThere is surgery and then there is aesthetic surgerySelf-advocate! Is there an echo in here??Not the puppy dog kind. . .Finding a common language for the clearest communicationWe decide how important our breasts are to us.Don’t accept assumed knowledgeI’m still me, damnit!!Question integrity... always!Sexism in medicine?I have autonomy over my plan.What is surgical battery?An artifact of medical history.Make a big deal over it!!A systemic problem...Constitutional rights.How to help yourself and othersSign offGuest Contact Information and Social Links:Website: www.notputtingonashirt.orgInstagram: www.instagram.com/NotPuttingonaShirtFacebook: www.www.facebook.com/NotPuttingonaShirtYouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC7LS4oToXH_oJMYAKz5JmPAContact Information and Social Links:Website: www.yourkillerlife.comInstagram: www.instagram.com/yourkillerlifeFacebook: www.facebook.com/yourkillerlifeYouTube: www.youtube.com/yourkillerlifeTwitter: www.twitter.com/not_shirtResources:Be a guest on the Your Killer Life PodcastSponsor the Your Killer Life PodcastBook Tammey or Griff as a speaker or podcast guestSnag Your Killer Life Swag!Check out the Your Killer Life blog posts, or the original blog, Killer Left BoobThis podcast is professionally edited by Roth Media