Get your girls checked

 

Update.   There is a problem.  I have to go in for more tests.  I keep telling myself it's nothing.

I have an appointment this morning for a mammogram  I am not looking forward to it, but I am not dreading it ( the same cannot be said for some of the other "fun" exams that women need to have done)

I have been having them every year since I was 48  I should have started when I was 40.  My mother developed breast cancer in her 70's and they caught it early enough so she just needed a lumpectomy and radiation.

The reason I went is that I ran into a friend on the subway, who causally told me that she was better and that they had gotten all the cancer. alarm bells went off in my head and I scheduled a mammo.  They found "something" and that something was getting ready to turn.  I saw her on the subway a few weeks after my surgery and told her she saved my life.  I stopped riding the subway a while after that and never ran into her again.  So, wherever you are Shari, thank you,

I have had the "the doctor needs to see you" appointment three times.   I have had three biopsies ( those FREAKING HURT) and two lumpectomies. Both were on the verge of becoming cancerous and I had a mammo every six months for two years after each surgery.

I am on top of it.  

If you are reading this- and you ARE- please get your "girls" checked ( I call mine "the twins") If you have a friend who hasn't gone , encourage them to do it. It is uncomfortable, sure I am a particularly "voluptuous" girl and  getting my tatas flattened is not my idea of a good time. I am fairly short and sometimes standing in one position is hard for me, but it's worth it.

I generally get my mammo in April.  I am reminded by T.S. Eliot that "April is the Cruelest month"  so I go. Today was the earliest convenient  appointment. I'll let you all know how it goes.