I knew I should have tried to call before today. But I had no idea what the phone number was. I kept hoping they would mail a reminder or call and remind me. They usually remind you. They don’t want you to miss, why didn’t they remind me? I have a good memory. I’m the champion at that game. I’m pretty sure it was supposed to be today, maybe I’m remembering something else.
I spoke to someone at 2:00. My appointment was 8:00 this morning. I rescheduled it for September 14th. It’s on a Friday so I don’t have to take a day off of school. It’s so difficult to get a substitute. That’s not true, it easy to get a sub. It’s difficult to take the necessary time to plan for a sub. It sure would have been nice to get it over with today, but that’s what I get for waiting until the last minute.
I’ve only had one other mammogram. Last year I told my OB-GYN doctor about my maternal grandmother’s second bout with breast cancer and the breast cancer diagnosis for my paternal grandmother during my yearly checkup. I’ve known for over twenty years that my chances of getting breast cancer were only at high risk if my mom got it. It didn’t matter to the doctors that my grandma had breast cancer at 64. They would only send me for an early mammogram if my mom had it, so I figured I would wait until I was 40 just like everyone else. My doctor decided to be cautious. Since it was showing up again in my grandma, I should get a baseline mammogram. At 34, I had my first mammogram.
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