Turning Point: Women's Health (Virginia)

My name is Virginia. My sister died from breast cancer, and my mother has also battled breast cancer.

It had been 20 years since my last mammogram. In February, I received a mammogram thanks to the YWCA Women's Health.

I knew I needed to get screened, but I was uninsured and could never get through the hospital system on my own. Thankfully a friend referred me to the YWCA.

As much as I tried to ignore it, I had been having breast pains for quite a while by the time I called the YWCA for a free mammogram. There was a spot on the mammogram that they were concerned about, so the YWCA paid for me to receive diagnostic tests to determine if it might be cancer.

I wasn't diagnosed with cancer, but they wanted to see me back in six-months rather than letting the abnormality go an entire year unchecked. The YWCA covered the costs of both the initial diagnostics and the six-month follow-up.

Everything has come back clear so far, and I'm so thankful to have had the YWCA as a resource to protect my health. Without the YWCA, I wouldn't have been able to receive these screenings.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• nonprofit
• YWCA
• Dallas
• women's
• health
• mammogram