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Christie, welcome to the program.

Hi, Dr. Laura, it's an honor and pleasure to speak with you today.

Thank you.

What can I help you?

Well, I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer last July of 2023.

So I had a full hysterectomy and then six chemotherapy treatments which just ended in February

last month.

Boy, you really, you really had a challenge there. Wow. Yeah. I was very lucky. I caught the

cancer early at stage one, which is unusual for ovarian cancer.

So I was very lucky.

And I was feeling good about completing my chemotherapy treatment and I did very well through the process.

So I had my first surveillance CT scan a week ago, you know, basically to check to see how things are going. And that's part of the follow-up care that you do like

every six months I'm supposed to have the C scan and they found an area of concern during this CT scan.

So now I need to have a pet scan which will tell us

if this area of concern, is in my lymph nodes in my abdomen area in the

iliac area. Yes and it just has me so frightened and I don't want to be overly dramatic about using the term PTSD but when you're waiting to find out if you have

cancer or not it just it's very scary and I know ovarian cancer is a very aggressive cancer.

So now I'm just, I was feeling so good about,

you know, get catching the cancer early, finishing chemo, and now I have to worry again about having

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