It all started the evening of October 25th -- feeling a hardened lump in my left breast the size of a golf ball. Relatively small, no pain or discomfort whatsoever. First thought -- high density tissues are pretty common, but, just in case, decided to get a mammogram.
Turns out this is not an easy feat -- the hospital requires a referral from your primary care doctor (no one cares that I have a PPO and don't need one). As luck would have it, I didn't have a primary care doctor at that moment. The one I always went to at Fenway Health left the practice back in March 2022, but they forgot to notify me, and now I needed to start from scratch and find a new primary care. For some reason, they wouldn't let me switch to another doctor within the practice.
Several days of phone calls and help from an insurance rep to find a doctor that took new patients on now -- and, with my luck, the only doctor available was the one that totally missed my pregnancy by three months 10 years ago!
While I was on the phone, George called around to schedule a first available walk-in mammogram at Lahey, and later we were able to confirm the referral from the new primary care.
