On 2/17/2011 7:20 PM, Pat Ferguson wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm just writing to ask you to please pray, as I'm having another 
> Mamogram on Monday.
>
> In January I had a Mamogram, and something wasn't right, and they 
> found a nodgel on my left breast. I forgot how large it is, but they 
> want to take some additional pictures through Mamography, and then if 
> necessary, they will do an UltraSound. This will happen on Monday 
> morning, February 21st.
>
> It was suppose to happen last Monday, but they failled to tell me that 
> they needed results from my previous Mamograms in 2005 and 2007. We 
> drove all the way to Brookings to find that they couldn't do the 
> tests. I spoke with my doctor's nurse, and she told me no one told her 
> that they needed the films from the previous Mamograms. This morning, 
> I spoke with a supervisor in scheduling, at the hospital, and she told 
> me that it is standard protocall for any doctor's nurse to ask for 
> previous test results in a situation like this.
>
> I had this first Mamogram done on the 19th of January, and it was at a 
> Mobile unit here in town  from Avera Hospital in Mitchell. It took 
> them three weeks to get the results back from the Mamogram. When I got 
> a letter last Tuesday, it mentioned that I need additional tests, and 
> that I need to speak with my doctor. I tried three times to call him, 
> and no one ever returned my call. Finally, I had my PA Jil, her  nurse 
> call his office, and his nurse, Mandy called me back. She told me that 
> he wanted to talk to me. Finally, he called me, and he hadn't even 
> looked at the letter from the Radiologist in Mitchell. He read it 
> while I was on the phone with him. He said we needed to schedule an 
> UltraSound, but he never told me they would be doing another Mamogram. 
> I was shocked when I found that out on the 14th of February.
>
> I'm going to talk to my doctor, and ask him to plan on talking to me 
> after the tests and I hope and pray that he will give me the results 
> that day, as they will be available to him right after the tests are 
> done.
>
> Needless to say, I'm changing doctor's as soon as the new OBGYN comes 
> to this hospital in May.
>
> I'm believing that nothing is wrong and that they will not find 
> anything at all. God is the healer.
>
> Please pray that the hospital is efficient, and that I get to talk to 
> my doctor before I leave Brookings.
>
> Thanks so much for praying.
>
> Love and Blessings,
>
> Pat Ferguson
Hi Pat,

I've had one or two ultrasounds done on my breasts, but that's as far as 
it went.  May The Lord give you peace.