This Poem was Submitted By: Thelma Mary Claydon On Date: 2000-07-22 09:31:51 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

To Listen to Music While Reading this Poem, just Click Here!

Click Here To add this poem to your "Voting Possibilities" list!


Half A Mammogram

HALF A MAMMOGRAM All the experts told me, that from 50 to 65 To go and have a mammogram or I may not stay alive My health could quickly fail me if cancer took a hold, I packed my bags and off to Perth to do as I was told The doctor said."That's very good, you’ve done the wisest thing" If cancers not caught early, your chances may be slim. He sent me to a clinic, where two ladies lay in wait, To take down my particulars, "It’s all for my own sake" I realized I had to go, a mammogram's a must The lady said “take off your top, and have your boobies crushed" Well crush, they did on one of them, then another lady came. "We cannot do the other one, we hadn’t read the claim." "What happens now" I asked the girl, "what now must I do". "The Medi care won’t cover this", she said with eyes so shrewd. "You’ll have to find somebody else that’s all that I can say" She never asked as I walked out, if I would like to pay I could have paid her on the spot and had the other done I had to tell my husband, "they only done just one. When I got home and rang her up and asked when I could see The results of my half mammogram, she was very rude to me  "We don’t send that" she said to me," we've put it in the bin" My mind went back to my poor boob, all squashed up in that thing, She asked me how I knew that only one breast had been done "I only know, because I was there." They only checked just one. If cancer comes and takes me, before I have my test There won't be much that I can do. I know I've done my best As those ladies in that other clinic, line up to get their pay, I hope they think of my poor boob. The one they threw away.

Copyright © July 2000 Thelma Mary Claydon

Additional Notes:
This is a true story, although I have written it and it sounds like it happened to me, well I have to tell you. IT DIDN'T, it happened to my twin sister and when she told me I couldn't stop laughing so I got out the pen and paper a bit quick before she said that I could not write a poem about her medical blunders I hope you enjoy it, Bob asked me to send it in


Sorry, there are no critiques for this poem in our system... If the poem is older, the critiques have been purged! Poetry Contests Online at The Poetic Link

Click HERE to return to ThePoeticLink.com Database Page!