Getting the slides for second opinion

My Uro mailed mine right to John Hopkins, when I requested. I heard from JH within two weeks - I was surprised at the quick turn around. Actually the pathology at the hospital matched John Hopkins' report.

I had no problem at all..they had them all packed and ready to either mail or take with me...bubble wrap included. They just needed a heads up as to when i needed them. And by the way i never went through the Uro..went directly to the Pathology department for the slides and Imaging for the CT scans and reports.
pat

If you are filling out the form that you're supposed to give to the doctor or hospital, they should mail them for you. Your uro should also send all of your records to them.

I picked up my own and took them with me because I was going to two different bladder cancer hospitals in two days (University of Colorado and MD Anderson) but I am pretty sure they came in a pack that I could have sent via fedex by just dropping in one of their envelopes.

Mike

Like Ernest Hemingway's quote: "One cat just leads to another" -- except in my case, it's questions!!

I got my pathology report. NP was right -- it only says high grade. I guess the second opinion is even more important now!

I called the pathology department at the hospital and was told I needed to come in and sign a release. Okay, makes sense. They asked where I wanted them sent and I said Hopkins. Did I have all the information?

I found a PDF file on the JHU website and started filling it out -- will have to finish it later. Do I just hand that to them and expect them to do the rest? I have this image of me being handed a box of glass slides and heading to the post office, trying to figure out which priority mailing box is the right side and whether to use packing peanuts or bubble wrap. That's not going to happen, is it?

To complicate matters, we're heading out of town tomorrow for two weeks. If I don't do this now, will the slides likely be available in two weeks to do this at that point?