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Living with lung cancer - Introduce yourself & come say hi
Lung Cancer | Last Active: Sep 25 12:58pm | Replies (1044)Comment receiving replies
@mcleslie- Good morning. It's been over a month since you last posted and that we heard from you. I am hoping that your husband's health has stabilized and that the radiation is working. I am a 22 year lung cancer survivor and know first hand the initial emotions that come with those dreadful three words, "You have cancer." How are you both doing? Has you husband had any further treatments?
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Thank you for checking in. The VA has been simply amazing and thankfully being a Veteran, this is all covered. My husband finished 5 weeks of radiation (69Gy in 23 fractions at 3Gy per) and completed 3 rounds of chemo (port in leg due to SVC), 2 more "mega" doses because everyone keeps saying he is young and can take it. Next up, immunotherapy for a year. Radiologist says he is doing well, and will evaluate by another scan in 3 months but indicates it is working.
So the official diagnosis is T2bN2Mx Stage 3A and most likely stage 3B per records. All I know is that it isn't great... no one really has translated that for us. Frankly I'm not sure I want to know but I guess I should. Right now nothing is operable. He has battled fatigue and nowjust a bit of peeling skin on his chest. We have hope and we don't live CANCER every day. It has been a quick long few weeks. We are coping but struggling financially on only one source of income... denied SS disability but will likely apply again. On to VA benefits compensation.