Annual Squishing

I had my annual squishing today. Those awful uncomfortable moments where they squeeze your boobs between two pieces of heavy duty plexiglass with the power of two f-150’s driving toward each other at 99 miles per hour are your best defense against breast cancer going bad.

As I have lived through my friend Jan’s second breast cancer and my friend Kathi’s second breast cancer I know I want to do anything possible not to have to do that. If that means flopping out a naked one and holding my breath so be it.

I feel lucky I have good insurance so I get the 3-d scan. Good thing since these girls are triple D. I got to look at the scans, not that I know anything, but the tech explained the white dots as calcium and the little marker for the place where I had a needle biopsy 14 years ago.

Thank goodness there are good techs who get us through these squish sessions. I will await the radiologist’s report and pray that it is all good news. Don’t put off getting checked.