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@yvonne55- Hello! My goodness, have you been through a lot! I am very glad that you are doing better. Lung nodules are small clumps of cells in the lungs. They're very common. Most lung nodules are scar tissue from past lung infections. Lung nodules usually don't cause symptoms. They're often found by accident on a chest X-ray or CT scan done for some other reason.
I am hoping that your non-specific lymph node just turns out to be a part of healing. All medicine is double edge swords. If you have a symptom and you have a scan you can see something that you might not want to see. I can't tell you how many times my CT's have picked up scary things that turned out not to be a worry, except for me!
How is your breathing? Do you need oxygen at home?
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Well hello! My breathing is very good. I didn't realize how badly a body can decondition! I was mostly on rest from aug 25 to about nov 22. That's when a temp doctor replaced mine briefly and said get up girl!! My pulse used to be 125-140 just going to the washroom 02 would fall down to 88. So I was scared to move! One day I just had enough and started doing small things....
Now I'm doing housework, I vacuumed today, scrubbed the toilet, laundry etc. I've been building up to this, didnt go nuts in one day. Been grocery shopping and carrying the bags in the house. Last night brushing snow off my car. I am driving again! They determined in hospital I didn't need home 02 but I swore I did. I couldnt take a full breath and felt only half my lungs were expanding. For awhile my 02 said 96 but I had dyspnea. It felt awful. It just kinda went away.
I'm still terrified of a repeat illness because I was doing all these things even in the minutes before my lungs quit on me. When I use that little machine with the ball in it? I can get it to the middle section where the happy face is and get it up to the 3000 point.
I pray this nightmare is over. I feel very lucky!