[jana]

I went for my annual mammogram, today. Our local hospital does it a couple of days a week. I usually go to the "big city" Women's Center -- just can't find the energy this year. As I was signing in, a guy walked through the office -- spraying for bugs. I FREAKED. Mom was with me (somebody is ALWAYS "with" me -- breathing difficulties are always possible), so she told me to go on ahead, she would finish the paperwork. I sat in the mammo waiting room -- maybe 5 minutes before anyone saw me. The attendant then said that they had JUST sprayed THERE, TOO!! She put me INTO the x-ray room where they had NOT sprayed-- by that time, I could barely talk -- my head was spinning -- I couldn't THINK. Mom found me -- told them we were LEAVING -- would be back ANOTHER day. When I got home, I still couldn't think -- mom called my sister -- she made me take a shower and wash my hair.

I never smelled the stuff -- but, I've been "tasting" it all day. It has been almost 8 hours -- my brain still feels addled -- I'm slurring pretty badly -- my breathing is very shallow.

My point?? Hospitals are supposed to be SAFE places where people have a chance to get WELL. Pesticides can KILL MGers. I got so "addled" today -- I would have just sat there -- like a roach -- and gradually gotten weaker and weaker and........if I hadn't been there with someone who KNEW all about me and what to do. What IF I hadn't SEEN the guy spraying? I would have gotten ILL (or worse) and not known WHY!