Laura McCracken | November 29, 2010
I’m too busy to own cancer tumors! With a full-time work, home, social life, dating, biking and traveling, how will you place it all on pause for a disease? Back 2007, the candle was being burned by me at both ends. We felt so tired and achy most of the time, therefore I stopped working out because i did son’t have the power. It appeared to all spiral down from then on.
In August 2007, We kept pains that are having my upper body, however when We decided to go to a doctor, he stated perhaps We hurt myself in the gymnasium, bruised some cartilage or it could be a strain. He provided me with discomfort pills and explained it may take a moment. Nothing unusual turned up in the x-ray. The medical practioners had been emphasizing my bones, however, maybe not my lung area.
Frightened, we desperately called an Asian medicine acupuncturist and chiropractor to inquire of if he could see me straight away and inform the thing that was incorrect beside me. He took a standing x-ray and explained that we necessary to immediately see a doctor. The x-ray revealed my chest that is entire wall clouded white, just like once I had pneumonia as a youngster, except this is a good, white colored.
It was night and I didn’t know where to go friday. I finished up at an clinic that is after-hours. They did a blood that is white make sure stated it couldn’t be pneumonia, and so I ended up being provided for the er. After a CT scan, an ER doctor (with great bedside way) bluntly stated so it appeared to be cancer tumors and all the best! Continue reading “Lung Cancer Survivor’s Story: Don’t Ignore the Signs”