Hi, My name is Lisa. I know anxiety can eat you alive and cancer is all you can think of , I used to wake up every morning and the first thing I thought was, I have cancer. I couldn't even say the word without crying. Heck, I even wrote letters for my husband and son to find in case I didn't make it. The best thing you can do is talk and ask questions, someone will always have your answers and let you know you are not alone.
The way everything started for me was that, I race cars on the weekend and crashed into the wall and was flown to the hospital for care, during all the tests you go through, they done a CT of my chest and found a suspicious nodule to be followed up in 6 months it started out as a 1 cm solid pulmonary nodule in the superior left lower lobe, with small adjacent nodules. Bronchial wall thickening. My doctor ordered a PET scan in the 6th month. It was positive, so a biopsy was done,
DIAGNOSIS;
Malignant; non-small cell carcinoma, favor squamous cell carcinoma.
I got in the car and screamed all the way home, then when I had got to a point where I could think, I started searching, asking questions and just felt like I needed to talk to people who have been where I am, and it took away a lot of the panic of where I thought it had to be removed NOW or I'd die, I talk to my doctor who said, look cancer is scary but we have come so far in cancer treatment that this is just a bump in the road. My surgery was done in May of last year, they removed the lower left lobe of my lung and 6 lymph nodes, one of which was positive for malignancy. so it turned out to be a stage IIb, so I had 4 rounds of chemo and my next CT was negative. I have another CT scheduled for April.
Through everything I kept remembering that its just a bump in the road and I'm not alone. So if you have any questions that you want to ask please do. If you want to talk we are here, talking seems to help the most for me.