Diagnosed Early

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   Margot Community Admin

   <p>Appreciate you sharing your story so much <inline-mention user-id="2360850" username="jezzable"/> - how have you been feeling lately with the chemo and radiation? Keep us updated. Thinking of you. Best, Margot, <a href='https://lungcancer.net' target='_blank'>LungCancer.net</a> Team</p>

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   stum Member

   <p>I was diagnosed quite by accident...fortunately. I knew I had moderate COPD, and had stopped smoking cigarettes after 40 years. An arm injury and subsequent MRI for a torn rotator cuff identified two suspicious nodules on my right lung... CT scan verified and 6 weeks later, I was having robotic surgical lobectomy... That was May of 2016... As of this time, I am still cancer free...</p>

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   stum Member

   <p>Following my lobectomy, my lung did not properly seal for a week, almost necessitating another procedure... As they prepared for that, my lung did seal and I was discharged...Two days at home and an infection at the surgical site was noticed and by the next day, I was running a temperature of 103 and rising, and my organs were shutting down... Back to the hospital on a Friday night and admitted for observation revealed two lung infections...empyema and pneumonia... Two weeks of hospital hell, then fitted with a pic line for a month of additional antibiotic infusions at home until the infections were successfully treated, although a cough persisted and still comes and goes over 4 years later... I am less than a year away from my five year survival... Fortunately, my cancer was diagnosed in stage 1 and thus, no chemo was necessary... Watch out for those infections...The treatment was anything but fun...</p>

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