Compression Three THIS

[oselle]

You know, I'm not at all a mammogram virgin. I know they're uncomfortable. They're not supposed to make you howl out loud and double over in pain (as soon as you're released from the plexiglass jaws of death, that is).

I'm sure it was the technician's fault. She was either just unskilled or didn't know how to do a mammogram on tits as small as mine. I could tell she was doing it wrong even before she started lowering the boom.

And you know what? If you're doing a very routine medical procedure on someone, the kind that's only supposed to cause mild discomfort, and your patient winds up HOWLING IN PAIN AND DOUBLING OVER? The correct response is, "I'm sorry. Let's take a minute and try again." The correct answer is NOT a snippy, "I was only on Compression Three."

Fuck you. How about I Compression Three my foot up your ass?

There's no excuse for that machine. Some misogynistic descendant of Torquemada invented that fucking thing as far as I'm concerned, and you know damn well that if it was developed to be used on men they'd have long ago invented something less torturous and humiliating.

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[zatnikatel.livejournal.com]

I thank the fucking Maker that I'm not scheduled to have one of those for a few years yet. I've had two drug-free labors but the thought of a mammogram freaks me out. If men had to have their jewels squeezed like that, you can bet they would have invented a different way of doing it.

ETA And meh, I've heard they hurt worse if you're small, which I am too. So, even more meh.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Oh, I always think of men's jewels when I'm having that done.

It does hurt more if you're small because you hardly have any protective fatty tissue like larger-breasted women do. So they're basically just smashing your nipple and your shoulder. Nevertheless, I can attest that they are generally NOT this painful. They have NEVER been this painful. She was doing it wrong.