He went in for a respiratory checkup and was diagnosed with lung cancer. It is readily treatable but it sets you back. If radiation therapy is required, getting back to normal can take a year or more.
I know, I had 2 months of radiation therapy for prostate cancer 9 years ago. As the therapy progressed, I could feel myself going backwards. It took me a year to get back to full strength. Don't feel sorry for me or Joe, it is just what you have to live with. Every day at my therapy I saw other patients who were undergoing radiation therapy on top of chemotherapy and I thanked God for how lucky I was.
Paul in PA
Did my 20 rads back in 1990. 5 years to back to sort of normal. Suffer long term effects every day now. When the nukes go off best place to be is ground zero.
Sounds like stage-1.
I've lost a good friend to lung cancer who hadn't smoked for 40 years.
I hate to relate the episode about my Mom who just survived
pancreatic and lung cancer at the same time.
She tells me she is cancer free and fine.
During her recovery from chemo she got slammed with c-diff.
It seemed like one thing over another.
She made it through is all that counts to me.
E
