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Originally Posted by shadowrose40 HI
I haven't posted much about me lately. I'd pretty much decided to blow everything off and what would be would be.
Well, it's been three months now. My lungs aren't any better. Two CT's show the nodule, enlarged nodes, etc.
Now, three months later, I'm coughing up blood again and having pain through my upper back.
Did any of you just not want to know? I try and discuss this with my adult daughter, and she just says "Mom, it's not cancer" and doesn't want to talk about it.
Well, I'm pretty sure that it is cancer. And I'm getting worse. Everything I eat makes me sick. My intestines are a total mess and I feel exhausted all the time. My upper right quadrant hurts constantly. The same way it did a few years ago when they removed a tumor off my liver.
I get short of breath walking across a parking lot to my car.
I'm whining, sorry. I just don't have anyone to talk to.
My daughter quit her job to work wtih me so we didn't loose our income when I'm too sick to work. But her dream is to go to Austrailia. We're saving to take the trip in the next few months.
Chemo- if this is cancer- is out of the question. I won't do it. Wouldn't do radiation, either.
So, do I go find out, or just bide my time? Would it make a difference to 'know' for sure? I'm thinking about going and finding out without telling my daughter, but then I have to ask myself if that's fair to her?
I don't have family or anyone to help but her. Do I find out and just not tell her?
I'm confused, I don't know what to do anymore. |
Hello. Firstly, let me say I am sorry to hear that you are going through this.
I wanted to post because I wanted to share my story with you, in hopes that it will help. My daddy was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2002.
He and my mother lived in Alabama and me in Georgia at the time. We had just moved away from them to GA, in 2000. Right after we moved, my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. They removed the tumor, did chemo, and radiation, and she has been cancer free now for almost 5 years.
Two years later, my daddy was diagnosed with lung cancer. I am sorry, I am not exactly sure what kind, but I do know the doctors told us he would possibly live 12 to 14 months, give or take a few. Anyway, he went ahead and got the Chemo and the radiation as well as removed the tumor.
That was in 2002. After the chemo and radiation, we were told that the cancer was gone and he was cancer free. He had breathing problems other than the cancer so he was on oxygen for 3 years, but cancer free.
My dad died Saturday of heart failure/ kidney failure, but, he lived for years cancer free because he took the steps early to fight the cancer, and because he had a will to live.
I think that it would be a good idea to go have this checked out and if it is cancer, have the treatment. My parents both worked the whole time they were having the Chemo. There are drugs available now that help with the nausea, etc. It is worth it, because there is always a chance.
I hope you didn't mind I shared this.
Thanks.
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