Imagine standing in front of a vice grip while someone maneuvers your upper lip to a location inside the grip that folds your nose flat in the process. Then being told to relax while the grip is tightened tight, then tighter, and then just a little tighter, then being politely asked to hold your breath for 20 seconds before the grip is let loose and you get your lip back. Imagine doing the same thing four different times for each lip.
If you imagined the above clearly enough, then you have a vague idea of how Ruby felt when she had her mammogram a week ago Friday. Needless to say, she walked out of the facility relieved that she had that process over for another year. Then came last Friday,when her phone rang.
"Hello... Ms. Hardbottle?" said the voice on the phone
"Yes" , said Ruby
"We have received your mammogram films and the doctor wants to take some magnified shots. Can you come in on Monday?"
"Uhhh...Yeah".. said the stunned and disappointed Ruby.
This morning she got up early and drove to the infirmary. There she went through the process again, for just one "lip". Magnified views mean tighter yet on the vice grip. Ruby's "lip" is a still a little sore from the process.
"They took the extra painful views, and then I waited while the doctor looked at the films." "The technician came back and needed one more extra tight (extra-extra painful) view. It was at this point that the machine's computer failed, and it had to be retaken" said Ruby. "I was quiet and cooperative on the outside and wanting to run from the building on the inside!"
Finally the doctor came to see Ruby. "There is nothing suspicious for cancer, but there is an area of calcification that I would like to keep an eye on" he said. "I am going to schedule you to return again in 6 months."
Ruby is a little bummed.
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