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View Poll Results: Do you do monthly exams? | |||
YES! I do them faithfully! | 2 | 50.00% | |
NO! Who has the time? | 1 | 25.00% | |
OCCASIONALLY...only when I think about it. | 1 | 25.00% | |
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09-09-2006, 09:25 AM | #1 |
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Breast Exams
Do you do monthly breast exams? I'm guilty of not doing them. It's not that I don't think about it, I guess you could say that I'm just too lazy to mess with them.
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09-09-2006, 11:00 AM | #2 |
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Yes definitely!!! I always check once a week when I'm taking a shower. I just wouldn't want to deal with cancer. I'm usually the strong one in my family and they just need me to be there. I know I'm going to sound hypocritial here, but even though I don't want cancer, I won't have a colonoscopy. I should, I know, but that stuff you have to drink to clean you out is so disgusting I can't get it down. If they could come up with something else to clean us out, then I would have that procedure done too.
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09-12-2006, 08:38 PM | #3 |
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listen to "Grammy".... (okiegal)
I could be your mother or grandmother....but please please listen.
I am alive today because I found my tumor.......I was between mammograms....and layed across the bed with my arms raised above my head......The moment I felt It I knew it was cancer. I could even see the size of it when I lay flat.......terrifying...... In a recent cancer support magagzine....it is estimated that over 70% are found by the woman..... After 2 surgeries, chemotherapy, radiation, the loss of my shoulder length brown hair.......I was found to be cancer free.....for now..... I watch my body carefully.....Thank you God for the time I have been given....I don't plan on wasting it....too much to do and people to meet. |
09-13-2006, 06:07 AM | #4 |
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OMG!!! What an intense post!! You have just put up a red flag for every woman on here. What a blessing it is we have you here!!! Thank you
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09-13-2006, 08:10 AM | #5 |
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Hey it won't let me vote But i don't check like i should either But thanks for the reminder.
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09-13-2006, 08:14 AM | #6 |
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Don't feel like the lone "non-voter" Amber, it won't let me vote either but - I'm guilty of not checking regularly either. I get the mammograms once a year (now that I'm over 40) but I don't do the self-exam like I should.
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09-13-2006, 09:52 AM | #7 |
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Everyone needs to be checking!! And don't neglect the mamograms. I skipped a couple and when I went in late February, they found a lump that was too small to feel, but large enought to kick everyone at the hospital into high gear. Weirdest "routine" mamogram I ever had. Thankfully after a biopsy and lumpectory they determined that it was not cancer, yet. But was I kicking myself for skipping those mamograms.
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