Ladies. This is Worrying.

**Trek420** · 10-19-2006, 05:17 AM

congrats margo49 and her mono-tit on 10 years and counting...here's to many many many more C-free years.

Trek, granddaughter of a bc survivor, lost an aunt, cousin, grandfather to cancer and most recently my father to prostate cancer.

I recall my dad musing what might have caused it, he had smoked lightly but quit before or shortly after I was born, I never saw him smoke.

He and my mom had almost an ultimate healthy lifestyle. Our joke was that if they had chickens and a cow they would be self sufficient. Lots of time outdoors and activity, the remaining 3 acres of their orriginal farm they raised everything organic from asparagus to zuchini.

Ultimately I guess you make your best choices from diet, health information based on the info we have and to me it's not about living forever because we don't get out of this alive. It's about quality of life while I'm here, being able to do what I want to do, having the strength to open the peanut butter jar ;-)

In Dads case he was 83 when he died, he lived a good long and very productive life and brought joy and laughter to many. If any of you had met him up to maybe a few months before the end you would not have guessed he was ill, or that he was in his 80s. He was chopping wood and gardening right up to shortly before the end.

That's why I do these healthy things, I enjoy it and want to be able to keep doing it for a long time but one can't anticipate everything.

**Geonz** · 10-19-2006, 05:27 AM

Okay, so I read through this thread and am feeling inspired by the courage and concerned about the medical field ... and I haven't had much tea yet, so when I clicked back to the big screen with all the posts... I swear that thread said "steering with your t*ts,"... which of course would be possible if you were aero enough...

**KnottedYet** · 10-19-2006, 05:39 AM

Originally Posted by Trek420

congrats margo49 and her mono-tit on 10 years and counting...here's to many many many more C-free years.

Trek, granddaughter of a bc survivor, lost an aunt, cousin, grandfather and father to cancer.

Have you been checked for the HRCA gene? Dang, I don't think I'm remembering the name right, but it's the genetic marker for a tendency for linked breast and ovarian cancer. And it's high in your ethnic demographic.

Geonz - would this count as steering with your t*ts?
http://www.terrybicycles.com/detail....tem_no=7333000

**Trek420** · 10-19-2006, 05:45 AM

KnottedYet "Have you been checked for the HRCA gene? Dang, I don't think I'm remembering the name right, but it's the genetic marker for a tendency for linked breast and ovarian cancer. And it's high in your ethnic demographic."

no, guess I should do that too.

Geonz - would this count as steering with your t*ts?"

thought we were supposed to steer with our hips?

**mimitabby** · 10-19-2006, 06:03 AM

Originally Posted by Trek420

KnottedYet "Have you been checked for the HRCA gene? Dang, I don't think I'm remembering the name right, but it's the genetic marker for a tendency for linked breast and ovarian cancer. And it's high in your ethnic demographic."

no, guess I should do that too.

Geonz - would this count as steering with your t*ts?"

thought we were supposed to steer with our hips?

which ethnic demographic is high for HRCA gene??

My stepfather who is now 80 is a prostate cancer surviver. His two younger brothers who never left Poland both died from prostate cancer. His younger sister died from cancer too. He is one lucky dude.

As for me.. I DETEST mammograms. The incidence of cancer in my family, well, is non-existent. I have had 3 so far, one this year. The whole time I am there I am thinking that they should check for testicular cancer the same way, particularly in the case of the doctors that thought this up. I can't wait until they can do this nasty with MRI's so it isn't such an awful experience.

**KnottedYet** · 10-19-2006, 06:25 AM

mimitabby - sound like you ran into a not-nice radiology dept. I get my mammograms at Edmonds Family Medicine, and they are no trouble at all! Of course, they are a loooooong drive from you, so probably not worth switching to EFM, but you might wanna find a radiology dept near you with good reviews.

Whoops, I got the name of the gene wrong, it's BRCA. Here's a link to Stanford, but if you google you'll find tons of info

http://cancer.stanford.edu/informati...types/herbocs/

It also links with prostate cancer! Hey, I didn't know that.

**Xrayted** · 10-19-2006, 06:56 AM

Uh, yeah mimi... demand more from your mammo tech there. It should be uncomfortable but not painful. Around here, we give them the control and allow them to put on the pressure if they want. We have minimum pressures needed but if they want to be in control, we're all for it. Also, a nice heating pad to warm the unit before plopping down. Also, for those of you still getting the monthly, try to pick a time of the month when they're not so sensitive. It seems like common sense but...
The base line is supposed to be done at age 40. I'm almost 37 and having my first one this coming year. One of my friends is going to do it for me. (Yes, she is a mammo tech

) I've been a training guinea pig for one of the new units, so I'm not totally unfamiliar with it. Just short of getting irradiated. Nothing like having a room full of people staring when you've got your girl pressed in there!

And thanks Denise G!

**mimitabby** · 10-19-2006, 07:14 AM

Oops, sorry gals, i must explain. My "pain" is not so much physical.
It's emotional,psychic. I've been to three different clinics since I was 40 and have not gotten through the exam without crying. I've done pelvics, at least one a year for 36 years, and I have no trouble with these. But for some reason, having my breasts mashed on a table is more than I can deal with.
The only reason i went this year is one of my first cousins just has a mastectomy. the first relative to have cancer in the family. So I was made to promise to go. So i did.

**Dogmama** · 10-21-2006, 03:31 AM

During my last mammogram, the tech got me squeezed in and said "Don't move!" I replied, "Gee, I just had this urge to do jumping jacks..."

**Velobambina** · 10-21-2006, 07:06 AM

Dogmama--That's the right attitude!

I had a cancer scare when I was in my early thirties and ended up having the tumor removed. Thank goodness it was benign. My gyne has insisted on regular mammos since and while I'd rather not get them, better safe than sorry. She's the type of doc who will hold your BCP prescrip renewal hostage until you come in for your annual pap smear!

**margo49** · 10-21-2006, 03:19 PM

Thanx to everyone for the good wishes

**Xrayted** · 10-21-2006, 05:13 PM

Originally Posted by Dogmama

During my last mammogram, the tech got me squeezed in and said "Don't move!" I replied, "Gee, I just had this urge to do jumping jacks..."

Oh, that just hurt me all over! I imagine that when you were done, you wouldn't fit back into your bra quite the same.

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