Boobs and Balls

monster · 05-13-2009, 09:24 PM

Check NOW please, for lumps and bumps that don't match up with the other side.

Pie · 05-13-2009, 09:36 PM

Okay, I checked my boobs. When my husband wakes up, I'll check my balls.

(Good advice, Monnie)

Undertoad · 05-13-2009, 10:39 PM

On average, testicular cancer affects men 31 years old.

SteveDallas · 05-13-2009, 10:55 PM

Does that mean you can lose both balls at 62?

ZenGum · 05-13-2009, 11:15 PM

No. The average human has one testicle.

Sundae · 05-14-2009, 03:31 AM

My evil ex worked - and was close friends with - a man who had testicular cancer. While they worked together his gf felt a lump, bullied him into going to the doctor. Within a very short space of time he was in hospital having one of his knackers whipped off and replaced with a prosthetic.

I was all sympathy and understanding of course. Said to the evil ex, "Good job it wasn't you. You see me so rarely these days you'd be riddled with cancer before I noticed. Oh. Except I bet there's other women fondling your balls when I'm not here."

Yes, I am ashamed of that relationship.

monster · 05-14-2009, 08:10 PM

The other board I (used to) post on has only had one death of a member that we know about, and that was from testicular cancer. But two of my personal close friends have got boob cancer diagnoses in the past few months. it's too many. One of them admits to not checking regularly. she wondered how and when to tell her kids what was going on, I said, for once LIE to them. tell them you were just doing your routine monthly check and you found an irregularity, so you're getting it checked out to be on the safe side (this is before it was confirmed).

it's not usually an overly fun thing to do -more fun if your partner helps, but also more likely to lead to something being missed if they do ... but hey, it's a shitload more fun than surgery and chemo. And death.

DanaC · 05-15-2009, 03:09 AM

*Shakes head*

In the last few years I've known a few people affected by the big C. A party member (who lives down the road); a friend of J's family (whom I remember well from our youth in Bolton); a former work colleague. One of my closest friends (J's partner) had breast cancer a few years ago and recently had a scare and had to do rounds of tests.

Bri's journey, obviously, I think hit most of us here whilst she was going through it. Sarge's recent scare too. I know there have been a couple of other dwellars affected.

Sometimes it feels like some kind of spectre hovering around.

I hope your friend is ok Monnie. And this is a good thread and a timely reminder to us all.

glatt · 05-15-2009, 08:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster

Check NOW please, for lumps and bumps that don't match up with the other side.

Thanks for the reminder. Checked this morning in the shower. I'm good for now.

Queen of the Ryche · 05-15-2009, 11:42 AM

Fuck cancer.

DanaC · 05-15-2009, 01:17 PM

Fuck cancer.

CzinZumerzet · 05-15-2009, 05:03 PM

I'll gladly drink to that, having been visited more than once by the malignant bastard, which I seem to think now brings out the best in me. I'm now in my 60s a calm reflective pacific sort of woman, who in my youth, was a true revolutionary and trade union activist. I think the cancer brought back the tilter of windmills, the woman astride the barricades, the women's movement activist and anti-war protester.

I think we all have it in a primitive way, the ability/strength/rebel within to step up to the threat, the enemy, and no greater enemy than Cancer. Fuck it!

DanaC · 05-15-2009, 05:06 PM

*smiles* ahhh you're one of the trail blazers. Prior to the Trade Union movement's discovery of women as well by the sound of it

Undertoad · 05-15-2009, 05:20 PM

FUCK IT indeed, well survived Caz!

CzinZumerzet · 05-15-2009, 05:26 PM

Yes probably, but my memory holds it as all of a piece, know what I mean? In the late 60s early 70s I had to join and become a shop steward because of the Labour government's undermining and running down of the NHS, where I was first a student then Registered Nurse.

It feels as if the women's revolutionary movement moved into the NHS more or less at the same time, and all of the women I knew were so ready for it! That's partly because as a professional group, nurses had been downtrodden and penalised for the whole of our history. See the merging of action and philososphy, for different yet identical reasons.

I loved it Dana, just as you do. It was without doubt the most important and exciting period of my life and we burned with fervour and were driven by passion for the truth. Our truth. By 1996/1997 I was preparing to run for parliament in a safe seat, boundaried by Joan Ruddock's constituency in Deptford when my first brush with cancer put paid to it, otherwise - heaven protect us - I would have been one of 'Blair's Babes' !!!

Come the revolution...

See you at the barricade Dana *smiles backatcha"

05-13-2009, 09:24 PM	#1
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Boobs and Balls Check NOW please, for lumps and bumps that don't match up with the other side. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

05-13-2009, 09:36 PM	#2
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	Okay, I checked my boobs. When my husband wakes up, I'll check my balls. (Good advice, Monnie) __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

05-13-2009, 11:15 PM	#5
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	No. The average human has one testicle. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

05-14-2009, 03:31 AM	#6
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	My evil ex worked - and was close friends with - a man who had testicular cancer. While they worked together his gf felt a lump, bullied him into going to the doctor. Within a very short space of time he was in hospital having one of his knackers whipped off and replaced with a prosthetic. I was all sympathy and understanding of course. Said to the evil ex, "Good job it wasn't you. You see me so rarely these days you'd be riddled with cancer before I noticed. Oh. Except I bet there's other women fondling your balls when I'm not here." Yes, I am ashamed of that relationship. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

05-14-2009, 08:10 PM	#7
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	The other board I (used to) post on has only had one death of a member that we know about, and that was from testicular cancer. But two of my personal close friends have got boob cancer diagnoses in the past few months. it's too many. One of them admits to not checking regularly. she wondered how and when to tell her kids what was going on, I said, for once LIE to them. tell them you were just doing your routine monthly check and you found an irregularity, so you're getting it checked out to be on the safe side (this is before it was confirmed). it's not usually an overly fun thing to do -more fun if your partner helps, but also more likely to lead to something being missed if they do ... but hey, it's a shitload more fun than surgery and chemo. And death. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

05-13-2009, 10:39 PM	#3
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	On average, testicular cancer affects men 31 years old.

05-13-2009, 10:55 PM	#4
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	Does that mean you can lose both balls at 62?

05-15-2009, 11:42 AM	#10
Queen of the Ryche is fleeing the scene Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Beautiful CO Posts: 1,510	Fuck cancer. __________________ Once, in an interview, Chuck Norris admitted that he was not the most awesome thing ever. He declined to elaborate; but I believe we all know that he was referring to the existence of chocolate covered bacon. I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by six.

05-15-2009, 05:03 PM	#12
CzinZumerzet .....short for Caz Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The West Coast of England Posts: 358	I'll gladly drink to that, having been visited more than once by the malignant bastard, which I seem to think now brings out the best in me. I'm now in my 60s a calm reflective pacific sort of woman, who in my youth, was a true revolutionary and trade union activist. I think the cancer brought back the tilter of windmills, the woman astride the barricades, the women's movement activist and anti-war protester. I think we all have it in a primitive way, the ability/strength/rebel within to step up to the threat, the enemy, and no greater enemy than Cancer. Fuck it! __________________ ..down by the zea zippin' zider

05-15-2009, 05:20 PM	#14
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	FUCK IT indeed, well survived Caz!

05-15-2009, 05:26 PM	#15
CzinZumerzet .....short for Caz Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The West Coast of England Posts: 358	Yes probably, but my memory holds it as all of a piece, know what I mean? In the late 60s early 70s I had to join and become a shop steward because of the Labour government's undermining and running down of the NHS, where I was first a student then Registered Nurse. It feels as if the women's revolutionary movement moved into the NHS more or less at the same time, and all of the women I knew were so ready for it! That's partly because as a professional group, nurses had been downtrodden and penalised for the whole of our history. See the merging of action and philososphy, for different yet identical reasons. I loved it Dana, just as you do. It was without doubt the most important and exciting period of my life and we burned with fervour and were driven by passion for the truth. Our truth. By 1996/1997 I was preparing to run for parliament in a safe seat, boundaried by Joan Ruddock's constituency in Deptford when my first brush with cancer put paid to it, otherwise - heaven protect us - I would have been one of 'Blair's Babes' !!! Come the revolution... See you at the barricade Dana *smiles backatcha" __________________ ..down by the zea zippin' zider

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