My granmother hid hers for a decade... had surgery last year. this year the found something else and she has to do a biopsy.

I think what it comes down to is that I can't have *this dr* do this exam. I really trust and like her and for her to do that - she would lose the trust. she'd become an abuser. and I can't let that happen. I want to say she's the only MD in the current clinic (having just moved in to this one) and the others are ND. I hate these exams and hate crying through them and feeling like i'm reliving the r***** of the past. And the feel tends to last a week.
more so, if they did decide that there is something to be concerned about, i really don't see how i'd get therough a mamogram. i really don't.
(i know there are things in our lives that we say that -and don't have the strenght until we really have to face them). right now i just don't see how.
I know i'm repeating myself a lot in this thread.... i'm just freaking out.

As for the medical recalls - here (in my experience) we don't get notified at all. You don't make an appointment, oh well. There's no reminders. Only if there's something wrong with a lab will you get called.