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I’ve been thinking lately about how to chronicle the onset of the disease it order to determine the length of my survival. Was it when I started having a persistent cough, when the family doctor noted something suspicious and ordered an x-ray, when we got the results of a C-T scan and met with an Oncologist, or when I had a biopsy?

The cough became noticeable in the Fall of ’05, so the cancer had developed then. I had gone to a Dr. in Jan ’06, but he did not seem to think anything of it, and it wasn’t until I went to a long time Family Physician that she heard something “troublesome” in my lung. After the x-ray she felt it was either cancer or tuberculosis, and ordered the C-T scan. Since I’m 74, the tuberculosis was a potential for anyone from the South my age, but not terribly likely because I’ve been tested ever since I was a tot. The x-ray was in Feb ’06, the C-T scan in Mar, and the biopsy in Apr.

Anyway, the diagnosis was Stage IV in Apr, restaged to IIB in Oct, and deemed NED after the lobectomy in Nov.

It has been quite a year, or thereabouts!

Cheers,

Geo

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  • 2 months later...

A week or so ago the local hospital sponsored a cancer awareness day. My Wife and I went, and, lo, I had some suspicious skin "spots". That was on a Saturday, so Monday we called the Dr. who had made the "diagnosis" and scheduled an appointment. Wednesday we went in and he decided to remove 3. Today, Tuesday, he called to report the 2 were benign, but the one on my lower lip (beneath my beard) was a basil cell carcinoma! Now to find another surgeon who specializes in such to make sure all cells are removed.

Cheers,

Geo

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