Hope can be a very powerful tool.Ĭompleted 3 rounds of folfox with 5fu pump at home for 2 days. I let a lot go by the way side and payed a price though I'm rectifying that now.Īnd very important and maybe doesn't even have to be mentioned but only reminded.There's always reason for hope. Your body most likely is stuck in the fight or flight mode and these hormones help you address the problem no matter what but since we want to make this a long long process it's important to recognize your body has most likely shut down any mechanisms of telling what the body needs/wants. I think it has something to do with the fight or flight hormones, Adrenaline, Cortisol, Norepinephrine. To do that you'll also need to recognize your own needs by planning for them because your body stops telling you what that is. Help you husband to be as comfortable as possible through all the treatment, side effects, and symptoms. Several had tried it and several planned to. I mentioned it here on Grace (there was quite a bit more activity and conversation here at the time) and it seemed everyone had a positive reaction to this type of letting it out. I found myself screaming in the car when I thought no one else could hear. I remember when D was diagnosed, he was very sick and needed a lot of care. What comes to mind right now and maybe because of a movie I watched last night is a good scream is quite cathartic. I know how unreal it seems to you and I wish I could give you some helpful ideas to move through this. What I have to say are my own thoughts from my own experience and not those of a medical expert. I meant to come back a respond earlier so sorry for the delay. I am so very sorry about your husband's diagnosis. In patients with cancer, the scan should “light up” or show “uptake” in areas where there is tumor." … It tells us whether what we see on the CT scan is metabolically active. Silvestri's post on work up of lung cancer, "Another complementary scan to the CT scan that is being increasingly performed in patients with known or suspected lung cancer called a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scan. If not perhaps a specialist with a bigger name could inspire the insurance co.įrom Dr. Hopefully the doctor will have better luck. Often when smaller it doesn't express enough activity to show uptake. One cm is considered the benchmark for a nodule to be large enough to show uptake on the PET scan. Perhaps it's because the nodule is 9mm not 10mm (1cm). A PET scan after a worrisome CT is pretty standard work up in the US for lung cancer. I'm glad the doctor is so involved and likely to be of much help.
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