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  1. Thank you everyone for your warm welcome I live in a suburb NW of Chicago called Algonquin. When I asked the surgeon the reason for the stage, she said that the lymph nodes she took looked clean, but the main mass appeared to have spread. They found single cells outside that area. I am about a week and a half after surgery and I am quite tired and sore...seems more so now than before. Probably doing too much! The doctor ordered home nursing after my hospital stay. Right now she comes 3x a week. Her last visit was on Monday, and she said I was doing quite well. Thanks again for your warm welcome. I am confident I will find lots of answers and support here. Jennifer
  2. Hello, my name is Jennifer, and I am 45 years old. Because of an eye exam that required some more tests, my lung nodules were found by mistake. I went thru a battery of tests, and then after about 3 months the surgery was a go. The plan was to do a wedge ressection on my upper right lobe...and if the lab showed malignancy, they would continue with a lobectomy and lymph node dissection. In the months leading up to this, I prepared myself for what I thought would be the worst. It was the best way for me to get thru that time. I had my surgery on January 9th. They did wind up doing a lobectomy and removing several lymph nodes. Pathology did not come back with it's complete report until the following Wednesday. That is when I got the shock of my life. I am not even really sure that it has completely set in even still. I was prepared for the mass to be cancerous....I was prepared for a lobectomy and the recovery time involved in that. I was prepared for a level I diagnosis, as after all this was found by mistake and it just had to be in beginning stages. But, I did not get that news. The news I received that I was at stage IIIb. Still trying to learn what that means, exactly. My first oncology appointment is on the 28th when we will discuss my treatment plan. Anything the oncologist said to me while I was in the hospital, I don't think I really heard. It was just all so surreal. The plan, I believe is to start chemo 2 weeks after my oncologist visit..of course that will all depend on if I have completely healed from the surgery and have a green light from my surgeon.
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