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🗓️ 9 April 2024
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“doctor week” is a week i dread every year. it’s a week where i stuff as many doctor’s appointments in as possible because i dread them so much that i want to get them all over with as quickly as possible. this time, the appointments were a mammogram, ultrasound, pap smear, genetic testing, and an egg freezing consultation. i talk about what these appointments brought up for me emotionally, in the most i-have-zero-credentials-and-am-clearly-not-a-doctor sort of way.
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0:00.0 | Lemonnotta. |
0:05.0 | So this past week has been Health Week. |
0:11.0 | Health Week. Do you guys have this? Do you do this? I hate doctor's appointments of any all kinds. |
0:40.6 | I just can't stand them so I try to schedule as many as possible back to back in the same week to just knock them all out. |
0:47.0 | So that was this past week for me. I had a pap smear, a mammogram, an ultrasound. Don't be scared to their regular checkups for me. |
1:00.2 | I believe most women start getting mammograms when they're 40. I started when I was 25 |
1:07.5 | because my mom was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer when she was 36 or 37 years old and so that's always what's on |
1:19.2 | my order form every time I get a mammogram right there written on the order form. |
1:24.4 | It's like mammogram plus ultrasound, bilateral, and then where it says reason, |
1:29.8 | the doctor writes, well she writes two things. |
1:32.6 | The first thing she writes is, |
1:34.4 | Mother diagnosed with stage four cancer at 36. |
1:37.4 | The second thing she writes is dense breasts, |
1:40.9 | which, I don't know if that's a compliment but it sure is all doesn't sound like one. |
1:46.0 | Like dense breasts can't she describe it a little bit differently? |
1:50.0 | I don't like it. Every time I see that on the form I'm like, I'm like, I'm here for the mammogram for my dense breasts. |
1:58.0 | It's a, sounds gross. |
2:01.0 | So I had those and then I also had genetic testing. It was easy enough. It was in just like a boring looking regular seeming doctor's office. |
2:12.0 | But it, you know, it is weird sometimes because like I walk in and everybody tries to look busy like but they're looking at me because they recognize me. |
2:24.0 | It didn't happen to the mammogram. |
2:26.0 | It happened to the ultrasound, which is, you know, where they do the jelly and all that. |
2:30.0 | So my bo got your book. |
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