Hello. I am Angela and I am from NE Iowa. When I was thinking of things I wanted for my 50th birthday, a carcinoid tumor definitely was not on my list! It has really been a whirlwind process the last few months. I am not sure when I was first diagnosed with this tumor, but it became very real when I was told I needed to have surgery! In my mind I was thinking “ok, I’ll schedule it a few months out so I have time to accept it. “ I said I wanted to put if off as long as I could and was told, “Ok, your surgery is in 3 weeks. I have never had major surgery so it was a double whammy when I found out I was having the lower lobe of my left lung removed.
I am one moth out from surgery now and feeling good.