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The Chamber of Compression and Size "Elephant"

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My girlfriend shared with me a comparison she recently read of, that likened the Mammogram Experience to running your boob over with a car.    Although I imagine people do have some discomfort, today, after my second-annual “Breast sandwiching,” I still feel fine.   Today, the first attendant I met led me to a changing room. He went in one room, “Looks like we’re out of gowns,” he said.   He went in another room, “We’re out here too.” I started to wonder how prepared they were for incoming patients, when, “Here we go.” I closed the door and lifted the gown to put it on. It was the largest, most humongous, mongo-spacious gown I’d ever  seen. I could fit my entire family in it…after a Thanksgiving dinner. They weren’t out of gowns in those other rooms; they were out of size “Elephant” gowns. My well-meaning attendant had done his best to be discreet, but the proof of his opinion of my size versus their standard garments was the flowing, flowered te...