(BPT) - Adrianne Jouet will never forget the sound: "Huh."

It was just one syllable from the mammogram technician, but in that moment, the 42-year-old mother of three knew something was wrong. When the tech started an ultrasound, Jouet immediately saw it too—a mass on the screen.

"Your mind goes to the worst place instantly," Jouet recalls. "But I also knew I'd been doing everything right—following my doctor's orders, getting screened every six months because of my family history. If this was cancer, at least we'd caught it early."

What followed was a perfect storm of challenges. Scheduling a biopsy during the height of the pandemic proved difficult. Then Hurricane Ida knocked out power across New Orleans, where Jouet lived, threatening to destroy her biopsy results. When the results fi

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