Comments on: One Life

By: Kristen

Kristen — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:53:03 +0000

I also thought of you immediately when I saw this move on the wire. I was absolutely appalled. How can you put a price tag on a life? I, for one, will continue to do self-exams, and I absolutely will go for my first mammogram at 40. And I will tell all my girlfriends to do the same. To recommend otherwise is pure insanity.

By: Fawn Ouelletet

Fawn Ouelletet — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:23:21 +0000

Hi Fran, I saw this on the news last night and was in awe. I thought about you and all the other women that have or have had breast cancer. It makes no sense to me. I have a mammogram set up for this Friday and am happy to have the appointment …who knows if it would be allowed if I waited to set it up for next month?!? Crazy stuff, I say.
Love ya!

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:22:27 +0000

I would be dead if I waited until 50. No history in my family. Not a likely candidate for breast cancer. Had a mammogram in March of my 42nd year, everything was fine. Had a lump in my arm pit in May of my 42nd year (yes, a couple of months later), ultrasound showed nothing and they said I was fine but MY fabulous internist said “you know what, just for the heck of it let’s get another mammogram”. Lo and behold, “hey, there is something in there”. Not where my lump was in my armpit, but behind my nipple. “Where was that a couple of months ago” I ask. It was too small to see. So does that mean they will begin using ultrasounds more often than mammograms because it is cheaper? I hope not. . . I am living proof that one is not better than the other, they are important together. I heard that news on the radio and I thought I was going to throw up. . .