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DonnaGail shared an experience
Radiation (Internal radiation): I had radiation on my lungs, I went for 7 weeks straight (excluding weekends. I was lucky, never got burns. It just made me tired and felt a little tightness of the lungs.
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DonnaGail shared an experience
Procedure or Surgery (Chemotherapy. I never received a port but did 9 rounds of chemo.): Everything that comes with chemo.....sickness, severe bone aches, nausea, fatiuqe, depression, etc.
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DonnaGail shared an experience
Procedure or Surgery (Gamma Knife suregery on my brain.): I forget things daily. I have forgotten things that happened in the past and I have headaches more often than I ever have.
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DonnaGail shared an experience
Other Care (After going to the lung Dr. they did a complete series of tests, MRI Petscan and blood work.): Got a call after results came back in and they told me I had stage 4 cancer because it had spread to my brain.
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DonnaGail shared an experience
Oh No (The doctor game me the prescription for anitdepressants and suggested I get a lung exray only because I was a smoker): I immediately got my pills. Put the paper away for the x-ray. About 2 months went by when I saw the paper for the x-ray and said what the XXX, it is free and so I went and had the lung x-ray. She called me and said she needed to see me. I went in and she said I had Lung cancer and sent me to another Dr.