Miriam - Interview 47  

Miriam - Interview 47

Age at Interview: 61
Background: Miriam is a retired housewife. She is married with four adult children. Ethnic background/nationality: White British.

Brief outline:Miriam always attends for screening and one mammogram detected a cyst, which was aspirated. She is pleased all staff in screening units are women.

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Miriam says if she hadn't gone for a routine mammogram, she wouldn't have known she had a cyst. Her faith helped her to stay calm.

 



I received a letter from my doctor, but when I went everything was fine and then later on I felt something there, but apparently I have been told it was a cyst that I had there. Now, if I'd never have went and found out, would I have known? You see? But I wasn't frightened, I had my faith to believe in, I go there, better to find out than leave it till late.

So you went for a mammogram and they found something?

Yeah, yeah.

And they called you back?

They told me to go back to [hospital name], I had to go there and have an injection, you know, where they pull out the stuff and that, and they told me it was a cyst and since that I have little cysts I know, but they still tell me to check.

In terms of breast screening, when you went that time, you went for a screening did you get a letter saying, 'Can you come back, we've found something'?

Yes, yes, the one at [hospital name], I had to go there, and I think it was every three years I think this was, this was then, this was before this one and I had to go down and I had to do a wasaname, and they just wanted to make sure whether they were cysts or not but you see I wasn't frightened of going.

Because some women do worry during that time?

Yeah. See but I wasn't frightened of going and my daughter come with me and, you know, it's, my faith, what I believe in that made me go to them things. I'd rather find out rather find out too late.

So when you were recalled, you went with your daughter?

I went with my daughter.

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