When I had my annual ob/gyn appointment last November, we needed to schedule a mammogram, but the year before, because I have dense breasts, my doctor scheduled both mammography and sonography as screens, but apparently no insurance company will pay for sonography as a screen, you have to see something suspicious on a mammogram, so I ended up paying for that out of pocket, and it was very expensive, so I wanted to figure out what I should do, because my doctor thinks mammography is not enough for me, but she said they were about to get a 3D machine, which is much better than 2D, so maybe I should just wait for the 3D machine, which would be there by the end of February, allegedly, but then, of course, with all the regular delays and then the covid delays, it wasn’t, and so when I went for my follow-up in June, I asked if I should just get a 2D or wait or what, because by now it had been 17 months since my last mammogram, and she said if I were her sister, she’d tell me to not wait, and she could send me to Dartmouth, which is a couple of hours away but is in their system, and I asked if there was anything closer, and I could in fact go to the hospital where I used to get my mammograms done, before I got in with this ob/gyn at long last, who wanted to keep all my records down by her, so we scheduled that, and the people there were lovely as always, and 3D felt just like 2D but with an extra D, and according to that screen, I’m good.
Ugh. Good for you for persevering though. And good you're good.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad your good. And as always, and not to make light of the subject matter but purely from a writing standpoint, you are the doyenne of the one-sentence post.
ReplyDeleteI am currently reading Apeirogon (by Colum McCann). On page 229 he attempts a one-sentence paragraph. Yours is (are) better.
DeleteAnd I think you would find the book interesting, as it is full of facts about birds (which surprised me, given that it's "the story of Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian, and Rami Elhanan, an Israeli, and how they come together after the terrible loss of both of their daughters--one to suicide bombers and the other to border police.").
Wow. That does sound interesting, although I am (mostly) steering clear of more tragedy.
DeleteGlad you're good. The extra D made me laugh.
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree with Helen - so nice to see an Indigo Bunting one-sentence post.
I hope I didn't overdo it with my July/August roundup.
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