It's been a funny week of sorts - last week saw us in Central TV with Think Pink, Nat was the first to see it and told us not to watch it as we looked pasty faced, AND we looked like we'd been sprized into the sofa and needed a can opener to get us out - as you can see, we are our own critics...we've never laughed so much ever! Annes new worker starts on the farm on Monday so that will free her up a little, and I have a wee surgery next week, so that will give me chance to make phone calls next week!! Yesterday saw me have my first mammogram and without a word of a lie I was crapping myself to put it politely. On Monday however we went to see Annette - the star of our movie, and she was having an awful day as she was in alot of pain as her tumors were pressing on her spine, to say it was a downer day after that would be an understatement. Nats and I left feeling ssssooooo helpless. Yesterday prior to the mammogram, I was thinking of how everyone told me how painful it would be - yes, even those who had never had one - it was the quietest I'd ever been EVER EVER EVER in the whole world honest!! As I was sat in the changing rooms at the new fancy Hamilton Imaging Centre, I began to think of Annette and her daily struggle and thought, just put your big girl panites on and deal with it. So with the sense of humour that the 3 of us have, I began to think of the funny things we've experienced over think pink - then the radiolodist went to get a gown to cover me up and I had to giggle because she was sooooo concerned to cover me up, yet second later, I was flashing her an eyeful!
Anyway, for those of you putting it off - IT DID NOT HURT!! I kept thinking any minute now, any minute now, any minute now - and then I thought, bloody hell, the scaremongerers amongst us could actually put someone off having a mammogram when it depends on your pain threshold how the rest of your life "COULD" pan out. It really wasn't painful at all.
You know, when I was expecting my first baby, the midwife in the UK asked me about my birth plan and I said I was going to give birth, it was going to bloody hurt then I would worry about my child for the rest of it's life, she told me it was the most realistic one she had ever heard.....
So for those of you putting off going for a mammogram, it may hurt a little, but it will sure take away that worry, and if you saw Annette writhing in agony on Monday morning like we did, squishy boobs for a few seconds is really the least of our worries.....So what are you waiting for????? I think a trip to La More is coming on as a bravery award........
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