Breast Cancer Scare: No Cell Phone in the Waiting Room
Getting a mammogram is a necessary evil, especially after having breast cancer back in 2016. SO back in Ohio and back to the Breast Center at MVH I went for my yearly mammo. Having completed the squish plate chore, the nurse took the results to be read by the radiologist. I had to wait in the exam room and DRAT forgot my phone to distract me. The room was quiet except for the faint hum from the machine in the corner. I stared at the mammo bot in the corner, white and still, clinical and cold BUT then I noticed a face. Pareidolia seems to be a thing with me. Not much else in the room to hold my interest to thought I'd close my eyes and meditate. I heard a noise from the corner. Mammo bot looked taller. I looked and looked and the machine looked… taller. It hadn’t been that tall before. Had it? Wheels. There were wheels at the base. “Was it always on wheels?” Surely, I would have noticed something like that. A machine that large, mobile, ready ...
