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本日の便利英語： 「あれをなんとかしてくれ」（日本語は1日前のをご覧ください）
I'm happy it's suddenly so cool, but it's a bit too cold at nights to sleep.
I have to wear long sleeved shirt and pants because the last thing I want to do
is to take out futon for a mere few days of this irregularity. As a result, I couldn't sleep well.
Perhaps it's because I live in montains.
Thus I didn't start this week with perfect condition, nevertheless the first thing
I had to do on Monday morning was breast cancer check-up.
The word that represents nothing but pain and fear for any women who have done this
- Mammography.
Pain is a hard thing to describe, but let me give it a shot.
Mammography hurts like nothing can possibly be worse than this.
Well, there might be pain worse than this, but then you'll either get morphine shots
or pass out. Mammography pain is the worst pain with which you're barely able to keep
your sanity for very short time.
One shot takes, say, 12-13 seconds, and if this was 16 seconds,
I don't think I'd be able to hold myself together, and I swear I will not
go back for that test for the rest of my life no matter how high the risk of cancer
gets.
What they do in the test are:
1. Forcibly place one of your breasts in a vertical acrylic vice
2. Press it as flat and thin as possible
3. Take a shot
4. Repeat 1 - 3 on the other side
5. Forcibly place one of your breasts in a horizontal acrylic vice
6. Press it as flat and thin as possible
7. Take a shot
8. Repeat 1 - 3 on the other side
So, basicaly one test is comprised of 4 X-ray shootings.
Pressing a human live breast flat that is still attached to the test subject generates
pain that should be only experienced in hell, but to make the matter much worse,
to make sure that nothing but breast is in the shot, shoulders, chin and any other body parts
have to be kept away from the breast and the vice as far as possible.
This, of course, is done by nobody or nothing but the test subject herself
with most painful and desperate efforts.
The pain she experiences here is absolutely beyond description.
"Ouch!" or "Awwwwwwww!!!!!!" are the most usual things people in pain exclaim
in attempt to dissipate the pain even if only slightly.
However, with this breast-crushing hell test, you don't have the luxury to say anything.
This is because unless you put all the energy and power of will you got, you can't possibly
confront the pain you're going to undergo.
There is no place for breathing, let alone exclamation.
Here are the conditions you will be left with after mammography:
-a bit of dizziness because of the sudden rise and drop of blood pressure
-rough breathing for more than an hour
-irregular pulses if you have a bit of sporadic arrhythmia like me
-neck/shoulder/back pains after a few hours because you clench your jaw with
abnormal force to fight the pain of the test
-breast soreness mainly in the base areas, which turns to a bruise-like pain
after a few hours
I can't help worring about internal trauma. AND DEATH.
What if I die in this test?!
Moreover, the technician told something so totally unbelievably disturbing
to me, who was on the verge of passing out after 4 shots;
"Oh, the first shot had your shoulder over the breast. I need another shot."
(Another shot, are you kidding!? Are you gonna kill me?)
I faintly thought, but what choice did I have?!
Putting myself together and hoping that no cerebrovascular hemorrhage will occcur,
I faced my fate....
I have to ask a question to medical equipment industry people.
Do you really think this mammography equipment thing is satisfactory?
I understand if the machine is just a product that appears in transition period.
I understand if a several years, or even 10 years from now, people look back and say,
"Oh, yeah, mammography machine, I remember! That was a very bad joke!!"
But if you think you've created a perfect machine that needes no further development,
then I, no, EVERY SINGLE BREAST in the world will not forgive you!!
If you people consider that thing a completed product, then you're not humans!!
May I remind you that our breasts are connected to us women with nerves!!
They are not some kind of noodle or bread dough, or pizza dough either!!!
Do you have any idea just how many women take that test and decide that they will
never ever take that again?!
On the other hand, if you're diligently working on it, sorry about what I said.
But, you know what? Maybe you should still listen to what I said.
And please hurry!
I really may die from the test one day in near future.
Prevent that from happening, will you?
After 30 hours, my breasts still hurt.
I don't know if I will take that test next year.....
Oh, for God's sake, do something about that!!!!!!
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