Thank you for answering me. After much research and praying, I am going to call my ob tomorrow and ask to be scheduled for the nodes to be taken this week. I will never rest easy withoIut those nodes. I want the most accurate diagnosis and staging. I'd rather do it before healing too much as this surgery wasn't easy and I don't want to fully recover and have to start all over. My dad did quite a bit of research last night and found this type I have is somewhat rare and often misdiagnosed as benign. It seems to run with endometriosis and gets buried in edometrial tissue. He has found lots of cases where the women proceeded to chemo without the nodes but I cannot let that question be unanswered. I don't want to look down the road 5 years from now and wish we had gone back for the nodes. Hopefully I can get in this week, I'm sure there are openings in surgery as nobody wants to have surgery the week of thanksgiving. I don't care, I just cannot rest knowing those nodes will answer alot of questions.
Oh my goodness, that a year you have had. The reality is depending on how invasive they found, they will have to do a staging surgery... But in my case, they let me heal for two weeks and sent the pathology to two other places - Hopkins and Yale to get second opinions.
Please take care and keep us posted.