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HI! I apologize for not having checked in. How are things going for your husband? And You?

Hi Vickie, To answer your questions: I am doing my 4th round of chemo tomorrow. I am taking the Alimta and Carboplatin.. It took me a bit to get away from the statistics. Those are only numbers and we are real people and we respond in our own ways to the treatment. After my chemo we are going to do a scan to see if anything else shows. If nothing shows we are moving on to the 28 days of radiation to my mediastinal area because of those nasty lymph nodes that came back positive. What motivates me is Valerie Harpers story. That may do nothing for you and your husband. I encourage you to seek what gives you strength. I made it through these rounds of chemo with a positive attitude and crammed all the things I liked into the days I felt good and slept when I felt bad.... without being hard on myself for not feeling like doing anything.To put things into perspective we just took a trip to Florida. We spent 6 days and I really only took one whole day to relax and recharge. I have had no nausea or vomiting and I kept all of my hair.
I really hope this gave you some insight. My chemo started 60 days after surgery.

ih yes I to left after 1 day from icu but it will be good just make sure they keep up on the pain meds and u do all u can for him .get him to walk to that helps.it will be good if u need any thing .ask I will try to help u ok
I am 2 weeks out of hosp. doing well

hi just got home from right upper lobe surgery it went good still have chest tube in. its a painfull surgrey he will do fine . good luck and ill pray for u.lights.

I noticed a comment about lymph nodes in another post. They did a biopsy on the lymph nodes during the mediastinoscopy, and ended up removing lymph nodes during the lung surgery.

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