Ok, this post is for women only. Women who are 35 and over. Everyone else can either look at another post or go to someone else's blog.
Are they gone?
Well here goes . . .
We have all seen them.
You know what I am talking about.
The cartoons, the jokes about having someone park the family van on one breast. How a mammogram is absolutly awful, painful. Almost as bad as childbirth.
I had my first mammogram yesterday and it was not that bad. It wasn't fun, wasn't really comfortable but really the worst part was all the paperwork.
I have been more much more uncomfortable with my kids squirming in my lap at times.
There isn't a history of breast cancer in my family, so this was just a routine "baseline." All the same, because of mammograms and monthly self exams, it is now uncommon for breast cancer to lead to death.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and so if it is time to get your mammogram done, go call your doctor. Go have it done. It really isn't that painful.
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