Re: I thought I was dying

On Aug 3, 4:55 pm, "Granby" <s...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
How can you not mind a mammogram!! Like laying down in a drive way and
letting someone back over your boob and sitting there and saying "Take a
deep breath". What's not to love.<bastXXXe...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Lesley <LMadi...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Last week my GP sent me one of those letters about their upgrading
their computer system and as they haven't seen me for a while if I
don't reply they'll assume I don't want to be on their books anymore
(They did once send me a letter that actually read "Dear Ms Madigan,
According to our records you have not contacted this practice since
2001, if you have moved from the area or died would you please advise
us of this fact"

Wow.

(I was going to say more, but I think "wow" says enough.)

I might be the only woman in the world who is not at all bothered by
mammograms. Not to say I enjoy them or anything. :) But I don't find
them in the least bit painful. I remember the first time I had one, I
had prepared myself psychologically for agony, after all I'd heard
about them. And it was nothing! Just a minor inconvenience.

Here's a related amusing quip:

Who ever thought up the word "mammogram"? Every time I hear it, I
think I'm supposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to
someone. -- Jan King

I have no idea who Jan King is, but I'd like to!

--
Joyce ^..^

(To email me, remove the X's from my user name.)

I am licensed to do mammos as well as my general registry.
I am forced to have one myself because of my history of my
sister, no other reason. I can relate to the discomfort of other
women and I have an unusually high pain tolerance level. I
prefer the out-and-out visual barf-level work in ERs rather
than the quiet drama of up-close and personal mammo work
as I don't like drama that can sometimes occur in mammoland
(that dept.) All I had to do in ERs was "get my shot(s)" and then
get the hell out of the way, free to leave the scene of whatever
excitement is going on. Not so mammos....I always hated to
have the patient wait if something crucial was being viewed by
my radiologist there (mammos take much longer to process
and be viewed by doctors, by federal law, than plain films as
in ER work I did) and watch the woman get upset and verbal
as if *I* was the final word on her condition. Too personal for
me, thank you very much. At least the ER patients, no matter
how drunk or OD'd, understood that I was only a cog in a
much bigger medical machinery working on them.
Many female techs hate ER work and *love* (popular word)
mammo work...clean, no mess physically, no excited docs
breathing down your neck, no screaming relatives begging you
for details when you go down the hall....give me that instead
of the worried women any day. I am sorry Kili that I mistook
your medical issues for something else. My bad. Please forgive.
But what I said goes anyway about you. Saw your pics of
get together.. You and DH are goodlooking pair.
.