A smear test every day for twenty years

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-62162624

Holy crap.

Why? How? Why? I mean, I know why. But that's… incredible dedication to science, and belief in your husband, and also — every day?

To be fair, people who are good at doing it make it barely feelable. But I agree, what dedication.

Yeah, he was probably pretty good at it by year three or so.

One nurse I had a smear test from, I doubt I'd have ended up with any cervix left after a few weeks…

I must have an overly large or insensitive foof because my smears have never hurt….

amazing dedication and think of the number of lives saved by them!

What a woman..
she really took one for the team there didn't she..

What level of coercion was there, I wonder?

What a good woman.
Smear leave me sick and shaky enough as it is once every 3 years!

There is that

Theyd have been far more uncomfortable than now too. Everything would have been cold metal.

Amazing really - he's the one who's remembered but he could never have done it without her

I’m so stretched from having my nearly 10 pound baby I don’t even feel anything anymore. So this would be doable for me.

What an amazing legacy they created!

This would be doable for me. I don't mind a smear at all ( and I've had tonnes). I also prefer a metal speculum.

I really hope not 😔