Boobs and Balls
Check NOW please, for lumps and bumps that don't match up with the other side.
Okay, I checked my boobs. When my husband wakes up, I'll check my balls. :)
(Good advice, Monnie)
On average, testicular cancer affects men 31 years old.
Does that mean you can lose both balls at 62?
No. The average human has one testicle.
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.
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.
*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.
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.
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!
*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
FUCK IT indeed, well survived Caz!
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"
Here are some great
Fuck Cancer shirts
Oh, and Fuck Cancer.
PS And whatever you do, keep checking. Yourself and your close ones. Don't be complacent about the tiny changes, small lumps and bumps. Oh yes, FUCK CANCER!
Shame events took you out the race, we could have done with a few more like you.
Exciting times. I am more proud of my involvement now I see it almost in retrospective terms. I'm opting out the game though. I'm having something of a political crisis at the moment lol. I feel myself slipping back to the fringes. For now anyway.
Are you a member of the NAW by any chance?
What I really hate ... feeling I can't reply to a thread because someone will flip shit.
I assume this is a bump for Czin. Hope you reply to this. Wishing you the best.
huh? I mised something? Caz? It's a bump because i found the thread by accident looking for something else entirely unrelated so I felt it must be time. (the last postwas 4 years ago) i didn't see anything about Caz :( Sorry if I've hurt feelings
OK I checked. She has only posted recently in the Mornington Crescent.
I'm past the ball checking stage and into the prostate checking stage. Last time I checked it was still there, the doc didn't find anything out of the ordinary, but admittedly it was my first time. Do they usually have both hands on your shoulders when they do the exam?
depends how tall you are.
I'd written a post but deleted it after being blind-sided and kicked in the balls (figuratively) on another thread tonight. Just decided not to talk. Sorry, monster. It was general frustration, not aimed at you.
@foot ... Yeah, the prostate check is one of those exams where you don't want both of the doc's hands in plain sight :eek:
Ortho, relax. You can post any fucking thing you want. Readers can take it or leave it.
Personally, I'd be interested in what you have to say about my boobs and balls. :haha:
:corn:
wha'appened?
:lol:
Do they usually have both hands on your shoulders when they do the exam?
I wouldn't go back to that dentist.
So, I'm a little confused...
Are testicles supposed to have nipples?
Only if you've been ingesting some verrry interesting hormones.
Usually the boobs/nipples are separated from the balls by gut. Hopefully not pannus. That makes the hernia check ... difficult. :right:
nudgie.
because my friend with breast cancer is celebrating 5 years since surgery :)
Why not embroider yourself
a little reminder to help you to remember to check ...
A reminder, if you find a lump don't go to pieces.
You can't tell me this woman isn't beautiful. I suspect inside as well as out.
and
fuck cancer
Rebecca Ellison -Rio Ferdinand's wife- dead at 34 from breast cancer leaving three young children. WTF? How in the shitting hell can you die from breast cancer so young and so quickly in this day and age. have we learned nothing? This stupid disease needs not to be a thing any more.
You can't tell me this woman isn't beautiful.
I can't tell you she
is, either. She could be a butterface for all I know.
Decent enough tat, though.
"In 2012 Joanne commissioned a photographer to take pictures of her posing topless after her mastectomy. She wanted to prove that women could still be sexy and confident, she says.
She posted the pictures on Facebook and was furious when the social network removed them and threatened to close her account."
Read more:
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Hm. I should get a tat like that.
If I do, I'll post it. I've taken a few selfies of post-surgery status and tried to delete them later, but they seem to have taken on independent life. :eek:
Might have to visit my daughter to find a place I'd feel safe getting a tat like that, though. Def not around here.
Hm. I should get a tat like that.
If I do, I'll post it. I've taken a few selfies of post-surgery status and tried to delete them later, but they seem to have taken on independent life. :eek:
Might have to visit my daughter to find a place I'd feel safe getting a tat like that, though. Def not around here.
Come to Seattle. *I* do not have a tattoo, but I see a LOT of them here, and some of the most beautiful, intricate, extensive tattoos are on skaters. I can't imagine they're all traveling out of the area for them.
New study points to link between DDT and breast cancer.
There were apparently old samples of pregnant women's blood from decades ago.
Researchers tested the blood for the level of DDT. All blood had some DDT, but some of the blood had elevated levels of DDT. When they tracked down the offspring of all the blood samples, they found that the unborn children of the women with elevated DDT levels in their blood had a
four times greater risk of developing breast cancer than the others with "normal" levels of DDT in their blood.
The link was never seen before because they were looking within the same generation, not looking at the developing fetuses of the next generation.
One person cautioned "the number of breast cancer cases was small -- 103 -- so "the results should be interpreted cautiously.""