Beach Runner
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Last Thursday I went for my annual mammogram. After viewing the films, the technician told me to go back in the waiting area because she might need to take more pictures. After waiting long enough for the radiologist to look at the film, I figured that everything was okay. Then another technician took me back for an ultrasound. I was a little surprised, but I didn?t get scared until she only did the ultrasound in one area. I went back to the waiting area, visibly shaking. Then I figured they?d do more pictures. When I got called to go to the doctor?s waiting room, I figured that everything was okay since they didn?t do more pictures. At this doctors? office when you go back to the doctor?s examining room, this means that the doctor has already conferred with the radiologist and has your test results.
So when the door opened, instead of the doctor walking in, a technician walked in and said that they needed to do more pictures. I almost fainted. They took pictures of the one area that they had focused on in the ultrasound. Then they took me back to the doctor?s examining room.
As I sat there thirty minutes waiting for her to walk in, I was shaking and literally about to throw up. I was convinced that there was something wrong. She walked in and told me that all of my tests were normal. I asked what all of the ?extra stuff? was for, and she said that (sorry to be so graphic) sometimes the tissue folds when compressed, and they were just double- and triple-checking that this was what had happened in my case.
BTW this is a medical practice that only does breast care. The doctors and radiologists are all women, so they understand how awful it is to sit by the phone waiting for test results. So they tell you to be prepared to be there three hours because you always get all of your test results before you leave the office. That?s nice. Imagine if I had undergone all of those tests and had to wait a week to get the results.
The reason I?m posting all of this is the following: if anything like this ever happens to you, stay calm and don?t freak out like I did. Just because they run all of the extra tests doesn?t necessarily mean that anything is wrong.
So when the door opened, instead of the doctor walking in, a technician walked in and said that they needed to do more pictures. I almost fainted. They took pictures of the one area that they had focused on in the ultrasound. Then they took me back to the doctor?s examining room.
As I sat there thirty minutes waiting for her to walk in, I was shaking and literally about to throw up. I was convinced that there was something wrong. She walked in and told me that all of my tests were normal. I asked what all of the ?extra stuff? was for, and she said that (sorry to be so graphic) sometimes the tissue folds when compressed, and they were just double- and triple-checking that this was what had happened in my case.
BTW this is a medical practice that only does breast care. The doctors and radiologists are all women, so they understand how awful it is to sit by the phone waiting for test results. So they tell you to be prepared to be there three hours because you always get all of your test results before you leave the office. That?s nice. Imagine if I had undergone all of those tests and had to wait a week to get the results.
The reason I?m posting all of this is the following: if anything like this ever happens to you, stay calm and don?t freak out like I did. Just because they run all of the extra tests doesn?t necessarily mean that anything is wrong.
I have known that feeling all to well. Twice. 
