The liquid was basically K-Y jelly.
It is not so bad.


I started getting pap smears when I was in my late 30s when I was on the pill for a little while.
I started getting mammos around 40.

I kept up with the paps but have not been for a mammo because it is a HUGE FREAKING hassle and the people doing the office work/paper work
are slow and annoying and weird as all get out.
AND it takes a half a day to deal with those morons. It does not help that my anxiety levels are always high when I am waiting for nonsense.
Eighteen months ago I had a melt down at the gyn's office about doing the extensive forms.
I was close to panic and then sobbing uncontrollably.


The technicians are always wonderful.

I have to get the mammo soon because I missed about three or four years.

My sis and I keep up with those things even though we know of no one in our large extended paternal or maternal families who has had a medical issue related to that.
We do it because we want our husbands to have comfort in knowing that that we are taking care of ourselves.

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