Hi,

Just introducing myself, my partner has just recently been diagnosed with NSC lung cancer and I'm acting here and in general on her behalf. She's 48, never smoked and doesn't drink, went 6-7 times per week to the gym etc etc but since this year she's had tiredness (we thought it was the usual job stress she has) and recurrent pneumonia and chest/shoulder pains.

She's seen 5+ different GPs, none of them even remotely mentioned her current scenario, they were just keen to treat the symptoms and not the underlying cause of them. Eventually she was hospitalized with severe pneumonia and even then it took them a month or more after her discharge to do a CT scan, then 2 weeks wait for the result only for us to be told by the doctors that no one had done a report on her scan.... unbelievable.

However they did organize a bronchoscopy for the following week where they did exploratory biopsies, she then saw the respiratory consultant last week - twice, and the second time was given a diagnosis of inoperable adenocarcinoma...

Since then we've been to see the oncologist on Monday and she's due to start chemo next Tuesday, she also had a PET CT scan yesterday and was called today to go back to see the oncologist tomorrow for a follow-up appointment. If the cancer has spread then that would rule out her having radiotherapy, atleast for time being.

She's terrified and has been put on anti-depressants plus sleeping tablets. At the moment it's just a rollercoaster of emotions, it's hard for me to keep her spirits up as much as I try being positive.

I'm sure many of you have been there, done that.

Thanks for listening.

Gary