Is this where I go to introduce myself? I couldn't figure that out ! Here goes;
I went for my annual check up last April and my husband said make sure you have them check that cough. I did. It was cancer. Had the upper right lobe removed in July and underwent chemo through to December. Had a bad reaction to the last Cisplatin and so I never completed the final chem. I have been experiencing different pains here and there and it makes me jumpy thinking "the cancer is back".However, It's gall stones this time. My left arm also burns, but they can't find anything wrong. Okay, so I am going to go on vacation and in case this thing comes back I want to go and enjoy myself with my husband while I feel good.
My first CT came back clean but the breast mammogram is suspicious (oh boy). I had breast cancer back in 2010 and when the lung cancer came in 2016 the biopsy showed evidence of both cancers but they decided to go with the more dominant lung cancer . This way they didn't have to called the breast cancer a stage 4 which meant it had spread of course. Initially the lung tumor appeared very small 2.4cm from the first scan. It ended up being nearly 5cm when they removed it. It was tangled up in the scar tissue left behind from the breast cancer radiation and a surgery that was set to take 2.5 hours actually took over 8 hours. Some say the lung cancer may have been caused by the breast cancer radiation (not sure). Some say the radiation was not needed for my breast cancer (overkill) but that is another topic.
I am here because I occasionally have questions and I seem to have no where to go for answers that don't appear standard. I seem to be given these cookie cutter responses that never commit or satisfy my need to know something. Why am I considered cured of something that only gives me a 30 % chance of surviving the next 5 years from? Cured is not the best word to use. I am here to read what others have to say and listen in general. Just to learn at this time is going be my goal.
