Guess what day this was for me?

ByTamera Alexander
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Mammogram Day! And here’s how it went down . .

Click to see the video on YouTube

What do you do to celebrate this annual milestone? I told the technician what I was going to do right after and she got so tickled, then said she was going to start celebrating her annual “squishing” too.

So tell me, have you had your annual mammogram this year (or whatever procedure you choose health wise to take care of your girls)?

Hey, why not look for ways to celebrate life? Especially these days. Because every day is precious and is numbered by the Lord for each of us. We’re here in this specific space in time for a reason. For a purpose. I’m just grateful we get to share some of our days on this side of heaven . . . together!

Love you, friends,

Tammy (who is posting on one of Becky Wade’s customary days while she’s out of pocket, but shhhh…don’t tell her!)

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Tamera Alexander is a USA Today bestselling novelist and one of today's most beloved authors of inspirational historical romance and women’s contemporary fiction. While being Gram Tam is her current favorite role, she’ll never turn down a stroll through an old cemetery or browsing through antique shops. In These Hills, her newest novel, releases September 2026.

22 Comments

  1. I heard you share this a few years ago and LOVE it!! I have started doing the same to celebrate and just shared the idea with a friend earlier this week! 😉

  3. So, Squishing Day is over! Mine is coming up in three weeks! Did you get your Krispy Kreme?!!
    ❤️

  5. How did you celebrate? I have reread this email a number of times but can’t find what you did.
    I had mine a month ago. I should have celebrated

    1. I wondered the same thing! I went to the comments to see what I missed. I gather from reading the comments that having a Krispy Kreme donut is the celebration, but I do not see that in the post…..

    2. Could you not see the video, Jacqui? I’ll put a link to it in the body of the post too! I ate my Krispy Kremes—after ceremoniously squishing them! 😉

  6. I had mine on Tuesday. It should have been done in March. But Covid 19 prevented it. I knew about hour after test that all was normal in the mammogram. I just went back home and was thankful it was done.

  7. I’m hoping your celebration included a donut! 😉
    My annual mammo. was done in February—shortly before things closed down due to the virus. Whew!
    Such an important screening to have done.
    Now if a Krispy Kreme would be constructed near the medical building, it would be great!

  8. I always refer to it as a “Smashing Experience”. 😂 I don’t celebrate with anything special, but might have to start this tradition! Thanks for the idea.

  9. Let me tell you about celebration…let me tell you what it feels like to have a mammogram and be told you have breast cancer and you must have a bilateral mastectomy…let me tell you what it’s like to be laid naked upon a table and have dye injected into your breasts by a technician, one of the last men to see your breasts still attached to your body…let me tell you about the first time you see yourself in the mirror with drain tubes and incisions…let me tell you about going in for what you thought woud be your final post mastectomy follow up and being told you now have lung cancer…let me tell you about celebrating the fact that if you had not had a mammogram that found breast cancer that required a bilateral mastectomy that meant repeated follow up exams, the odds are the lung cancer would never have been detected until it was too late to stop it. Let me tell you about having a chunk of lung removed followed by 14 weeks of triple doss chemo…that you survived and finally, by the time your hair grew back and some of the feeling returned to your numbed fingers and toes, YOU WERE ABLE TO EAT A DONUT TO CELEBRATE! Let me tell you…getting a mammogram is one of the greatest things in the world so get down on your knees and thank God because there are those of us who will never have the privilege of having a mammogram again. What we do have is life! And that’s better than any donut!

    1. Oh bless you for sharing all this, Nancy! I’m praising God right this minute that you had that mammogram done, which then set the course for finding the cancers. Because as you said, without that mammogram you would likely not still be here. Oh how I wish every woman could hear your story, my friend.

      Each year I post, I have women write me saying that they’re opposed to subjecting their bodies to the radiation that comes with having a mammogram so they don’t get them for that reason. I get their concern, believe me. But oh, the alternatives that could come with that choice to not have it! So thank you for sharing your story!

      I’m celebrating your life and your faith in our Lord as I type this, and that he used that test to extend your days on this earth. One more thing…

      I often hear women talk about having a “bad hair day.” But I stopped using that phrase years ago when a dear friend of mine underwent chemo for breast cancer and lost her hair. She looked over at me one day and said, “Oh, what I wouldn’t do for a bad hair day!” She was smiling when she said it, not complaining. Her faith and her optimism were so humbling—and encouraging. Just as yours is.

      Again, thanks for sharing your journey with us.

  10. I love your idea! Well….I am actually 2 years late but I do have an appointment at the end of July. Seems like I take care of everyone else and I don’t take the time for myself. I take my sister to dr sometimes when her husband has to work then I take my Mom to all her dr app. and I go with my husband a lot. (He’s had metastasized renal cancer for almost 10 yrs.) But I think I don’t need to put it off any longer.

    1. Good on that July appointment, Brenda! And yes, you need to take care of yourself too, for sure. I’m so sorry you and your husband had that cancer journey for almost ten years! That’s such a hard road. Yet I know that every road God allows us to walk down is a road he’s walking with us. He’s so faithful. Big hugs from my corner of Franklin…

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