Jennedy

@allie0318 I'm sorry for the loss of your father. Please forgive yourself self. My brother was a cardiologist and said sometimes, the patient would wait...for the loved one to fall asleep, get a coffee, step in the hall to take a call. He knew.

@huj123 The side effects from the radiation are gone now. It took several weeks on steroids. I also wish there was some way other than a scan to see whether or not the therapy is working. Patience has never been my strong suit. I am trying to work on that. Keep us posted!

@huj123 I was 61 when diagnosed with Stage IV nsclc this past June. I had started going to physical therapy for shoulder pain. I had had an xray and MRI of my shoulder and neck and was told it was my neck causing the pain. In the middle of ame back inconclusive. The second was EBUS, which is a broncoscopy guided by ultrasound. We knew it was adenocarcinoma after that. I had a PET scan and that is when it was determined to be in my shoulder blade as well. While we waited for the biomarker results, I had 10 radiation treatments to the main lung tumor and my shoulder. It helped immensely with my shoulder pain. And my lung as well. But I did end up with difficulty swallowing and radiation pneumonitis (kind of like pneumonia but caused by the radiation). Those side effects depend on the location of the tumor in your lung. And minecwas in the right lower lobe. It totally caught us off guard too. Will be thinking of you and your mom. Jenny