I don't have a GP. Problem. But I have a dentist, damnit.
Oh HAI big RAT setting off my neighbor's motion detector lights! You are large, and oddly, Loki missed you completely. Do not live in my garage, please. Gah, need to open that up someday.
I tell you I have this theory. It goes where, you're the one who's not my sister. Cuz mom adopted you from a shoe box full of baby howler monkeys, and never told you cuz it could hurt your delicate baby feelings.
Dawn ,'Selfless'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Sep 17, 2010 7:37:54 pm PDT #24580 of 30001
§ ita § - Sep 17, 2010 7:38:53 pm PDT #24581 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have never had an OB/Gyn. My internist took care of all those things. I hope my new one does that too. It's the same office as my old do-it-all. I hope he has the same practices. I don't want another new doctor. I have enough medical professionals in my life. The ER guys take up a serious chunk of my attention span. Seriously, they're kinda part of my social life.
I think mammos can be wildly uncomfortable, but painful? I hope not.
Okay, call done. God, that was way worth being alert for.
shrift - Sep 17, 2010 7:48:46 pm PDT #24582 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
The grocery store I went to on the way home didn't have gorgonzola. This peeves me because I wanted to make gorgonzola polenta this weekend.
I have been given a relatively clean bill of health by the doctor, aside from the usual problems, but I'm looking askance at the information sheets on some of the new drugs I'll be starting.
Zenkitty - Sep 17, 2010 7:52:38 pm PDT #24583 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
It's possible that I'm freaking out about freaking out, more than pain. Though, my sister said it hurt, using a colorful metaphor.
shrift - Sep 17, 2010 8:00:41 pm PDT #24584 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
It's possible that I'm freaking out about freaking out, more than pain.
In solidarity, there are a couple of things on my To Do list that I am avoiding doing like whoa. If someone yelled at me about them, it probably would make me even less likely to get it done.
t fistbump We'll get it done eventually, right?
Burrell - Sep 17, 2010 8:03:12 pm PDT #24585 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I didn't mean to sound glib, Zen. I am sure there's a range of responses to having a mammo. I can only say it didn't hurt me.
Liese S. - Sep 17, 2010 8:09:58 pm PDT #24586 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I will pipe up and say that I too am on the Scary! side of girly bits stuff. PLUS I get an extra measure of prudishness, and yeah, I don`t have a GP and I don`t have an OB/GYN and I haven`t gotten them done. And I should know better, because I have friends with breast cancer. But I have to say, in the back of my mind I`m all, they can do that freakish nakey airport scan but they can`t work out a noninvasive way to test for this stuff? C`mon, science.
Zenkitty - Sep 17, 2010 8:14:12 pm PDT #24587 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
We'll get it done eventually, right?
Eventually! ... I dunno, I still have things on my To Do list from 1986. This should probably just become my Bucket List, at this point.
I didn't mean to sound glib, Zen. I am sure there's a range of responses to having a mammo. I can only say it didn't hurt me.
Oh, you didn't! I'm glad to have anecdotal evidence that it can not hurt.
they can do that freakish nakey airport scan but they can`t work out a noninvasive way to test for this stuff? C`mon, science.
Technically, this IS the noninvasive way. But I expect to feel rather invaded.
Lee - Sep 17, 2010 8:45:13 pm PDT #24588 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I had an AWESOME second half of my birthday thanks to Juliana and Tom and SA and Consuela.
Then I remembered that I am old and woke up in Atlanta a little after 4:00 am local time.
So now the younguns are off drinking and I am in bed.
Vortex - Sep 17, 2010 9:06:08 pm PDT #24589 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I worry that the amount of valium I'll need to take to not freak out while a giant machine flattens some precious portion of my anatomy is also an amount that will make it difficult for me to remain standing during said procedure.
When I had my mammogram, the boob squishie part didn't really hurt. What hurt was the machine pressing on my sternum for one of the views. If you are endowed, it's not as painful, I understand. (maternal history of breast cancer, had to do a baseline at 35)