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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 tent presented to me. At