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VATS approach for lung nodule surgery: How was your recovery? Pain?
Lung Cancer | Last Active: Dec 30, 2025 | Replies (29)Comment receiving replies
@mamajite Find an N95 that has a gasket to wear. It is easier to breathe.
I caught Covid four weeks after my first VAT surgery. I don't know how, because I isolated myself. Fortunately, I was fully vaccinated and just took the antiviral and was fine.
Better to be selective about the people you have around you!
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@vic83 I'm really sorry that happened to you. Yes - I have a whole closet full of various types of respirators now. They really work to keep you healthy! COVID is especially tricky bc it can hang in the air like smoke. So even if a room is empty - if the air is stale and someone sick was in their before you, you can get infected. My aunt had a lobectomy and caught pneumonia afterward (she was going out to restaurants and such.) And she ended up back in the hospital. Thankfully she's ok now. I remember you also have multifocal lung cancer. Do you have a targetable mutation? I have germline T790M.