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txtrisha55 said:

Glad for the appt with Dr Lea for 2nd opinion.
I really am glad that you could get in to see her. I do not know how she is with others but for me, my family and my best friend, Dr. Lea is the best. She would sit and go over all the questions we had and answer them. She has a great bed side manner too. It helps when you like the drs that treat you. Of course, if it is new and you have not done a second opinon, I didn't, I was lucky that the 1st Dr was good. If you do have to go through treatment (chemo), the staff (chemo nurses) at UT SW are good too. Everyone has a private room with TV, DVD player, they have a snack room and warm blankets. It was not that bad an environment. A co-worker of mine went through Ovarian Cancer as I was finishing up my treatment she just started hers. She went to a different Dr at UT SW but had the same nurses and chemo nurses that I did. She liked the hospital, nurses and chemo nurses. My best friend said that if she ever has to go through this she will be going there.
If you want to read up on her here is the link to her bio
http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/fis/faculty/45963/jayanthi-lea.html

I will be praying for you to get good results from the second opinion and if treatment is suggested that it truns out ok for you. trish

txtrisha55 said:

So what town are you in
I travel some in Texas so what town are you located in or near? 100 miles south of Dallas covers a lot of area. trish

txtrisha55 said:

I know exactly where you are at.
My family went to an Indian Powwow in a smaller town in that area. We stayed at the new Best Western in Woodway. Very Very Very nice hotel. My grandson loved the giant fishtank in the lobby with all the big colorful fish in it. They also have a indoor swimming pool that they all went swimming in. We did not do anything in Woodway but I do know where it is. trish

txtrisha55 said:

Good LUck with your
Good LUck with your appointment here. If it is decided that you do take your treatment here in Dallas, let me know. I can come sit with you during treatment if you need someone. I would say we could meet the day you have your appointment but I think that would be to much effort. Meeting new people when you are already having to meet with new Drs. Hopefully you will have someone with you so they can listen and ask question and you are not coming up here by yourself. Let me know how it goes. I did click on to Friend you so we can email through here. trish

txtrisha55 said:

Straight up I-35
Good news is that it is a straight up shot up I-35. Traffic is bad up here in Dallas in the mornings, so give yourself some extra time. Once you hit Dallas you want to follow the signs that point towards Denton, but once you get pass downtown you will take the Inwood exit and turn right. Go pass all the medical buildings and Under Harry Hines Blvd. The next light (across from the Salvation Army Thrift Store) will be the entrance into the Cancer Center. Turn left. It is only valet parking and it cost $5.00. Go to the 2nd floor and sign in at the front desk and go sit in the big waiting room. They have coffee you can fix.
WOW, on the questions. You have had the hysterectomy but no lymph nodes removed for testing. What kind of cancer did they say it was? That should be on the path report. Did you get copies of all the reports yourself? That is one thing that I would make sure of is that you have the reports. It does help when you have them even if you do not understand words you can look them up on the Internet and get an understanding of things. This is something everyone says to be careful off because what is out there is not your case, so read it but do not take it as fact for you. There are so many questions to ask, stage, grade, what does the NCI (National Cancer Institute) state about your type of cancer, treatments, chemo, and/or radiation?
Should you go back in and have lymph nodes removed for testing? Did or Do you need to have a CA125 blood test done? Did they save any tissue to get a tissue assay done to find out which chemo would be best on your cancer? I did not have one done as I did not know about it. What type of chemo would they want to give you, for how long? What about radiation, external and/or internal? Again I did not have any radiation and I was a stage 3 just had chemo.
You can also go through the message boards here and at the top in the search field type in what question to ask or question to ask the doctor and it will pull up different messages. There are a lot of women on this site that have a lot of information. Hope everything goes well and the second opinion is to do nothing and just watch. My thing was if that is all what are they going to watch? What should you look for? You no longer have any female parts so how can you tell if something is wrong? I go for CT scans every 6 months because Dr Lea said there was no signs she could tell me to look for and she wants to see if something is going on inside me, so she ask for the CT scans and I do a CA125 blood test every 3 months.
Whoever you have with you, have them go in the room with you as the consult, they can at least listen to the conversation, two sets of ears hear different things. Also if you a tech savvy and have a smart phone you can set it to record. My daughter recorded my first session with the Dr. At that time they could not answer a lot of our questions because I had not had the surgery yet just a D&C. After the surgery and the pathology report, we went back and they explained treatment options, chemo trials that were going on, gave advise on what she would do based on the path reports. I took her advice and did not do the trial and just took the chemo she advised. So far so good. Good Luck to you, let me know. trish

Double Whammy said:

Wow
This is such a wonderful outcome for someone seeking advice on this board! I'm so pleased you got the great recommendation you did. Sometimes good things happen in crappy situations.

Good luck with your appointment. I hope you and Trish get to meet.

Suzanne