I am so sorry that you have to go through this, but there are some great people on here with a lot of information and words of encouragement. Hopefully you'll be at an early stage. There's so much they can do right now. My pulmonologist told me that just in the last 3 years they've come so far with treatment options. January 5th I woke up in the middle of the night and started coughing up blood, I went to the emergency room and they did a CT scan to find a very large mass on my lung, obviously it was thought to be lung cancer. In the meantime they also found cancer on my intestine. They scheduled bronchoscopy and all of it turned out to be a huge massive infection. Actually two infections, I had Klebsiella pneumonia and I just found out about a week ago I have MAC, which is short for Mycobacterium Avium Complex which is a very rare and dangerous lung infection that can cause cavities or holes in your lung. I have one, it's 3.2 cm. I see infectious diseases tomorrow, surgery on the intestine on Saturday. It's just one day at a time!! Hang in there, ask tons of questions and be gentle with yourself. It's okay to cry, it's okay to laugh too. As a matter of fact laugh as much as possible. ❤️