Re: OT Re: PING: JohnP
- From: Pam K <my2pugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 21 May 2008 16:38:32 -0700
In article <89q534d672uvcjjj490seucuea9k3p33u9@xxxxxxx>, Jr@Ease says...
Once Upon a Midnight Dreary, While Mary Pondered, Weak and Weary, Over
Many a Quaint and Curious Forgotten Post, s/he wrote:
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Here, it's up to the individual I think. Jan has had one mammogram in
her entire life and wild horses couldn't drag her back for another
one. She'll be a lot more amenable to annual checks when this
recently announced new, less brutal technology becomes general.
It's only brutal if the technician isn't any good. I can't say that I
enjoy them, but they aren't painful, at least as long as Jayne the
technician still works where I go.
My wife has worked for an OB/GYN since, ...hell, '79. (Has it been
that long?) has had mammograms many times herself, and can't seem to
understand the seemingly constant complaints from women that they
hurt, and that they won't get them as often as they should becuase
they are painful. At least that's what she tells me. I can't give an
informed opinion, obviously, but it seems to me that breast cancer is
a very big deal, has a significant impact not only on those that die
from it, but on the survivors, and the very minor inconvenience of
having their breasts squeezed on a cold plate seems to pale in
comparison to the alternative. Even if it is painful.
Mastectomies I hear, are painful too, and permanent.
John P - sympathetic but perplexed.
Mique - Excuse me? Painful? I don't know what new, less brutal technology is
recently announced, but let me tell you - after having breast cancer last year,
being the daughter of a woman who had BC 17+ years ago, knowing women who have
died from BC (and 40K + die in the US every year from BC), painful is the least
of my worries.
That said, I've had mammos since I was 40 and none of them hurt. hell, the dogs
jumping up on me hurt more.
Here in the US, insurance must cover mammos annually for women over 40. Medicare
covers them as well. For those who do not have insurance & are not covered by
Medicaid, there are programs that will pay for said mammos.
Any woman that uses 'pain' as an excuse for not getting a mammogram is looking
for an excuse. Again over 40K women in the US die EVERY YEAR from breast
cancer. 40K!
Mammograms aren't perfect, they don't find every cancer, but it found mine.
Give me a mammogram over surgery and radiation any day. Ask any woman who has
been through it - what's worse: the cancer or the mammogram.
Get her in there for one. Seriously. It's like not having a colonoscopy because
it's 'uncomfortable'.
Very, very, very sore subject with me.
Thank you Mary and John P for your sensible comments.
I now return you to your regular programming.
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Pam K
saying eff off to cancer since 2007
my2pugs@xxxxxxxxx
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