Ask Leo Hanes All About Lung Cancer

Was an uneventful day, do not recall any particular fatigue….worked online most of the day

Thursday Sept 04:

Was up at 0715, enjoyed breakfast, watched rerun of Sara Palin speech on CNN…….was feeling a little funky by about 1100, nothing really special

At about 1315 I felt a pain building in my right ribcage/lung area, that became really overwhelming , lasting intensely about an hour…a real pulling pain….it reminded my of the pain I had experience in 1982 when my left lung collapsed……..scared the bajeebers out of me.

During this I took 2 X 500 mg perasidimol, pain subsided, and I slept from 1500- 1700

2030 took another couple perasidimol before sleeping for the night, knowing I had doctor appointment tomorrow

Friday Sept 05

Up at 0800, still very aware of “pulling” in right lung rib cage area, coughing was painful, took my regular prednisone meds, and my throat gunk meds……

1030 had chest x-ray taken in prep for doctor appointment

1215 we met with Dr Retera, he shows us the inflammation/ pneumonitis area has reduced, still an area closest to esophagus remains visible.

There is an overall lung shrinkage taking place ( i.e. diaphragm is higher on right side maybe 20-25%, which helps explain shortness of breath)

Yesterdays pain is not symptomatic or consistent with the pneumonitis progress visible….we discussed the shrinkage, scarring possibly resulting in fibrosis in some area, can’t predict of course

He prescribed another round of blood tests, and another CT scan, both of which were completed before leaving hospital

Next appointment is scheduled Thursday Sept 11

Took 2 X 500 mg perasidimol before bed at 1030

Saturday Sept 06

Experiencing some agitation , and anxiety today, overall fatigue not too overwhelming……feeling like the chemo fog and or med side effects taking over again

Sunday Sept 07

Up at 0700, breakfast etc, actually feeling ok, then I laid down just for a minute at 0900 , and woke at 1145