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[Farmer-Rick]

42. This is my experience with lung cancer

This may NOT happen to you but I thought you should know other people have been where you are and have come out the other end OK. This happened about 10 years ago when my spouse was 60.

My spouse smoked all their life. Maybe quit once or twice but not seriously. They were smoking when I took them to the doctors because they had a slight fever and constant coughing.... before COVID.

The doctor diagnosed lung cancer and pneumonia caused by lung cancer. There were a couple of masses in the lungs. We went home with antibiotics for the pneumonia and a week later, we went to a specialist who set up to do a biopsy. The specialist said it wasn't a guarantee that it was lung cancer. The pneumonia had cleared up by then.

We went to the hospital for the biopsy. I waited in the hospital waiting room and the doctor came out immediately to tell me the results. They didn't wait days and I was told in the waiting room about the results. The results were also mailed to us a week later.

It was negative. There was no Cancer. The masses were benign possibly caused by the pneumonia, they didn't know for sure what caused them, aside from smoking.

I quit smoking the day they said the word cancer to my spouse. My spouse never quit but I did. Now is your chance to quit for good. Quitting will only help you even now.

I hope things will turn out well for you. Hang in there.