Thursday, January 13, 2005

breast exam!

haha, that got your attn, or at least the few guys that read my posts. last night i did my first breast exam on another girl. actually, i did two! first i thought it would be tougher for guys to do a breast exam on a woman, but then at least they've seen women with tops exposed before. it was just....strange...to have the teacher lecture to you, and 5 min later, drop her top naked. very very odd. but when it came to actually doing the breast exam (which involves observing her chest and movement of her breasts, which i've never seen a dr do before; checking her armpit lymph nodes, and finally palpating her breasts thoroughly), it wasn't that bad. one girl, she's a nursing student in her 20's, claimed she had "small breasts"....if you call that small, i have no idea what mine are!! =P this other girl was skinnier, and claimed she had "pendulous breasts" (aka droopy breasts). and yea...they were...like water balloons. sorry for the bad analogy! she said she used to be a double DD, lost wt, and so now she has stretch marks on them. we had to practice first on a silicon-filled practice breast that had lumps hidden it it, and see what we could find. it was funny looking at guys put the fake breast on their chest and feel around it. =) in a month, you will get to hear all about the gyne pelvic exam....lucky y'all!!