LUNG CANCER LIFE:

More tests ahead of me. Good news is that the scare of "pancreatic" cancer,mentioned in my last post,was NOT found by the MRI test.The doctors other diagnosis of liver cancer was also ruled out.That is Great.The three weeks of wondering about those two fatal diseases put me in a daze.I know that Pancreatic cancer kills you fast.I started to look at life in minutes and hours. Since the doctors have ruled out those two diseases they remain stumped as to a lot of my symptoms. I still show a rise in the CEA blood test.That is the test they use to determine if a cancer is in you. The waves of nausea I get,accompianed by the headaches and dizziness for 3 years has them wondering.I have been given all the tests for abdominal conditions,and they also came out negative. Now the doctor wants me to have a brain CT scan.They think some of my symptoms represent a Brain Tumor. All of these tests are quite concerning to me.They have told me that there is a risk associated with too many xray...

Lung Cancer was the first diagnosis.When the surgeon told me that he had to remove part of my lung due to lung cancer,my life passed before me.All I could think about was my loss to my loved ones.I worried how they would get over it.I did not think,"poor me". The last three years I have spoken on here about all the emotional pain that goes with this.I put my life on hold and went faithfully to every follow up appointment,waiting for the surgeon to tell me that the cancer was gone. He has never told me that the cancer will not come back but only that I do have a fatal disease and that he is on the ready to go ahead with chemo or radiation,if necessary when he sees me. I lived my life in four month stages waiting for the final diagnosis of Lung Cancer returning and taking my life for good. I have been blessed, as most with this disease are not so fortunate to have had this time. My cancer was caught early by coincidence. My ekg had showed I had had a heart attack.Upon furt...