Well, here it is… My contribution to the fight against breast cancer.
Maybe I make some people laugh, maybe I don’t.
Maybe I help spread an importent message, maybe I don’t.
My wife says I’m going to get beat up by a lot of pissed off women.
What do you say?
Nice. Catchy. A bit scratchy, but it’ll pass muster once it is taken on as the national boob cancer federation anthem and updated by They Might Be Giants.
The boobs need more bass!
N8 - puttin’ the Boom Boom Boom in Boom Booms since 1985.
Thanks.
Its lovely. I had mine done today. Squished them puppies flat.
How painful is flattening the puppies? I’m trying to think of a comparison guys can understand… Ever been kicked in the pelvic bone? Gall bladder rupture? Strong poke in the eye?
My wife says it would be like making a photocopy of your penis. Not so much painfull as uncomfortable and embarassing.
As guys we have a lot of things easy, except for that certain exam once we’re 40.
“Be sure to use extra lube doc. Say, is that a picture of OWWWWWWWMYGOD”
Also uncomfortable and embarassing but very necessary.
Thanks** Dangerosa**, I hope you get good news.
That is darling! I love it ! You rock, N8.
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Uncomfortable, some women find it actually painful, most just find it - maybe like sitting a little too long with your hamstrings stretched out? Wearing shoes too small - but not to the point of getting blisters…?
The strange thing is the getting you lined up - arm here, relax this shoulder, bend a little here. Then they squish - then you hold your breath while they take the photo. I’ve never been in the right point in my breath cycle when they say “don’t breathe” to do anything other than feel like I’m going to run out of air faster than they can get the picture taken.
Pepper Mill just had hers done – and has a bruise to show for it.
I try to imagine it’s like getting screened for testicular cancer by squishing your scrotum between two plates, but I;m not sure that’s accurate.
Incidentally, I wondered why it was that it was necessary for women to undergo such an annoying exercise. It seemed to me that it ought to be possible to build a CAT-like device for scanning the Unpressed Boob, and that this would be preferable for all sorts of reasons.
It turns out that, not only is it possible, but it’s been done. But the procedure takes on the order of ten times as long and costs about ten times as much. Until costs come down, we’re stuck with the Boob Press.
MRIs are the hot new thing in breast cancer detection - but too expensive to use unless you are going through a diagnosis like Ivylass is right now where they want to get a good image of a known tumor. They are also apparently more difficult to read - more accurate - but doctors aren’t used to looking at that image yet. Diagnostic mammograms are supported through ultrasounds as well (which actually isn’t anymore comfortable than the mammogram - cold goo and someone pressing the scanner down hard on your breast and moving it around).
I had one last week, performed by a female doc. I think I’m in love…
My prostate was slightly enlarged, but the accompnanying PSA was normal.
Mine was a female doc as well, back around the first of the year. I think she had anger issues, either that or was checking for prostate and/or throat cancer.