So all, Went for the routine Mammogram as I was called early as part of a "experimental and educational programme" AKA tits in a vice time!!!
Anyway I go through the procedure and was sent packing with the leaflets and information about what happens next. 5 days later I receive a letter from our local hospital asking me to go back as something had shown on the mammogram they needed to investigate further!!! I will not lie I was terrified, having watched my own mum go through lumpectomy, chemo, radio and 10 year check ups and the like when she was only 48, I had an awful feeling that something had shown which was going to give me concern in the future.
Anyway off I head with my Mother beside me for more tests including further squeezing of the boobs in an even bigger machine and it appeared to feel like an even tighter vice and then onto ultrasound for a good old root around.....
I was called in to see the Breast Doctor who looked at me and said " everything is fine" thank the lord I wanted to kiss her.... but then she gave us the reasons for the initial concern...... because I am what you call a top heavy kinda girl.... she basically said that because my boobs were so big and so tightly cramped into that itsy bitsy teeny weeny oversized and painful machinery
my boobs were creasing like a crinkled up jumper!!!! So basically my boobs were like a pleated A lined Skirt!!!!
which subsequently showed as an abnormality on the initial mammogram!!!! Oh the joys of being a larger girl!!!
