Tim 6003 CT Lung Scan back - but "odd" Any advice or opinion?

VanessaSLO said:

Extra prayers!!
Hey Tim! My answers will be no help because you know I don't have any kind of experience on that and my dad finished his tx 8 weeks ago. But I know others will answer those medical quiestions and their experience with the same issue they had in the past. As you read and heard yourself, many people have spots in lungs... And in many cases it turns out to be an infection or pneumonia. I think it's the same thing with you too. Why?
Because you've been working so hard for the past weeks. Cutting all that wood??? In freezing and cold, wet weather?? All day long, everyday??? If I was you I would probably already be lying in my bed with high fever and cup of hot tea - and sleeping for few weeks ))). You are not even one year out of your treatment and already doing and working so much. It is hard for your body. Some people say they are never the same after chemo and rads - because it takes away a lot of energy from you. I know a lot of people who had chemo and rads and even years after treatment they say they don't feel the same or still have a lot of symptoms (feeling tired, get sick easily...).
I know you said you feel great and full of energy. It is great to hear that but maybe your body wouldn't entirely agree on that. Maybe on the outside you feel great, your mind feels great, but your body is still recovering, still healing... And your body will not be the same again as it was before treatment. You know how many side effects you had during tx and how hard it was on you. So believe me that those cutting woods most certainly caused you some sort of flu, infection, pneumonia... I hope and think it is not cancer.

And one other thing. How many times in our lives do we have spots like that when we have some infection, flu, pneumonia and we do not get scans. We don't even know we have spots. Lets say that a person who never had cancer has bronchitis for example. He goes to the doctor, he listens to his breathing, gives him antibiotics and that's it. He feels pain in his chest, caughs etc... And maybe he has spots in lungs and nobody checks that. And they dissapear when he is healthy again.
But people who had cancer in head/neck or lung area get regular exams so they're monitored closely and many things can appear in scans - most of the time they don't mean anything, just infections.
Lets say that I would go to scans every three months (as I don't have cancer) and I'm sure that they would probably find something during winter season when I would have some sort of cold, flu, infection... It would probably show on that scan. But it would not mean it is cancer. But with people who had cancer every little spot is concerned as probable recurrence and it is normal and it should be that way.

jesus, I hope you understand what I was trying to say with all this writing ))). I'm chatty too )

So, Tim, I will keep you in my extra prayers for the following weeks and you'll see it will turn out to be nothing, just infection. Many people here had that.

Best,
V.

KareGiver said:

Tim
Sending prayers...