Mammogram

To Frank......was that comment sarcastic or just what you thought was funny????? If you've ever had a mammogram, which apparently you have not (and you better believe that men too get breast cancer), you'd not make a joke about it. Having a mammo is no fun, it normally hurts, a lot, and the scare of having your breast crushed under a heavy machine while you have a pacemaker and leads to worry about is not anything to make light of.

Marilyn

10 Comments

Digital mamo's

by janetinak - 2010-06-03 04:06:08

last couple of years I have had the good luck to have my provider (usual one) go to the digital mammo's & altho the squeeze still happens as per Caroly's comment, it seems faster & they let you out of the press faster. And no sitting around to see if it has to be done again. Maybe you should see if any hospitals in your area do that kind of mamo. And I am not small either so think it might help with the "discomfort".Oh, and many insurances do not want to pay for the small extra charge but worth it if you can afford it.

Janet

Amen Carolyn G....

by qwerty - 2010-06-03 04:06:17

Life would be boring without a little pun fun. Thanks, Frank, for the humor in a "pressing" situation!


Cherell

digital

by Tracey_E - 2010-06-03 06:06:02

Amen on the digital equipment!!! So much faster and easier. My insurance hasn't given me a problem about paying for it.

Too bad...

by heartu - 2010-06-03 10:06:49

Too bad the guys don't get their prostates checked the same way we get out breasts checked. Who'd be screaming then!

Amen to heartu ~ ~

by Carolyn65 - 2010-06-03 11:06:20

We Ladies are Blessed with having those Babies and mammograms, plus other lil' 'fun' thingees. Was this all because of the 'apple' eaten in biblical times by Adam & Eve? Shame on them ~ ~ ~ LOL ~

Yes, to some, the mammos are uncomfortable, including myself who was Blessed to be more than X-large (thanx G-Ma for all your genetics!). To make an uncomfortable and sometimes painful situation better, I have to watch the mammo in progress and turn it into a 'slow motion' process of 'funnies' for my once a year 'grand parade' in the fashion gown they furnish!

The mammo x-ray machine takes a perfectly normal breast, be it small or xx-large, turns it into what appears to be a thin, deli slice of 'cheese' or 'bologna' with a machine press, then you have to attempt to commit suicide in holding your breath while the techie walks to another area, then takes the x-ray. At her own pace, the techie then tells you to 'breathe'. IF you are still alive, you can gasp for air, as the machine lets go of your bodily part, so that you can continue the process of turning both breasts into the 'cheese/ bologna' shapes (sides, tops, bottoms), over and over and still gasping for air in between the x-rays.

Then you have to sit in your fashion gown, usually frayed and hanging wide open, until the techie looks at the x-rays to make sure they all 'took'. IF they did not, guess what? THE 'press' and your boobs do re-takes!

How much more fun should a female have? And you want "what'? ~ ~

This is just one more 'fun' adventure in the life of being Blessed to be a female, but ALL well worth it to prevent cancer of the breasts. Everyone is urged and should be mandated to have a mammo once per year every year.

Bear Hugs to All,
Carolyn G. in TEXAS ~ What a beautiful Day in Texas ~

pun

by Tracey_E - 2010-06-03 12:06:14

Frank was pointing out the unintentional pun I made in my comment, that's all. Frank is one of the more empathetic guys here, he'd never intentionally insult.

Love Our Frank ~ ~

by Carolyn65 - 2010-06-03 12:06:16

I loved that 'pun' you made Frank, as referred to in a previous 'comment'. Without your whimsical, funny approach to matters, this PM Club site would not be the same without you.

The 'funnies', 'puns', jokes, etc. 'commented/posted' by PM Club members are better than tons of meds the Dr's. can distribute ~ A laugh a day, keeps the Dr. away, oh, or was that an 'apple a day'? Both ~ ~

PM members like Frank, please keep 'them' comin' ~

Bear Hugs to All,
Carolyn G. in TEXAS ~ Blundering Rains Last Nite ~

all he said was

by walkerd - 2010-06-04 10:06:51

tracey said if its not pressing could wait.
and Frank said he thought all mammograms where pressing. whoopee lets not start a fight over something that is so trivial and cute. Frank is one of the most caring knowlgeable people on here that has helped probably ever newbie on here that had a teck question.
forgive the spelling this am

dave

Mammograms

by lady4law - 2010-06-04 12:06:04

I am not sure what Frank said, but I wish I could still have mammos, as painful as we all know they can be. One of those painful encounters saved my life almost 3 years ago, when it discovered I was 3rd stage Breast Cancer.

If you think the mammos hurt, it was a walk in the park compared to what I have been going thru (10+surgeries) in the last 3 years.

My darn PM was in the way for both my reconstruction and radiation so had to be relocated - 6 leads criss-crossing my chest, and up against my ribs. On top of those wires are my implants. I am in constant pain.

So far I have posted on here and a number of other sites, and as of today, have still not found another woman who had BC that also has a PM.

Ultrasound instead.....

by Bionic Beat - 2010-06-06 04:06:29

I've been having ultrasounds done instead of mammos for the last few years.

It's so silly that the local Cancer Centre won't do an ultrasound BEFORE the mammo but it's 'protocol'.

They will only do an ultrasound WHEN they find something on the mammo.

So, I go to a specialist Ultrasound clinic, outside of the hospital setting.....Dr. Goldfinger, yep, that's the name...... is reknown for breast ultrasounds.

My last mammo, the techie pinched me soooo hard that I had purple boobies for weeks!!

My GP said he'd only seen such bruising on a woman who had a straight line hit during a baseball game!!

Between my GP and myself, we had the techie fired.

I still commiserate, the ultrasound isn't as bad but takes longer.....pick your poison, I guess.


Best wishes,

Bionic Beat

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