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Living with lung cancer - Introduce yourself & come say hi
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@rebur1951. Gosh, you and he have really gone through a lot. All I can tell you is to slow down--especially mentally and emotionally and do what is most important right now--whatever that is. Have been through similar situations in the past and learned that the more you can right now go with the flow, the better you will cope. Kind of like not swimming against a rip tide. Swim with it and you do come out better than if you fight it. Will be keeping you in my thoughts and prayers. I'm hear because of a lobectomy in my right lower lung to remove a cancerous tumor. Mercifully it had NOT spread to lymph nodes, or surrounding tissue. There is just me and four rescue dogs now, but when I had a family, I recall ho it seemed at times the entire structure of my life was falling to pieces., but it didn't and eventually worked out okay.
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Thanks been going with the flow... its been one day at a time... things have been put off that should not of been because of all this and a lot has went to "hell in a hand basket" so to speak... sitting out some things till October holding my breath all will fall into place if does a lot of things will be easier hopefully...
We knew from start surgery was not an option - in fact he was still in biopsy when Dr. came out and told his dad and I it was cancer we did not even have to wait for a dr/office visit for results ast the CT-Scans and PET scans still had to be done ... but the whamy came when the PET Scan showed the involvement with lymph nodes within chest The Surgeon immediately ruled out surgery or radiation because of the scattered sites... and then found a swollen one in arm pit they biopsied it first and showed cancer so did not move on to the Supraclavicular - arm pit one by the end of 12 weeks of 1 week 2 chemos/immunology followed by 2 weeks of 1 chemo it had shrunk down became stable as all the rest That 12 weeks was fun It was Dec-Apr. all good Indiana winter - Tuesday's was his dads dr/possible blood transfusion and then Friday was his day for dr/infusion and his Ct's were scheduled on Monday's so his dad would have Wed/Thurs to recover fro the dr/transfusion
They just do not want this breaking through the skin if at all possible and afraid of going at this moment and a possibility of not getting it all if it boils down to having to have the Supraclavicular lymph node surgically removed... says ins between "a rock and a hard place"
All will work out one way or the other - just got to trust in God to provide and care but its all in God's hands and he knows what he is doing... Nothing is Impossible through him Impossible = I'm possible