Oh, I thank you for you response, it is incredibly helpful to hear others' experiences. My 3 largest nodules doubled in the past 7 years and doctor says they are not solid. but mostly ground glass and very low grade. He is thinking that the worst that could happen would be a doubling again over the next 7 years but they could also slow. Meantime, we will be doing CT scans every 6-12 months. It is the new way of things, I realize, and I am glad surgeons are more hesitant to chop up parts of women's bodies than they had ben in the past but it is weird to 'live with' cancer...please tell me about your surgery, was it minimally invasive, did they need to remove an entire lobe? ..one reason to do an earlier surgery - for me - is surgeon says i would lose just 1% lung function on two lobes and 3% on a third lobe...how has your recovery been? how is your breathing? Are you relieved?

suraleah