Oh dear,
I also have my annual agony appointment the 17th of October. Wonder what will happen this time!
I had the beginnings of cervical cancer in 1997 and had a laser operation. I have to go yearly to have it checked out. That has been fine so far, touch wood, but mammography is a different game. For the last three years there has been strange dramas involved.
A new technician took the mammo the year before last. I went out after my mammo, got dressed and was putting on my jacket when the doctor came tearing out of her office like a bat out of hell. She called: "Come back, come back!" I felt like I was facing the Guillotine when I sat down in her office. She told me a huge tumour had been detected on the mammo.
I had to have one and a half hour of tests and X-rays and echography, while I waited for the call of Death. After another hour of waiting when three doctors went over the results, I was called in.
It was a mistake! I was clear! The new technician had made such a mess! Furious, I told them I would sue for mental anguish. They calmed me down and reprimanded the technician, then offered me chocolate and coffee. (Typical French!)
Then it happened again! Now the doc found a lump in my breast, sweated with fear and I went through the whole 2 hour hell again. It was nothing! I told her I would end up with something awful if this went on every year, just because of the stress.
I dread my appointment, it´s good we are there for each other!