Comments on: My not-quite-annual check-up (once every 7 years, need it or not)

By: Marguerite

Marguerite — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:08:03 +0000

With the newer digital mammogram machines the procedure is more bothersome than painful.

It really isn’t something to let slide. Breast cancer is common and it is curable if caught early like only a mammogram can do.

I’m sure you know this.

Still, during a busy day/week/year it’s easy to think “If I have breast cancer, I don’t want to know it/can’t deal with it now.”

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:02:39 +0000

My mammogram was good too, it was actually relaxing, since the kids were with someone else. A colonoscopy…well, I hate that thought, but I am only 44! I have six years yet.

By: Helen Baldwin

Helen Baldwin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:24:19 +0000

I can relate! I HATE going to the doctor’s and have managed to avoid it because I haven’t been sick, either. And with insufficient insurance and limited funds (to put it mildly), it’s quite easy to keep it out of what little of my mind is left.

By: Esther

Esther — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:45:39 +0000

We women aren’t the only chickens when it comes to medical appointments. Last week my oldest brother was taken by ambulance to 2 different hospitals. On the first trip, he told the driver this was his “first and last time inside of an ambulance”. When they came back a few hours later to transfer him to a larger hospital 90 miles away, he again had his “first and last time….”. Nor was he a good patient after having surgery – pulling plugs and throwing them; reaching behind to cover his backside even though the nurse told him to use 2 hands on the walker – not letting the nurse see his private parts, even after she told him she’d been a nurse for years and had seen everything – he said to his son, brother, and me: “I told her she hadn’t seen mine, and wasn’t going to!” See, it’s not just women who don’t like the whole idea of having some of these procedures done – modesty just isn’t part of the deal!

By: Krys

Krys — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:42:10 +0000

I can’t stand doctors!! They’ve been telling me to get a mammogram for 5 years now & every year when I go for my yearly they ask me if I’ve gotten it yet… I just can’t bring myself to do it!! & they even told me of a place that does them for free!! I still haven’t gone!
Keep us posted if you do go!

By: marmee

marmee — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:00:24 +0000

Tell the “girls” not to worry, it’s not a big deal. My girlies’ doctor place is pleasant, modern and the lighting was really low. These picture taking ladies really know what they are doing and you already know the rest of this lecture. I was nervous for my first ever appointment and, after it was all done, walked out on cloud nine after it hit me that it was just a little smoochy, not even uncomfortable, like I’ve heard it could be. Make the appointment today and get it over with already!!!

By: Lynne

Lynne — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:41:33 +0000

When you find out where the mamogram place is… let me know. I’ve been looking for it going on 5 years myself… We’re so good at taking care of everyone else…

By: MissKris

MissKris — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:01:18 +0000

If it’s any comsolation, I’ve had mammograms and a colonoscopy…plus an endoscopy…and none of them are that bad. On the first one The Girls get squished. On the other two you get sent out so far into LaLa Land they could chop off your head and you could care less. In other words…nothing to dread even tho they’re nothing to really look forward to, either. Also, after a local cable access show we saw several years ago, WHY it inspired Dear Hubby to call them this I dunno, but my ‘girls’ are referred to around here as “Tiki Hump Humps’. Ahem. And after all the health issues and hospital visits I had last year I don’t think I have a modest bone left in my body.