Hi, I thought I would tell you my story....
October 2016 I started a new job which involved a lot of walking..I hadn’t worked for 3 years so when I started to lose weight I naturally thought it was all the walking that I was doing..jump to May 2017 and my sister thought I had lost too much weight in such a short time...( one and a half stone in 8 months ) and asked me to give the doctor a ring and ask him if he thought it was too much to lose.I rang him on Monday evening and he asked me to come to the surgery.He asked me a few questions about my health he wasn’t t duly worried but said to go to hospital for an X-ray..as I was working near a hospital on the following Thursday I did pop in and had an X-ray..well Friday morning at 8am the dr called me and said there was an abnormality on my right lung and asked me to go for a ct scan on the following Sunday. Sunday, I thought that was odd and began to get concerned...went for the Sunday scan and 3 weeks later was told it was lung cancer..My husband was in pieces, I was numb but felt so fit ,I thought I must stay positive about this and didn’t want to believe it was me that this was happening to, this was at the end of June 2017...the cancer was quite big and the surgeon wasn’t sure if it was operable but said he would try and remove it with a vats lobotomy...I went into hospital on the 8th August. He operated the same day and discharged me two days later....I had 6 weeks of daily radiotherapy...and started back to work on 5 Jan this year...I know I am one lucky lady as I do not take any medication and the only symptom I have is I get a bit puffed when going uphill...but them a lot of people of 65 do even with a complete lung.The secret is PMA...positive mental attitude and this is what I was told I had throughout the whole time of going through treatment.I have smoked all of my life and the day I was told it was cancer I stopped....why...because my children and grandchildren would have something to say to me if I hadn’t...I have got to thank my lucky stars that the surgeon was amazing and so were all of the nurses
