28 Mastectomy Tats- Winning Women Survivors

I’d love to be able to say that I can’t imagine what it feels like to have to contemplate the few options that women with breast cancer are given after surgery when it comes to dealing with what they’re going to do with the unattractive carnage left by scalpels that while in marring, hopefully at the same time saved their lives.

The mastectomy is just the beginning. There’s chemotherapy, sometimes coupled with radiation, hair loss, and just general malaise.  You don’t think too much about your missing tata or tatas just then; but there comes a time when you have to decide if you didn’t at the time of the original surgery, reconstructive surgery or no? Even with reconstructive surgery, you’re left without a reasonable facsimile of a nipple and other scar tissue.  I do know though, and that makes me admire the pictures following and the women in them, even more.

I applaud these 28 brave and winning women survivors and the choice they’ve made in dealing with their disfigurement.

I would have liked to be able to source all of the tattoo artists who are responsible for such stupendous work but unfortunately, that information wasn’t given from the many different sources I found these images. To each and all of you involved in such projects, kudos!

If you had to make such a difficult choice as these women have what do you think you would do? And you men, what would you think about this if it was your wife or girlfriend? Let us know, I, in particular, would be very interested in knowing.

20 Life Hacks To Simplify Your Life

Some of these are brilliant, you learn something new every day, right? And who couldn’t use a simple time saver now and again?  I know things like these come in awfully handy when I’m running short on time, or trying  to decide what would be a better way to do something.  Let us know what you think!

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Monster Rat Terror

Stockholm mother Signe Bengtsson first became aware of the beast lurking in her home when the family’s pet cat Enok refused to enter their kitchen.

A few days later she went to put the rubbish out and said: “It was right there in our rubbish bin, a mighty monster”. It was enormous, and I simply screamed.

Her husband Erik Korsas, who was away camping with one of their sons at the time, was skeptical that such a monstrous rat could really exist — until he laid eyes on it himself.

“By the time I got home, the rat was so domesticated that it just sat beneath the kitchen table,” he said.

The rat had chewed its way into the apartment through cement and wood floors and caused a small flood in the family’s kitchen when it gnawed through the dishwasher’s water pipes.

Bengtsson and Korsas’s sons nicknamed the unwanted houseguest “Putin rat” and “Viking rat”.

Pest controllers swooped in to catch the abomination, but the rat was so huge that even heavy-duty traps failed to immediately kill it.

Even when the rat was caught by the neck, it was still able to crawl behind the dishwasher — where it finally died.

“The kids were afraid it would come back to life as some sort of zombie rat. They didn’t want to touch it,” Korsas said.

“The pest controllers said they’d never seen such a big rat before,” said Bengtsson.

Personally, I would have gone POSTAL!! let us know what you think.

How To Make A Watermelon Keg

I know what you’re thinking: “What if I attached a faucet to a watermelon and filled it with spiked watermelon juice so party guests could serve themselves right from the melon?” Well This ladies husband made it a reality. Let me introduce you to The Watermelon Keg. You can wow your guests with this very unique idea and send them all on their way to enjoying a very good night.

We followed the Directions of The Instructables  for this one.

What you will need from the Hardware Store

-Hose Bibb, Quarter Turn (that’s the tap)
-Faucet Lock Nuts (those black circles)
-Brass Pipe Nipple 1/2″ (the piece with threads on both ends)
-Coupling 1/2″ (what looks like a hex nut)
-drill bit (optional)

What you will need from the grocery store
-Watermelon (I used a very small melon for this demo, but you’ll need a big one if you want more than two drinks out of it)
-Saran wrap (or similar cling wrap)

What you will need from your kitchen
-paring knife
-ice cream scoop (a spoon could work in a pinch)
-large bowl
-blender
-strainer / sieve

And most importantly, what you will need from the liquor store
-vodka or your poison of choice (this is optional, but there’s not much of a point without it, right?)

Use your knife to cut the top off your melon.Try to keep the hole fairly small, but make sure it’s big enough to stick your hand in. Make sure you cut on an angle (like you would if you were carving a pumpkin) so you can use the top as a lid without it falling in.

You can cut a small notch out of the lid to make it easier to refill your melon after your guests inevitably finish off the original contents.

Scoop out all the contents and set it aside for later.

Using the drill bit, make a hole near the bottom of your melon. Be sure to put it on the prettiest side of your watermelon (this is, after all, what all your guests will be admiring). 
If you don’t have a drill bit handy, a corkscrew would work. Using a paring knife, make the hole the same size as your coupling. Take your time with this step as you’ll need a good fit if you don’t want it to leak. Don’t just shove your coupling in the hole as a bruised melon won’t be watertight.
Screw your nipple into the coupling with one of the lock nuts in between. It’s not nearly as nasty as it sounds. Push the coupling through the melon. Place a small piece of saran wrap over the coupling and cut an opening in the middle. The plastic wrap should help prevent leaks. Screw on the tap with a lock nut between the tap and the coupling. Wrap the excess saran wrap around the edge of the lock nut and trim it so it looks pretty.
 
Throw the watermelon guts into a blender and turn it into juice. Pour the juice through a strainer to get the worst of the pulpy bits out. Add a generous helping of vodka and stir.Add the mix back into the watermelon an pop the top back on.
 
And simply ENJOY! 
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