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Sep. 7th, 2004 12:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phosfateHad My First Mammogram[TM] this morning. I will spare you the details. Suffice to say that it was worse than, say, an ill-fitting underwire bra, but nothing like as bad as slamming a tit in the car door.
I am a bit concerned, because Big Nurse Rad Tech was missing large patches of hair.
I am a bit concerned, because Big Nurse Rad Tech was missing large patches of hair.
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Date: 2004-09-07 10:59 am (UTC)Big Nurse Rad Tech sounds, uhm, worrisome. Radiation meters anyone?
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Date: 2004-09-07 11:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-09-07 11:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-07 11:37 am (UTC)I keep not going.
(And, no, there's no reason for them to keep sending me; it's just the general medical "wisdom" that says every woman needs to get a mammogram, blahblahblah. Lessee, yeah, hours of travel time/carsicness in the clinic van, just for a test I'm not that interested in having. No.)
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Date: 2004-09-07 11:58 am (UTC)*offers chocolate*
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Date: 2004-09-07 12:13 pm (UTC)Might not be the radiation, it might just be women she squished who lunged and ripped out her hair when set free.
My sis is a nurse, has been one for about 30 years, she says that a mammagram should *never*, *ever* hurt and if it does, the person who's doing it is doing it wrong and must be physically injured to teach them how to do it correctly. Or at least not to do it wrong. She also says you can cut down your odds of getting squished painfully by not allowing a male tech to do it to you. "Why?" I asked her, all a-quiver to gain knowledge. "Because they are a**holes," she said in the maternal tones of a village crone instructing a Young One in The Ways of the World.
Who knew?
At any rate, I've had three over the past 10 years (mammograms, not male techs) and they never, ever hurt. And there I was, looking forward to punching some poor tech out and all.
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Date: 2004-09-07 12:27 pm (UTC)While setting me up for the last one, she said, "If you'd stop your intake of caffeine a few days before the next time, it won't hurt as much."
"Oh," I said, smiling, "That is so not going to happen."
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Date: 2004-09-07 12:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-09-07 01:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-07 01:56 pm (UTC)In any case, I wouldn't worry if you get a metal one - the cold'll make 'em all perky.
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Date: 2004-09-07 02:08 pm (UTC)(And now I have Richard Coyle as Jeff Murdoch muttering "breasts!" over and over in my brain!)
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Date: 2004-09-07 01:16 pm (UTC)--sah
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Date: 2004-09-07 01:22 pm (UTC)I'm not sure they're that bright. They've never come up with a pill to substitute for the prostate exam.
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Date: 2004-09-07 07:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-07 07:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-07 02:38 pm (UTC)The lube, the snap of a fresh latex glove, and then it's In Search of Mr. Prostate!
JSM
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Date: 2004-09-07 02:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-07 05:33 pm (UTC)The first one committed me to heterosexuality for life.
JSM
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Date: 2004-09-07 06:09 pm (UTC)Cannot resist this one...
Date: 2004-09-08 06:40 am (UTC)Neither are the ultrasound, biopsy and surgeries that could follow it.
The good news is...my future mammograms will take half the time now! Everything has a bright side. Even cancer.
Re: Cannot resist this one...
Date: 2004-09-08 10:05 am (UTC)