got my mammogram monday, gave up diet coke tuesday after the formaldehyde
post, decided on fiberglass replacement windows instead of vinyl, got a call
from the mammogramers this am to come back in for more views to investigate a
"calcification" ( oh sure, they are just trying to break the bad news
gradually/gently/in person), got the repeats done, this time with the special
magnifying smasher, then done again, then the doc comes in to say it looks
like tiny calcifications in very veeeeeerrrrry small cyst and he would not
worry. His 25 years of experience - some at NIH - was very reassuring.

but, i plan anyway to search the archieves - what were those weird foods
Kathy D is now consuming?

Discussing cancers in general, his comments were that 25 yrs ago it was
practically unheard of for 30-40 yr olds to come in with solid tumors - now
it "happens all the time", and he would like to see more emphasis on
prevention.

One of the first things he could do toward prevention of advanced breast
cancers, so that more women would get screened and more often, is to improve
the breast imaging method so that we can get rid of that barbaric
squish-o-matic mashogramer.

Deborah Tobin
RN BSN IBCLC LCCE
Springfield, Virginia USA
In the suburbs outside the Washington DC beltway

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