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What's Going on With my Body?

Here's to the Girls

8/26/2015

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By: Queue Murphy
     Today I got my umpteenth mammogram.  I have had many in my life because when I was 16, they found a lump.  Looking back, I think the lump they found was because I was jumping on my trampoline and kept doing front drops.  My dad took me to a UAW doctor who said I needed surgery (my dad didn't know any better).  They put me under the knife the following week (at a UAW facility) and cut a big two inch hole in one of my girls and took a chunk out.  Needless to say, I still have that scar, decades later - not attractive.  
   Even though I have entered men-o-pause, I  still have to get mammograms every year.  Or should I say mamm-o-grams....I digress.  I still get them every year because I have 'dense' girls.  Isn't that sad - that I have dense girls?  Having dense girls lends to a higher cancer risk.  My blood-relative Aunt, also died of ovarian cancer in her mid-50's, which also adds to risk of breast cancer.  
    Mammograms - for the decades I have been having them, have not improved.  They put your girls in a clamp, press on a foot lever, which then compresses the girls, and compresses and compresses and compresses.  I have always been too afraid to look down to see how squished they get, but I know I can't breath!  They then tell you not to breath (I stopped breathing way before they told me!) - they then give it one more squeeze - OH My Goodness!!!!  Click for the picture, clamp is released, then they tell you to breath again - why they have to tell me to breath again, I don't know.  Then another picture of the same girl...I usually get 3 or 4 of each girl.
    I once asked them who gave them the hardest time.  They said it was definitely the young ones.  They forget to breath and pass out...which then just gave me a visual of a young woman hanging from a clamp, and I grimaced.
     Needless to say, mammograms are one of those necessary evils, so still get them when your doctor tells you to.  Make sure you also do monthly breast exams.  I know many women this has saved, and I know some women who are no longer with us because they didn't observe the change in their girls, OK, their breasts.  However, I am looking forward to the day when they can do it a much less uncomfortable way - like an ultrasound!  
      So here's to the girls!  
2 Comments
Jeannine
8/27/2015 02:03:47 am

I've looked down, it isn't pretty...wished I didn't. I am also hoping that there is a better way soon since my girls ache for days after.

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Queue
9/1/2015 02:23:30 pm

They need to find a better way!

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