whish they told us this in school, all they did was say “feel for lumps, you will know when you feel it”
This is important, even if it doesn’t work with your blog theme REBLOG IT!!!!
Women need to know this, not all of us have ever been told what we need to look out for!
yeah reblogging especially for my transmasc fellows who (like me) might be real uncomfortable with their chests and not know what to watch out for because we try to avoid this kind of thing (just me? okay)
I read all the health pamphlets as a child.
“Look for lumps,” they said, “watch out for unusual lumps and discharge.”
They did NOT say, “By the way, some areolas have little bumps on them. And some get pimple-ish things around the edges. Or on the nipples. These are not the lumps we are talking about, and that is not the discharge we are talking about.”
I spent years worrying about whether I had breast cancer. (I got exams, every year or two, and those were always fine and I stopped worrying. Mostly. But then a new tiny bump would show up on the edges and I would wonder IS THIS IT? …but not ask to see a doctor because 14-year-old girls worry about everything, all the time, and six months ago the doctor poked at my breasts and didn’t say anything alarming, so this is… probably fine? Like last time?)
I had a slightly more present and caring doctor tell me what I need to be looking for specifically are lumps that feel like peas or grains of rice.
That distinction cleared so much up for me, like, breast tissue is all lumps and bumps normally (which is what mamories feel like to me). What the hell do they mean by lumps????
If you had a cough in the late 1800’s you were in for a wild ride!! Check this blog!
Can I substitute opium for the chloroform and morphia? I guess my ideal drink is cannabis-laced laudanum. I’ll take it in a green crystal decanter. Thanks.
On this day, 16 February 1943, US-born translator, writer and German anti-Nazi resistance activist Mildred Fish-Harnack was beheaded in Berlin: the only US woman to be executed on dictator Adolf Hitler’s personal orders.
Fish-Harnack was a leading activist in the largest underground resistance group in Berlin, known to its members as the Circle, but better known to many by the name given to it by the Nazis: the “Red Orchestra”. The group recruited other resistance activists, distributed anti-fascist propaganda, and some of its members provided valuable intelligence on Nazi military plans to rival governments, including the US and Soviet Union.
Fish-Harnack was arrested alongside her husband, Arvid Harnack, and brutally tortured, tried and sentenced to hard labour, while Arvid was executed. But her sentence enraged Hitler, who ordered she be retried and sentenced to death.
Upon reviewing the case after Germany’s defeat in World War II, US intelligence determined that Fish-Harnack’s execution was justified. The US then recruited the Nazi who prosecuted Fish-Harnack, and helped him avoid being charged with war crimes at Nuremberg. Meanwhile, British intelligence recruited the Nazi responsible for Fish-Harnack’s arrest and torture, faking his death and giving him a new identity as a factory manager in West Germany.
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