A Step that Travels Unlimited Roads
Mary Beth’s Story
In 2005 I was about to have my hip replaced due to a congenital defect. A pre-op chest x-ray showed “something,” perhaps a pneumonia artifact, and it was still there 3 weeks later, no bigger. But there was no way I was going to let anything stand in my way of getting that hip fixed! I hadn’t been pain-free for years and now with one leg an inch shorter and no breathing symptoms, I decided to follow up on the chest film later.
With great fear I did follow up with a new internist. He ordered a CT which confirmed a small tumor; a local pulmonologist ordered a fine-needle biopsy, PET scan, lung function studies and, with shocking coldness, told me I had a malignancy (“that means cancer, you know”) and proceeded to relate the grim survival statistics for lung cancer. Read More
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