[Sca-cooks] OT: cook for a cure

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> While we're on the topic of breast cancer, allow me to interject my usual
> bit of disability advocacy on the topic...
>
> There are no studies actually showing this, but according to a group that
> focuses on health of women with disabilities (name of such group at
office,
> can't remember now), there is less than 10% of all mammogram machines that
> are accessible to women with disabilities.  That is, traditional machines
> can't be adjusted for a woman in a wheelchair, or a woman with another
type
> of physical disability that won't allow her to stand, or stand for long
> (such as say, arthritis).

Well, Muiredach, all I can say is that they're bloody lucky ;-O I don't know
about anybody else, but it'll be a long time before I allow someone to slam
my anatomy in a freezer door again. I'll risk the cancer, in preference to
putting up with the damned test.

OTOH, I do agree that those who would choose to be tested, should have
access to the equipment, regardless of their disability. Maybe while they're
making the design more accessible, they can see about making the rest of the
X-ray  procedure less obnoxious.

Phlip

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....