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This is an intimate subject for women so if you are a guy you probably don't want to read this, but I say fair is fair if I have to put up with Trojan commercials and adds for Viagra then you can put up with what I am about to say and if you want to gripe you have your own journal to do that in.

I have been having some problems with my breasts lately. For about a year they have been getting sore from time to time and my left is slightly swollen a bit larger than my right. So getting worried after my mother's most recent bout with breast cancer and the death of a lady at church I thought it was about time I went to the doctor. I haven't been in years because you know if you feel fine why go? Right?

I don't have insurance and no I am not thrilled about Obama care so don't even go there. I am finding out what Glenn Beck and others were talking about then they said price shopping for health care is a good thing.

I was going to go to the health department, but I asked them for an estimate and they told me it would be $100 dollars and a long wait to see a doctor. I called my old family doctor I was able to get a appt the same week and it cost me $69. Good deal huh?

Ok so anyway, I went to the doctor and she scolded me for not having been in a while and I let her. How do you tell some one you can't do regular check ups, because it is very expensive to do that? Oh well anyway, she did her thing and was able to tell me she didn't feel any lumps, but she did say that they did feel a bit firmer and heavier than they should. So she recommended a mamogram. She wants me to go to a place near her office but I'm not so sure it is a good thing despite a program that they have that might help us pay for it.

So I decided to do some price checking. The place she wants me to go is going to cost between $325-350 and that doesn't include the guy who reads the darn thing. I checked another place and they said $275. That's better, but still does not include reading it. I called yet another place and I think we have a winner. $250 and that includes the guy to read the thing. Winner!

Well let you know how things further shake out.

XOX