Mashed flat

September 10th, 2009

I was originally planning to start this blog on my birthday, which is still almost three weeks away. Then something happened that put me right smack up against an entire panoply of major fears all at once, so I figured there’s no time like the present. In short: I had a mammogram on Thursday morning, as one does when one reaches a Certain Age. It was my second mammogram ever. And on Thursday afternoon, I got the kind of phone call you really don’t want to get, the one where your doctor tells you there was something on the mammogram that wasn’t there the previous time, and would you please call this number to schedule a follow-up at your earliest opportunity?

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