LUNG FORCE Heroes
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Gale H. I am a 56 yr old woman. I smoked for 33 year. This year I went for my physical and my doctor recommended that I get the CT scan on my lungs because I was a smoker.
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Gail B. I had a slightly heavy feeling in my chest and I wasn’t sure what it was. I thought perhaps it was a panic attack, even though I was not anxious about anything. I did not have a constant heaving feeling, I would only feel it occasionally.
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Frank S. It all started with a cough in 2014. I was 34 years old, and it was cough and cold season, so I thought nothing of it. But it kept getting worse.
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Frank S. Last year on November 2, my mom became ill when she came home from work. She felt dizzy, and parked her car crooked when she arrived home.
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Ellen S. My uncles encouraged my mom to start smoking at the age of 13 out behind the barn.
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Ellen S. Our story is about BOOP; a short story, sadly too short. The love of my life, Pat, and I were best friends, he was my rock - a large burly man full of life.
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Ellen S. Late in 2013, 930 miles apart, I sat on the other line of a phone call that changed our lives. My mom had just been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer that had metastasized to her lymph nodes and adrenal gland.
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Doug F. It all began in 2012 when my brother went into the Texas Heart Institute in Houston for the repair of a mitral valve prolapse. During the procedure, the surgeon discovered that he had a 6 cm aneurysm in his ascending aorta, so he repaired that also.
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Dorothy H. I am writing about my husband, Gary Head. He smoked for over 50 years then I heard about the low-dose CT scan as a screening tool for smokers. I asked the nurse practitioner about having this done for my husband and she seemed more concerned about Me
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Donna W. My husband passed in June. He had lung cancer, plus chemo pneumonia and immunitius.
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Donna V. Went to a pulmonologist for new COPD medicine. She sent me for the scan because I was a long time smoker who had quit seven years before. It came back with a spot on the left low part of the upper lobe. I was then sent for a pet scan which lights up
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Donna Q. A CT scan was done of my heart and a nodule was found in each lung. Each was stage 1, not related to one another.
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Donna F. I am Donna. A wife of over 40 years, a mom, a daughter, a sister, and a stage IV lung cancer survivor.
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Donna C. Beginning of August 2017, I was having trouble catching my breath. It was a Friday night at work. After work I went to Urgent Care. They took a chest x-ray. No pneumonia, but called me Monday after radiologist looked at x-ray.
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Donna C. I have had 2 robotic lung caner surgeries. I never had an oncologist. Both were stage 1A.
