Living with lung cancer - Introduce yourself & come say hi

@mbach1074 - Welcome to Mayo Connect and good morning. My lung cancer was found much like yours! I bumped into something and after a couple of weeks, when the pain hadn't subsided I had an Xray- It was very obvious that I had a lung tumor and not broken rib. I'm glad that you are already in treatment. What kind and stage of lung cancer do you have?

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My name is Colleen also and have stage 4 lung cancer. Meet Mrs. Trait and she suggested this sight. Had 8 treatments of chemo (pemetrexed, carboplatin and pembrolizumab every 21 days.) get sick 8-11 days. Decided to take 3 weeks treatment off trying to recover from last infusions. Think it would be helpful talking to patience with same diagnosis.

@richcolleen- Welcome to Mayo Connect. I'm glad that you found us and there are many to talk with on the Lung Cancer Group. I have stage 4a multifocal adenocarcinoma of the lungs for the past 10 years and 10 years before that had a fast growing adenocarcinoma. I am a mentor for Mayo Connect's lung cancer group. I have not had immunotherapy but have had regular, nasty chemo.
There are many people here who are taking Keytruda. I hope that they will chime in and answer any questions that you might have about this drug, including, @liz8716, @bentrivercarla
What kind of cancer do you have and have you had any other treatments? You must have been devastated to hear that you had lung cancer. I know that I was. But we march on, don't we? Are you feeling better during your "off" time?

Type of cancer “malignant neoplasms of lung adenocarcinoma” my iPad changes spelling of words. Mrs. Trout who I played mahjong with recommend this site which I’m great full she did.

Sorry I have not updated but fired since radiation has been "stable" with the radiation the neck lymph node as looked and felt like its reduced in size. The last CT was in July and since no longer in the clinical study, no chemo, only immunology KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) every three weeks which he is tolerating very well with no side effects. A CT is scheduled for Oct 2nd.

Me been busy cleaning up 5.3 acres been working every day itrs not raining 6-8+ hours a day made small dent... plus i have tangoed with the dumpster but the dumpster won out. slamming my forehead and nose into it; landing hard on the ground with my right knee... I dusted my self oof walked into house rested for 3 hours and went back to work outside the same day... a couple of scrapes on forehead, nose, did not break of scratch my glasses... did have a side ache for a week or so must of twisted; have a hard head Making head way... A trucker friend came in Wednesday and we have about conquered the front yard weed wacker the yard down with a weed eater with metal blade on it and sawing off seedlings that have sprouted since probably about Nov 2016 when his father no longer mowed the yard and it was the sons responsibility (he done paths only the width of the riding lawn mower) he never even burned the trash he took out to the north only expanded the it from the trash hole to above ground for 5 feet plus.... have the second dumpster about full and waiting for the 3rd 🙁

Things became final on Wednesday the 11th.. waiting for the bank to release the funds only released a mere repentance seven tho it was an escrow account from the title/abstract company... 20th is the release date and soon after I will have a new vehicle factory warrantied... and hen will work on housing... yet to hear from my account 🙁 SO things are looking up if i can survive the clean-up....

@reibur1951- Good morning. I'm so glad to hear that the lymph node has reduced, and feels better. Tangling with a dumpster does not sound like fun and I'm glad that there were only superficial injuries. I'm not sure what you mean by being fired. Do you mean that you no longer qualify for the clinical trial?

Hello @reibur1951,

It is so good to hear from you. I'm sorry to hear of your confrontation with the dumpster. Unfortunately, the dumpster usually wins in these situations, but I'm glad that you are recovered now.

It is really good that your friend is still stable and that his immunology KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) treatments are working well and he is able to tolerate them.

Wishing you well. Will you post again after the CT scan on 10/2?

I am tired from all the clean up work... I had just came in from being in front yard all daydid nto catch the typo and internet has been down since Thursday
till late sometime yesterday afternoon and its been popping on/of and down several times completely since June phone/internet service has been absolutely the pits from centurylink this summer for some reason. Because of the neck lymph node he was taken off of the clinical studies but his Dr. is continuing with the immunology KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) treatments... there may be other clinical studies down the line... he is staying with IU Medical/Simon Cancer center

@reibur1951- I bet that you are tired of all the clean up! I know that he must be feeling disappointing by being eliminated from the trial. And as you said, there might be more down the line! It really helps to have a positive attitude with cancer. There are so many new treatments being explored and being used! KEYTRUDA® is being toted as a life saver for many people and being stable is certainly a great sign. Is he sleeping and eating and drinking well now?