Ode to My Breasts, a Eulogy and a Celebration of Life

The Breast is Yet to Come…My Journey Through Breast Cancer, Treatment and Reconstruction

Danielle Tantone
ILLUMINATION
Published in
9 min readFeb 24, 2020

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Photo Credit: Southern Charlotte Photography. I wanted to capture some before pictures but wasn’t quite comfortable going nude. The black splatters represent cancer. If you look close you can also see a purple line down the center of my chest and two purple diamonds where they would cut to remove the breast tissue

Watching the new Little Women movie…

in the theater several weeks ago, I was struck by the fact that I never really grieved the loss of my breasts. Or celebrated their life…

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Danielle Tantone
ILLUMINATION

“We are all a piece of work, a work in progress and a work of art, all at the same time.” I aim to inspire people to live their best life.