On Friday I got a letter. By now you all know how I love to receive letters.
This one was from my local health Centre. It was a reminder that it was time to have a routine test.
Yes the time has come round again to have THAT test. Let me just say it is probably the one we women most dislike – a smear test. The fact that it can save lives does little about how we feel about it. It is silly you know as it only takes a few minutes. Nowadays we are no longer asked to put our legs up in stirrups and told to relax as a doctor (in the past it was usually a man with a gruff manner) approached with a hunk of cold steel! You get the picture.
I always found the Mammogram test just as uncomfortable as a smear test. It is like having a Boob squashed in a vice first horizontally, and then vertically. It was made worse when I realised that nowadays it is the only time someone will ask me to appear topless on film.
Today I had to smile: “Why”? I hear you ask. Well they have found a test for the men in our lives. It only takes a minute and it could save your life, no need to be squeamish…..
6 comments:
HA! Ouch.
Them blokes always have the prostate checks though. According to Billy Connolly, even those tests can be quite enjoyable if you're in the right frame of mind. Where's the justice?!
I think most men would rather just die.
'It was made worse when I realised that nowadays it is the only time someone will ask me to appear topless on film.' - Brilliant :-)
@K8 "Them blokes always have the prostate checks" - I sincerely hope so. If they don't not alone do they suffer but all their loved ones do along with them.
@marty, see above.
@conortje, it might be brilliant but it is true!
Grannymar,
"It is the only time someone will ask me to appear topless"
I know exactly what you mean. I went to Mardi Gras this year and they were throwing me beads to put my top back ON !!!
@Nancy lol. I blame gravity, everything has gone south!!
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