Kelda Poynot Breast Center of Acadiana Testimonial

KP: My name is Kelda Poynot, I am a homeschool mom and tutor. I’ve been coming to the breast center now since they opened.

BCA:  How did you hear about the Breast Center of Acadiana?

KP: I was referred by my doctor to the Breast Center, for my mammogram, my annual mammogram.

BCA: What was your overall experience at the Breast Center of Acadiana?

KP:  It’s very welcoming,  I don’t feel hurried or rushed when I come in here. I don’t feel like I am being herded like cattle. I just come in, and they make me feel at home, and help me feel relaxed, and then we go and have the mammogram, and every tech that I’ve ever had here has just been amazing, very thorough, extremely professional. And then when they opened up the Youngfield site – that’s just been very convenient. So I had my first mammogram at that site this year, and again, same, same experience just wonderful, but just on a smaller scale there which I really liked even more, because I didn’t- I just didn’t feel like we were crowded. ….

BCA: How was your experience with the Staff at the BCA?

KP: The staff, they’re amazing. Any kind of follow up  that they’ve needed to make. Professional, well trained, again you know, you want to go someplace where you trust the doctor for whatever is needed by your doctor. But anyone from when you walk in the front door all the way through the whole process, because you may never see that doctor, because he is just going to read your mammogram, and so every, every element of that is what I really appreciate about this facility. Because from the time you walk in you’re welcomed, you’re put at ease, this is the process, and I know people  who’ve had to come back for you know biopsies, and they’ve had to come back for  another read or an ultrasound, or different things like that, and they’re just very thorough and I think that is what I appreciate most about it.

BCA: Why would you suggest the Breast Center of Acadiana?

KP:The staff, and the doctors here have always just been amazing to me, to anyone that’s ever come here, and I just feel like I would recommend that. Just to say I know they are going to do the best job they can for whatever … you know, involving the breast, whatever is needed. You know, whether it’s just a routine mammogram or whether there’s other issues going on that they need to have further testing or you know, information found.

BCA: What would you tell a friend that is fearful of getting their mammogram?

KP: That I’ll go with them [laughter]. I’ve done that before, it’s that important. Having friends that are breast cancer survivors it’s, it’s just so important, and I don’t want them to be fearful of  what they’re going to face. I tell them exactly the process that happens, you know this is, these are the steps you go through to get into the examining room, this is what’s going to happen once you are in the examining room. And I’ve gone with, with friends before, to make sure that: one, that they got there [laughter] and that they followed through with what they needed to do, because it is important.