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Usually I get a nice dinner before someone manhandles my breasts like that.

So yesterday was the mammogram fun.

I was kind of dreading it. The worst part was worrying about what they might find - which was absolutely, positively nothing, thank god. They think I just have cystic breasts (how's that for TMI?) and anything we've felt was simply hormonal. I've got a follow-up mammo in six months, just to be safe, and then yearly from then on.

In the end, the worst part of the whole thing was the waiting room - filled to the brim with issues of magazines like Redbook and Health with articles like, "So you've got breast cancer, now what?" and "How breast cancer turned my world upside down" and "How health insurance is failing women with breast cancer".

Because sitting there, waiting with a brain filled with "what ifs", isn't torture enough? WTF?

For those of you who haven't had a mammo yet, it's not really painful at all. I read somewhere to take some Motrin before to help with the discomfort, but at one point I actually said to her, "That's the worst you've got? Pshaw. Bring it on, woman." She laughed - and then stepped on the little squeezer and really smooshed things and then I kind of regretted saying that.

But in the end? Not nearly as bad as I was expecting, glad it's over, relieved that they didn't find anything. One more thing to cross off the mental list of things to worry about.

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So happy to hear all is clear.
I've never gone...but that time is so close down the road.

Posted by Stacy | December 7, 2007 2:38 PM

Congrats! What a weight lifted off of your shoulders. I had one a year ago and it wasn't bad, slight discomfort but that's it.

Posted by divrchk | December 7, 2007 4:55 PM

So glad all is well.
And I am still reeling how much our lives have changed...how our lives used to focus so much on dysfunctional relationships with exes...and now we post about kids and mammograms.

Holy crap...we're adults, girl. How messed up is THAT???

I say tonight you do up your hair in pigtails and make chocolate milk and s'mores...anything to feel like a kid again. Sometimes I forget how much fun being a kid was.

Again...glad you're ok...now go squeeze Sammy and put up the pigtails (and put on the overalls, although it's closer to pajama time by now!).

Posted by Allie | December 7, 2007 5:56 PM

I had one done earlier this year for pretty much the same reasons - lumpies in the breasties, particularly a newer one that showed up after I stopped breastfeeding my daughter. I and they could feel it but they could not see the stupid thing on an u/s. Nothing out of the ordinary cropped up with the mammo either, so I was cleared. Even though they didn't set me up for a follow up, I plan on asking about going yearly anyway.

I agree with you - it was quite nerve-wracking to sit in the waiting room, wondering "what if??". I was scared half to death and had a horrible time trying to control my nerves in the little dressing rooms while I waited.

I am glad yours turned out to be nothing too!

Posted by niki | December 7, 2007 6:17 PM

Cystic breasts are very common and I can totally understand and relate what you went through; I went through a similar experience a few years ago minus the mammo, they just did an ultrasound. I'm glad that everything worked out for you! :)

Posted by cindy | December 7, 2007 7:33 PM

That's good news!! I'm so glad! But BOO on the magazines in the waiting room! That's crazy!

Shari

Posted by Shari | December 8, 2007 4:21 AM

I can understand wanting to inform people on living with cancer but it doesn't make sense to fill a room full of magazines with this stuff when that room has vistor after vistor in there worried about getting that news.... This is why "Highlights" is a must in a waiting room and nothing else. Its mindless, fun things to do while you wait. Glad to hear that it was nothing and everything is ok!!

Posted by Darren | December 8, 2007 5:10 PM
 

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