Friday, May 23, 2014

The Unmentionable MUST be Mentioned!

This year, I crossed the threshold into a new decade of life.  Because of this, I have spent the last few months visiting doctors, getting check ups, etc. to get my body geared up for the next ten years.  Admittedly, I'm no spring chick.  The once shiny feathers are loosing a bit of their luster, or even falling out. Regardless, preserving this marvelous vehicle which I experience life with has become increasingly important to me, so I do it.  During these visits, it has been brought to my attention, that now is the time when most women should start getting mammograms.
TRULY, is this arcane practice still continuing!?  To me, this is the medical equivalent of banging two rocks together to make fire.  I've tried to shed most of my man-hating ways, but this is one evidence that sexism is still hard at work.  Were men were required to lay their testicles between two, icy, metal plates to be squeezed and smashed, whilst simultaneously performing Russian acrobatic tricks to provide the hospital the best possible analysis of said body parts, this practice would have been outdated YEARS AGO!
SURELY, with all of the technology available today, there is a better way to accomplish this.  We put a man on the moon 40+ years ago, but we can't figure out a better way to analyze breast tissue?  COME ON!  Someone has got to build an app for it.  I'll even start the funding.  Who's in?