Five Things Make a Post

[rolanni]

1. 'Way too much excitement at the day-job. You don't want to know. No, trust me: you don't.

2. Why can't the device used to take mammograms have rounded edges? Why can't it be soft? Why does it have to be so Square, Metallic, and Machinely? And I'm not even gonna ask why it has to squish...

3. It snowed today, just a little, but enough to let us know that it could, if it really wanted to.

4. That's a wrap on the first section. Go, me.

5. Tired now.


Progress on Mouse and Dragon

44000 / 100000

Comments

[shana.livejournal.com]

2. Arrgh! on the mammogram. Any day when they put your tits into a vise is not a good day.

4. Go you!

Gentle *hugs*. I hope tomorrow is a better day.

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

2. Want to bet that a man designed it?

44K? WOW! And the words just keep piling up. A shower here, a flurry there, some spit and polish up on the high ridges... YEAH!

[baggette.livejournal.com]

........if they designed a similar machine to examine testicular tissue, I would be satisfied
....since they have not.....OUCH! gawddammit!
I get to do that twice a year, with a "special view" thrown in just for giggles......not mine...but somebody's

[baggette.livejournal.com]

>.....And WHY can't it be WARM?

[growlycub.livejournal.com]

I just had a mammogram last week, and not just any old kind, no, I'm special, I got the 'diagnostic' kind; lots of extra views, lots of squishing involved, ouch! And now I get to wait for 2 weeks until they make up their mind if I need further testing.

I hope your results come back clear and soon!

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

I got to have the extra treatment a couple years ago, which was very worrisome. Hope your results are fortunate and arrive quickly. And that they take you off the list for future special treatment.

go digital

[(Anonymous)]

If your mamogram center has the new digital machine it doesn't squish so bad. In fact very little pain. And most of the pain comes from an incompetent tech.

Re: go digital

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

'fraid there's nothing like that at Maine General, Waterville. The last time I'd read about a new protocol for taking mammograms -- I think it was ultrasound -- and asked about it, the tech laughed and said, "Wouldn't that be nice?"

Re: go digital

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe when we get a female president...

Cathy C

[(Anonymous)]

The mammogram machine has to be annoying in order to succeed in taking your mind off the day job!

[zola.livejournal.com]

Arghh...

One time they need to do a test so they put some radioactive dye into the ducts. That was no problem, the problem was when I started to faint while clamped into the machine...

It's been enough to put me off another mammogram for years.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

It's been enough to put me off another mammogram for years.

I can certainly see that, but I'm guessing radioactive dye is a Specialty Item; I haven't myself seen it deployed, or even heard it suggested (Note to whichever Ghod of Misrule may be reading along -- this is not an appeal for a More Interesting Outpatient Experience). And mammograms, while a pain, really are kind of a useful tool. My grandmother could've survived her breast cancer, if she'd gone to the doctor when she found the lump, instead of hiding it...

[grassrose.livejournal.com]

One of the few advantages to being pudgy and squishy is that my baseline mammogram wasn't a big deal. True, I wasn't GOING anywhere, but the technician was great, and nothing got squeezed to the point of pain. In fact, she took a look at the initial pics and said, "I see something here that I think is just a wrinkle from the way it's placed. Let's take one more pic and possibly avoid a lot of drama." So she pushed me around a little, took one more pic, was right, and I wasn't called back for more fun and games. BLESS the good, caring med techs!

Mammograms

[(Anonymous)]

I just got a digital one. Plates were clear plastic and the clamp let go as soon as it was done taking the picture (without the tech having to do anything).

I get to do another in 3 months.

Digital is worth the extra drive.

Re: Mammograms

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Digital is worth the extra drive.

To Massachusetts? Probably not.

I get to do another in 3 months.

Urk. Good luck with that.

Re: Mammograms

[(Anonymous)]

Maine is *finally* catching up. Digital is available at the Mercy locations in Portland, Waterville, and Windham: at several Central Maine Medical Center locations including Lewiston: and at Parkview Adventist in Brunswick. Maybe other places, too; those are just the ones I can quickly come up with.

I don't know where your insurer will let you go, but hopefully everything will come back OK and you'll have a year to work on it.

Re: Mammograms

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

(Not driving for hours for the payoff of a mammogram, even a relatively "nice" one, but that's just me). However -- there's a Mercy Hospital in Waterville?

Is bewildered, and so calls MaineGeneral Medical Center Waterville Campus (Thayer- Hospital-that-was), where Rachel assures me that all of their mammogram machines are digital, so I'm b*tching about the Good Stuff, ingrate that I am.