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Tom, thank you so much for your support and advice, it is appreciated more than you know. We have discussed getting a port put in either the end of this week or beginning of next, our Doctor plans on it. She just received a script for hydrocodone yesterday & was able to get the best nights sleep in a week (helped with pain & cough). We're at a brain mri now...I was told it was a staging scan to monitor over treatment & my wife is terrified that it has spread to her brain. It's unbelievably difficult trying to keep her spirits up, but I'm doing my very best. Lots of being strong when we're together & then falling apart when I'm away from her. I greatly appreciate everything, I believe in her, I just wish I could get her to believe in herself right now. Hoping we've turned the corner of the worst of it & our team will pull us through.

Hi Donna, I appreciate your kind words more than you know. I'm hoping she can have the biopsy done in the next two days and begin chemo next week. She's very afraid and its breaking my heart. Trying my best to keep her spirits up but its difficult. She received hydrocodone for her rib pain yesterday and had the best night's sleep she's had in a week...it's also helped a lot with her cough. I will most certainly be in touch, as I feel that I'm falling apart but can't let her know that. I need to hear some kind words of survival, because I cannot bear to think about losing her. Nearly everything online doesn't sound good, but I realize she's young & otherwise healthy, so my hope is she is not a usual case and can spend many many more years with me. We have an MRI of her brain tonight, keeping our fingers crossed that we can battle this. Rosaries and prayers daily...please help if you can.

Hi all... I'm new to this forum & my world is falling apart around me. My 39 year old wife was just diagnosed with stage 4 adenocarcinoma yesterday. Austin Cancer Center made it a point to see us immediately for an oncology appointment when the group of primary care physicians had been taking their time getting something set up. Yesterday we were able to view the results of her PET/CT scan that was done last friday and finally speak with someone that could develop a plan. Seems that she has a growth in the right-center of her lung, as well as one on the right outside portion. It has spread into her rib bone on that side and possibly in her lower back bone. I am crushed, but not as much as she has been. Cancer runs rampant in her family, but no one developed anything as early as she has. I believe that we are trying to set up a biopsy/bronchioscopy for as soon as we can so that the oncologist knows exactly what she is battling. There is some concern that this didn't start in her lung, but alas the scan didn't show other lit up areas. My understanding is her growths don't look typical. Our oncologist wants to start her on chemo right away (next week?) and then radiation later for the tumor in her rib. She is experiencing quite a bit of pain from the rib and the tumor in her lung has produced a second pleural effusion (the first was drained....when they just thought she had pneumonia). I've been reading about genomic testing & my hope is that they can get a tissue sample large enough to do that. My world is falling apart. I'm trying not to read too much on outcomes and trying to remind myself that she is young, strong, and otherwise healthy...all qualities that should make her be able to beat this and send it into remission. Any advice, thoughts, or prayers are most certainly welcome. I cannot see how I can go on without her after 17 years. I'm sitting here crying as she gets some much needed rest. I've been strong for her, trying to keep her hopes alive...but I fall apart when she is not around. Any help is greatly appreciated...