Turned up outside "The Recreation Centre" Bridgend at 9 a.m. ready for my appointment with the Bron Brawf Cymru (Breast Test Wales). Women my age have their breasts examined for cancer every 5 years I believe.
Feeling very vulnerable you are instructed and manhandled (maybe that is not the correct word) by a very efficient nurse who places you before a grey contraption. You are not expected to move any part of your body once placed quite firmly into place.
Each breast is squashed unceremoniously onto a plate and squeezed tightly. "Shall I shout Ow" I thought but I decided that would be too cowardly so I gritted my teeth and counted the seconds.
When I returned to the little cubicle to get dressed I noted a blue pamphlet on the cubicle wall "Do you have any suggestions, comments or complaints about Breast Test Wales?" Wickedly I thought to myself I bet the nurses would wonder who they had upset today if I took one, so I took it. There wasn't another one there so they are bound to notice it has gone!
Feel guilty now though, maybe I should go back and replace it.
Claire wrote...
Can't be as bad as when we got that massage in Thailand now that was manhandling and molestation!! And we paid for that!
Posted by: Claire | May 22, 2007 9:37 AM