Cognitive dissonance

[therru]

I went to my first mammography today -- or the first that I've been summoned to. Or so I thought. The nurse said, "You've been here once before?" And I said, yes, but years ago (when I suspected a lump). And she said, no, you were here last year, in March. What? I denied it. She said I had been ID'd by two separate people, so I had to have been. I was flabbergasted. I could remember the first time I went, several years ago. Nothing else. She looked a bit funny at me and asked if I might have forgotten it. I said that I might, but why would I? But when I got home and looked in last year's calendar, there it was. 30 March, 2010. Completely wiped from my brain. How could I forget that, so completely? Creepy.

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