Red silk kimono
Glass plates stand at the ready
The squishing begins
Went in for my annual mammogram/ultrasound this week. I’ve been a client at the same radiology clinic for years. The staff there is wonderful. They use heating pads to warm the glass plates, offer patients silk kimonos to cover up, have warm wet wipes to remove u/s gel, and will bring your shoes to you if you forget them in the exam room.
Several years ago, a routine ultrasound discovered a small lump. A large-bore biopsy was performed and found to be benign. To help keep tabs on the lump, the surgeon inserted a marker. All this time I thought that it was the shape and size of a large BB. I found out during this recent exam the marker is actually shaped like the looped cancer ribbon. Appropriate, don’t you agree?
Have you had your mammogram yet?
* Haiku Friday is hosted by Lou at LouCeeL.
Thin spiral notebook 
I’m due for my yearly in about a month! I wish I was offered a kimono…
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I want to go to your mamo place! Sounds dreamy. Well as much as getting your boobs squished sounds dreamy 🙂
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That is appropriate and sort of poetic.
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I’m going in next week!
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That sounds like a really wonderful clinic … warm and accommodating instead of the typical cold and clinical place. I’m making a note to self – schedule a mammogram!
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Tara I love that clinic. If all would be like that and like you said offer less invasive maybe more women would do it.
Hugs!!
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I love the pink ribbon marker! That’s… well, wonderful. It makes me tear up a bit.
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I can’t help but think there must be a better way, a more gentle way, to do that than smashing a woman’s boobs between two glass plates. Just the thought of that makes me all squiggly.
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That’s why I also have the ultrasound done, which is much less uncomfortable, and coupled with a mammogram is far more accurate in cancer detection. But, because of insurance restrictions, an ultrasound is not covered unless I have the mammogram first. The technician told me MRIs are becoming more common too. I wonder if women had the choice of the less painful screening, would more of them be checked for cancer?
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