Hi, I am new here. Here is my story..or my dad's should I say.
My dad was having chest pressure, he thought was indigestion, until it kept him up a couple nights in a row. He finally went to the docs, took an x-ray, and his doc said he was fine and sent him home with an Advil script. A little later, his doc called and said that they found something that looked suspicious. He went and had a CAT scan of his lungs and pelvic area on Friday. (They did the pelvic region because he had kidney cancer some years ago.) His doc called him today while I was at work and wanted him to come in today to discuss the CAT scan. Turns out he has tumors between his lungs. They can't operate, for some reason. He is going on Thursday for his consult with a thoracic surgeon and to schedule for his biopsy. I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo worried that it will be cancerous. His mother died from lung cancer about 6 years ago. My dad doesn't smoke though. They told him when he had his kidney cancer that because he had kidney cancer he may get lung cancer. I was reading some about lung cancer online, and it won't look good if he has it. Not good at all. But...His symptoms were a little different from the ones I read. Nothing I read said anything about pressure in the chest. Only pain, which he didn't have he said. He had a cough before that, but when he finally went to the doc for that, it got better, I thinkkkk...And the only other thing that he MIGHT have had was tiredness...But he is getting older, 54-years-old. Before when he would go outside and rake, he would be fine, but in the past year, whenever he did that, or any other yard work, he sometimes couldn't finish it because he was tired. But other than that, his symptoms don't match. Never had blood in his phlegm, no breathing difficulties, etc.
Does anyone have a story similar to mine? If so how are things going?
I'm very scared and don't want to lose him...
Please help!!
Pinky
