So boys consider the title of this blog a warning.
Pap smears are such a hassle. It is hard to imagine a more ridiculous, and powerless assessment. I mean boys just have to have a blood test for their prostate, and I do remember the boys I knew in High school recounting the mortification of the ‘cup and cough’ examine.
But really boys get it easy…. or at least I think.
Women have to have their breasts squished between two magnetic plates – and then there is the complete horrendousness of the Pap Smear. Golly…. take bottom half off, leap onto clinical trolley, stare at ceiling (and to be honest this is the saving grace…. if only they would put a TV up there and then you could pretend you were in this crazy position is the only way you can watch that particular TV program)… but this is not it…. bend knees, bend hips, soles of feet together and let your knees sink to the bed. Then there is the put your hands beneath you bottom. Now I am deeply suspicious of this request, it may have some anatomical benefit but it also stops you punching the person who is intently inserting, and scrapping in nether regions. Occasionally, there is the need to cough, breath deeply. No idea whether this helps, and maybe it is cheaper than the TV alluded to earlier. But really it is the last thing on your mind!
I have yet to endure the Mammogram but I guess that is what I have to look forward to in my 40′s.
After thought: I have been looking for an image for this blog and to be honest every picture is aligned with the crazziness of Tampon adverts – apparently no body with crooked teeth, dark hair, and over 30 ever has to have a Pap Smear…….
