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Welcome, Tami. Yes, some stretches of what you have to go though with treatment are pretty tough. I'm a long distance cyclist used to being able to do whatever I want, but came home from lung surgery unable to put on my own socks for days.
But the fact that you had surgery gives you a better chance than many. So hang in there and keep slogging along. There are plenty here to help you along the way, or just listen to your rants when you feel like ranting.
Sorry you need to be here, but glad you found us. Again, welcome!
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I know what you mean, Debi. Between my family, job, and riding, I had plenty to do, and my first inclination was to throw myself into everything and just try to forget that it ever happened.
But after the trauma of open lung surgery, sitting in chemo rooms with other cancer patients, and interacting online with others who are later lost or lose loved ones, it's easier said than done. I think getting involved, trying to help and give support is therapeutic for the soul.
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These medical people do know how to drive us nuts, don't they? But it does sound like it may be nothing. Good luck for Thursday!
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Best wishes for Bill. I hope RFA works out for him.
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Millie,
Wish her good luck from me, and tell her we're all pulling for her to come through in great shape!
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Test results
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I'm coming up on that two year anniversary myself. Big congrats, Bruce!
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December will make 2 years of survival for me. I'm way too busy, working 45 hours a week and riding my bicycle 130 miles a week, although I'm hoping to do something about that work time before long.
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Wow, 9 years! Congrats, Barb!
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It's raining here in North Texas, on the day that was supposed to be my first day to ride the bike to work rather than driving. I dropped that idea when I saw the lightning in the west. Maybe next week...
Speaking of riding, after I got home from work yesterday, Rose and I rode 20 miles on the tandem. It was her first bike ride since her second round of chemo in July. I think she was a bit tired when we got home.
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Congrats on 3 years, Patti! Keep on keeping on!
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Best wishes, Marisa. Please let us know what you find out.
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Hi Lisa. Glad to see you check in here. I do read your blog regularly, too. I think you do a great job with it.
Here's wishing you a lot more pain free survival and good quality of life.
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Interesting stuff. If 85 percent of lung cancer is related to smoking, and eating red meat every day gives you an 85 percent greater chance of getting colon cancer, why haven't we stigmatized eating red meat like we have smoking?
The other thing that caught my eye is the staying out of the sun thing. We can stay out of the sun and get less cancer, but it will also cause us to have less vitamin D in our system, which causes a whole host of health problems, including increasing our chances of lung cancer. It gets tough to decide what's healthy and what's not sometimes...
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I finally got around to joining Facebook when Jerrold Dash, a local survivor and double lung transplant recipient, invited me. I really don't post much there, but now have so much family and so many lung cancer and cycling friends there that I check on everyone pretty much every day.
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So sorry to read this, Kristi. Condolences to you and your family.
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Good News!
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Way to go Carol, CONGRATS!
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Hi Cindy. Welcome. We'd love to hear more of your story.
You don't say where in Texas you are. I live in Crowley. If you're in the DFW area, please consider joining us at our in person lung cancer support group which meets in Trophy Club the last Monday of every month (that's this coming Monday). You can find more info here.
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Very interesting video, Ned. Thanks. The head of the Mayo Clinic says the best health care delivery system doesn't make a very good business model. Somehow, we already knew that.
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Five years. Those are some pretty magical words around here. Big congrats, Kasey!
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My wife is having this problem, too; her onc doesn't seem to communicate well with her surgeon. One of the things I like about my VA treatment is that everything is on the VA computer system. No matter what doctor I see, he can look at every scan and see every other doctor's comments.
Have you found out anything more yet?
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That's great news. Congrats!
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Welcome Mary. Sorry you need to be here, but glad you found us.
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"bud"]Great news Bud, is your wife as active as You.
Rose is a cyclist, too, although she hasn't tackled the kind of distances that I ride. She had done her longest ride ever, an 80 mile ride, just three weeks before being diagnosed with cancer.
She did three short rides after her first round of chemo, but has had too much exhaustion to ride since.
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So sorry to see where you are right now, Michelle. The very nature of this forum is such that there will be bad news and bad times, sometimes. Come back and cry and rant and rave at us. We're up to it, and feel even worse when we don't hear anything.