My mother has always been the type of person who avoided going to the doctor at all cost regardless of how sick she got. She's your average uninsured American. One day while at work she was wiping down all the stainless steel appliances and with one swipe of a wall she cut her finger open from one side of the thumb to the other. She had no choice but to go to the ER. They stitched her up and sent her on her way. The hospital she went to has a program for uninsured people so she took advantage of that and applied. She honestly didn't think she would qualify but thank God she did. Now as I previously stated before she avoided seeing a doctor at all cost. My mom figured since she hadn't had a physical since 1988 she would go in for a full checkup. It was a routine checkup (blood, urine and pap smear) When they asked for her family medical history she told them her mother(my grandmother) had been diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 50 so they naturally sent her in for a mammogram since she also hadn't had one. A month later she received a letter asking her to come in to talk with the doctor. She was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer. She had the cancer removed from her breast, did radiation treatment and also took chemo pills. So I call this a Blessing in Disguise because had she not cut her thumb open she would've have seen a doctor and they wouldn't have found her cancer and Lord only knows what would have happened. God is Good.

Anonymous
Corpus Christi, TX