Mammo?
Today’s question is: Why is the mammogram machine so awful?
Background: OK, I’ve decided that if men had to get mammograms the entire system would be different. There is no way a man would stand for having a part of his body, a breast no less, “the delightful supplement to the essence of a woman” as sc put it the other day, through the mammogram. The thing is the first time I experience the mammo I didn’t think it was so bad. A squish here, a squish there, not too painful. I wasn’t sure what all the hype was about.
Then I failed.
When you fail you have to go back for the diagnostic. This takes the mammogram to a whole new level. Talk about squishing. It’s like trying to flatten the breast into a pancake, a really thin pancake. Actually it reminds me of those stress balls. You know those things you squeeze in your hands to relieve stress? Imagine taking one of those and trying, ever so hard, to flatten it. You’d probably have to step on it to get it the flattest. That’s what the diagnostic is like. The flattening of something impossible to make flat. OUCH.
Makes me wonder why they don’t have a different system.
Is that why we like those stress balls so much? Oh, that’s so insensitive of me, did you pass the second time? BTW, thanks for another boob post.
Comment by hankjr — October 10, 2007 @ 4:48 pm
hankjr, you see I was thinking everyone was freaking on me and not posting, thanks, I’m good, as you’ll read in the entry today. Technically I didn’t fully pass but I did sort of pass, does that make sense? They didn’t want to do another u/s like they did 6 months ago so all is good.
I’ll try to throw those boob posts in when I can. Which reminds me that I got this poster catalog today and it had quite the boob poster in it, I’ll have to find it online so I can write something funny about it I think we need something funny tomorrow and drop this serious stuff (although the smooshing of ones boob beyond belief does have a funny element to it, i think).
Comment by colette — October 10, 2007 @ 5:07 pm