Midlife is relentless at tuning your body to a register of pain and mortality. When I think about the treatment my friend will go through, I am scared and filled with hope
Every few months, one of my former college roommates sends a mirror selfie to the group chat, taken at a hospital or doctor’s office. Now that we’re all 45 or so, we mark annual mammograms with these dispatches, which we call Mammo Moments.
We compare the cover-ups our healthcare providers offer for the procedures. Mine is the most stylish, a medical blue cropped batwing poncho with silver snap buttons. My friend’s clinic supplies what we call, in vintage Project Runway parlance, “a tortured garment”: a stiff rectangle of synthetic fabric with exaggerated shoulders and stickers to fasten it in place. We send celebrity mammogram Instagram posts (we liked Padma Lakshmi’s facial expressions and reminder to get your “ta-tas” checked and Chrissy Teigen’s boast of “free titty lotion”) and plot a bestselling coffee table book of mammogram selfies.
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Continue reading… Midlife is relentless at tuning your body to a register of pain and mortality. When I think about the treatment my friend will go through, I am scared and filled with hopeEvery few months, one of my former college roommates sends a mirror selfie to the group chat, taken at a hospital or doctor’s office. Now that we’re all 45 or so, we mark annual mammograms with these dispatches, which we call Mammo Moments.We compare the cover-ups our healthcare providers offer for the procedures. Mine is the most stylish, a medical blue cropped batwing poncho with silver snap buttons. My friend’s clinic supplies what we call, in vintage Project Runway parlance, “a tortured garment”: a stiff rectangle of synthetic fabric with exaggerated shoulders and stickers to fasten it in place. We send celebrity mammogram Instagram posts (we liked Padma Lakshmi’s facial expressions and reminder to get your “ta-tas” checked and Chrissy Teigen’s boast of “free titty lotion”) and plot a bestselling coffee table book of mammogram selfies.No sex drive and a ‘tanking libido’: how I redefined intimacy in midlifeFirst my left knee, then my right: my middle-aged body’s betrayalPerimenopause has brought chaos to my life – but also peace Continue reading… Well actually, Breast cancer, Health, Life and style
