Living With Lung Cancer
Your doctor has just told you that you have lung cancer. Even if you thought that you might have something seriously wrong, those words probably made you feel as if the floor dropped away beneath your feet. You don’t want to believe this terrible news. You wonder how this could have happened to you.
Maybe you had some symptoms such as pneumonia that seemed to keep coming back. Or, it seemed as if you were always taking antibiotics. Maybe you were coughing a lot. Sometimes there was blood in your sputum. Maybe you just felt tired, or you got out of breath walking your dog. Maybe you had no symptoms at all. Maybe you were having your regular checkup and your doctor thought your lungs sounded different than usual. No matter how the diagnosis came about, it is shocking and not something anyone wants to hear.
