Many women are afraid of their first mammogram, but there is no need to worry. By taking a few minutes each day for a week preceding the exam and doing the following practice exercises, you will be totally prepared for the test, and best of all, you can do these simple practice exercises right in your home.
EXERCISE 1:
Open your refrigerator door and insert one breast between the door and the main box. Have one of your strongest friends slam the door shut as hard as possible and lean on the door for good measure. Hold that position for five seconds. Repeat again in case the first time wasn't effective enough.
EXERCISE 2:
Visit your garage at 3 AM when the temperature of the cement floor is just perfect. Take off all your clothes and lie comfortably on the floor with one breast wedged under the rear tire of the car. Ask a friend to slowly back the car up until your breast is sufficiently flattened and chilled. Turn over and repeat for the other breast.
EXERCISE 3:
Freeze two metal bookends overnight. Strip to the waist. Invite a stranger into the room. Press the bookends against one of your breasts. Smash the bookends together as hard as you can. Set an appointment with the stranger to meet next year and do it again.
You are now properly prepared.
2007-12-11 12:25:13 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
That's exactly what it feels like...all 3!
2007-12-11 12:28:55 · answer #1 · answered by Southern Comfort 6 · 7⤊ 0⤋
I am not a senior (44) but I get mine done yearly. I had a great aunt that lost both her breasts to cancer years ago (I think she was in her 60s, but I'm not sure)...but that is not considered a 'family history'. For it to be considered 'running in the family' you have to have several first-degree relatives that have it. I was diagnosed with stage 0 DCIS (breast cancer) this past August. My mammogram is what caught it, as it was too small to feel. I had a lumpectomy, 6-1/2 wks of radiation, and will start 5 yrs of hormone therapy after the first of the year. I'm a BIG advocate of regular mammograms. My baseline was done at age 38 because of having had a relative that had it (my doc chose to have it done before I hit 40...then from 40 onward it was done once a year). For the next couple of years, I'll be checked every 6 mos. If I remain cancer-free, I'll go back to having it done once a year.
2016-04-08 21:46:27 · answer #2 · answered by April 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What a hoot! Hey, Pat.moor! It's thanks for the mammaries!
Yes, when you're smaller, they squeeze and squeeze, trying to get something into the grip of those plates, usually ending with a big section of pectoral muscle. I had a funny experience at my last mammogram. The nurse gave me these little round band-aids, all Barbie pink and purple, with a little metal bead on them, which I had to stick on my nips. She said they were to make the X-Ray easier to read. I said that it made me feel like a stripper and suggested tassles. She said she had never heard that response before. Really? Am I the only one? I thought it was so funny.
2007-12-11 13:54:33 · answer #3 · answered by Snow Globe 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
^_^
You made me laugh. This is what they're like though. I think however that women with smaller breasts tend to have more pain. The one I had they just kept squishing my boob, asking if it hurt, and giving me funny looks when I said no.
2007-12-11 12:34:37 · answer #4 · answered by anw122 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Back in the good old days women got weekly preparations on laundry day -- they even joked about "getting your teat caught in a wringer".
2007-12-12 01:25:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Suzie s , that was so funny ,was about to go to bed ,read that and nearly fell off the chair, you are so funny ,got any more like that ,i give you a star , no all the stars , peeing myself laughing here ,....
2007-12-11 12:51:21 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No thanks for the memories. Ha ha. I hear there is a new one where you lay on a table and they just hang down thru holes and then are xrayed that way. Wonder if they have it around here yet. Hate the squish squish one.LOL
2007-12-11 12:40:08 · answer #7 · answered by Aloha_Ann 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Doesn't it get on your ****!( the stars or asterisks indicate a rather lower class word for a small bird)
2007-12-11 15:48:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Oh My!! That is too true and too funny!! Where do you come up with this hysterical stuff!!!
I think this might be your best yet!! Picture me...all teeth!! Horse laughing!!! Heee Heee!
2007-12-11 12:42:30 · answer #9 · answered by Meeshmai 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
If you keep this up I am going to hurl my dinner from laughing so hard. Okay, another star, too funny even if it is basically true. My sister told me, neener, neener,neener, so there girls!
2007-12-11 14:27:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋