Big boobs saved my life! (well, sort of...)
When I was six I my best friend Emma turning round to me on our walk to school and whispering conspiratorially "you know, your mum has big boobs so that means you'll get big boobs too" I remember turning round in horror to gaze upon my mum and her very buxom cleavage before bursting into tears. Poor mum had no idea why. Of course, that was when I was young, and had little idea that rather than being a big (36E cup) inconvenience, having curves could actually be a very good thing indeed!

However, it wasn't until last summer when I went to Cornwall that they really shone, so to speak... I went body boarding for the first time with some friends. I was a bit useless at it, but am a good swimmer and was generally enjoying the day. Then I caught a bad wave and managed to get myself and the board twisted up under water with the front of the board (which was made of thin wood) dug into the sand whilst the sea pushed me into the other end, completely winding me and leaving me sat in the shallows clutching my chest and wheezing like an asthmatic octogenarian.

It hurt. A lot. I whinged for a bit and the pain dulled, I rolled down the wetsuit and couldn't see any damage so decided all was OK. However, later the bruising started to come out and by the evening my whole chest had a giant purple stripe across it and I noticed a lump. Lumps are not the sort of thing you want to find of course, and I wasn't sure whether it was a result of the board or whether it had been there before and I had only just noticed it.

Went to NHS Direct clinic, doctor thought it was an 'abnormal growth', went to my GP, she found another two lumps (oh no) and felt that this couldn't have been because of the board. Not good...

Spent two weeks walking round worried before seeing a specialist who heard the story, took a look and declared I was very lucky to have big boobs (I'm pretty sure he used more technical wording, but I'm paraphrasing) as he was sure the lumps were a blood clots (they were, they checked with an ultrasound) and that had I not been so well endowed in chest department, I probably would have broken a couple of ribs and risked puncturing a lung - hurrah boobs!
( hanabanana, Fri 7 May 2010, 14:39, 2 replies)

Boobs
Is there anything you can't do!!
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Fri 7 May 2010, 15:10, closed)

It is a theme
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7318788/Womans-size-D-breast-implants-save-her-from-gunshot.html
( BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Fri 7 May 2010, 15:12, closed)