Comments on: Stephanie’s Angels Promote Ovarian Cancer Awareness and Research http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/07/16/stephanies-angels-promote-ovarian-cancer-awareness-and-research/ A website created by Landmark Education Graduates with news about other Landmark Education Graduates and the difference they are making around the world Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:25:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: J.C. http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/07/16/stephanies-angels-promote-ovarian-cancer-awareness-and-research/comment-page-1/#comment-7457 J.C. Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:37:47 +0000 http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/07/16/stephanies-angels-promote-ovarian-cancer-awareness-and-research/#comment-7457 Thank you for your advise Linda.. I am confused if the symptoms show at menopausal age..I am only 23 and I feel something wrong with my body... Thank you for your advise Linda..
I am confused if the symptoms show at menopausal age..I am only 23 and I feel something wrong with my body…

]]> By: Linda Hotchkiss http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/07/16/stephanies-angels-promote-ovarian-cancer-awareness-and-research/comment-page-1/#comment-4863 Linda Hotchkiss Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:59:48 +0000 http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/07/16/stephanies-angels-promote-ovarian-cancer-awareness-and-research/#comment-4863 It's good to hear that you're involved in teaching people about getting an early diagnosis. I felt worse and worse for many years before getting my Stage 4 diagnosis in June of '07. I underwent surgery at UCLA on Aug 1 of '07, and had gone markedly downhill in those last two months. Thanks to the team of young Drs. and their Prof., Robin Farias Eisner, I'm still clean a year later. I feel better than I have since, I don't know, maybe 2000? I'd been going to all types of doctors all that time, trying to find out what was wrong. I finally got a new GP, Dr. Robt. Gong here in Cambria, CA, and he suggested an abdominal CT scan. Girls, if you're wondering, go get yourself one of those. They couldn't find it with pap smears, blood tests, nothing. Looking at that CT scan photo, there it was. By then, it was a foot and a half long, including the ovaries and the uteris. Don't sit around and wait for somebody to figure it out, like I did. Request a CT scan if you're feeling tired and bloaty for over a few months. There are new methods for discovering this cancer coming along all the time, like the CA-125 blood test. It's not always correct, but it's a tip to keep looking. Doctors don't know everything, and they're busy people. Ovarian cancer sneaks up on us. It hits most often during or after menopause. So, if you're in that category, get aggressive. If I'd given up, I wouldn't be here now. And, we all know how important it is to Be Here Now! Hugs to all, Linda It’s good to hear that you’re involved in teaching people about getting an early diagnosis. I felt worse and worse for many years before getting my Stage 4 diagnosis in June of ‘07. I underwent surgery at UCLA on Aug 1 of ‘07, and had gone markedly downhill in those last two months. Thanks to the team of young Drs. and their Prof., Robin Farias Eisner, I’m still clean a year later. I feel better than I have since, I don’t know, maybe 2000? I’d been going to all types of doctors all that time, trying to find out what was wrong. I finally got a new GP, Dr. Robt. Gong here in Cambria, CA, and he suggested an abdominal CT scan. Girls, if you’re wondering, go get yourself one of those. They couldn’t find it with pap smears, blood tests, nothing. Looking at that CT scan photo, there it was. By then, it was a foot and a half long, including the ovaries and the uteris.
Don’t sit around and wait for somebody to figure it out, like I did. Request a CT scan if you’re feeling tired and bloaty for over a few months. There are new methods for discovering this cancer coming along all the time, like the CA-125 blood test. It’s not always correct, but it’s a tip to keep looking.
Doctors don’t know everything, and they’re busy people. Ovarian cancer sneaks up on us. It hits most often during or after menopause. So, if you’re in that category, get aggressive. If I’d given up, I wouldn’t be here now. And, we all know how important it is to Be Here Now!

Hugs to all, Linda

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