Hi Everyone. I'm new to the list though I've been lurking for the last few weeks since my husband's local oncologist called to tell us that the unknown spot which had shown up in a CT scan in July was now more than doubled in the CT scan done in November. I asked him what he thought it was and he very bluntly stated "I think it's lung cancer". Needless to say, I was horrified to hear those words. He was diagnosed just last June with Multiple Myeloma, a blood cancer that destroys the bones and is considered treatable, but uncureable. He is under the care of the Cancer Institute at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City and our local onc follows through on their orders, delivering chemo and weekly blood tests. We live about 3 hours from KU so we needed something local for the daily stuff.
I won't go into his entire history here but will place it in my profile for those who are interested. Suffice it to say, he's been through hell these last months.
We just found out today that the tumor in his lung is squamous cell carcinoma. They want to send him to a cardio/thoracic surgeon and made us an appt. for Dec 29. That seems so far away though it's very possible we'll not keep the appt. Lou (my husband) has had two abdominal surgeries within the last 10 weeks and doesn't feel he can face anymore major surgery. The first one was a bowel resection due to ruptured diverticuli, with resulting colostomy and the second was more of the same.
I just don't know how we'll manage 2 cancers at the same time. They both require totally different chemo treatments and so far, his body has been unable to handle the two different ones they've tried him on for the myeloma. He's so sick and weak. We're to go to KC tomorrow to meet with his oncologist there to discuss what we can do. I don't know that I've really got any questions for anyone here, I just was feeling overwhelmed and needed to unload. I'm sure each of you will understand the feeling.
Lori B.