[Sca-cooks] OT: cook for a cure

[AnnaMarie]

Maire, you might want to check out a different form of mammogram, here's the
link

http://www.nabco.org/index.php/index.php/index.php/167

IIRC it doesn't squash you flat.

Kristianne
two years before baseline......

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sue Clemenger" <mooncat at in-tch.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] OT: cook for a cure


> I'd imagine you're right about that....the one I unfortunately get *my*
> anatomy slammed in isn't even that accessible if you're *short!* For
> pete's sake, I'm 5'5" (duh! like average height here!), and I have to go
> up on tip-toes for the slamming.  I have no *clue* what a woman with
> limited mobility would do!
> It does occur to me, though, (just as I'm getting ready to hit the
> "send" button! <g>) that the women's groups and health-related groups
> that really push for things like educating women about breast self-exams
> should be encouraged to reach out to women with physical disabilities.
> Hmmm....now I'm curious about our local facilities.  I've got a
> co-worker who's pretty active in cancer-survivor groups.  Think I'll
> talk to her tomorrow.....
> --maire, who makes herself go, because her mom died of metastasized
> breast cancer, and it wasn't pretty....
>
> Gorgeous Muiredach wrote:
> >
> > >To tell the truth, i didn't go myself. But Crosston sponsors a
> > >medical fund raising mini-war every year, and i do believe this
> > >year's was for breast cancer. Also a number of Crosstonians took part
> > >in one of those walks to raise money for breast cancer research.
> >
> > 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).
> >
> > Many, many women with disabilities won't even bother with the hassle of
> > trying to get checked, as a lot of the doctors are ill educated on the
topic.
> >
> > I know a lady who had radical double mastectomy because of it.  I knew
two
> > other ladies that died because of it.
> >
> > That's all I had to say about that.
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