My husband was told back in January after an xray he had an infection and a collapsed lung no sign of lung cancer after coughing since before Christmas .He had blood tests which showed CRP in his blood me being me googled everything and thought how strange this was. .He had 3 weeks worth of different anti biotics then 6 weeks after the first xray he had a second one done which showed his lymph nodes were swollen and a mass on his right lung. I was so angry as this wrong diagnosis could have had the ball rolling so much earlier. I can not believe he is so flippant he says it is what it is. The only thing that drives him mad is the continuous coughing. He has had CT scan, biopsy, MRI scan and Friday a PET scan so hopefully all systems go as soon as possible . He needs to start treatment asap he's only 68 in my eyes that is quite young especially when my dad was 96 yesterday .Has anyone else had similar problems I know we were all scared of the covid and did not want to pester our doctors but the nurses were seeing patients why were the doctors not seeing anyone this could have been sorted earlier. .
Hi
Welcome to our community though so sorry to hear about your husband. We have heard lots of similar stories to yours through lockdown and even before. It has been known that patients have not been wanting to bother the doctors and of course the doctors have been busy, the need to sanitise everything between patients has dramatically affected throughput and on top of all that of course the doctors themselves have not been immune to the effects of requirements of lockdown.
My wife also had a high CRP reading that caused the doctors to be concerned that she might have cancer - and they looked everywhere but in the process disregarded what to us seemed a significant gynaecological symptom - well until she collapsed in toxic shock in our GP surgery.
From your message I wonder if your husbands situation at the moment is "probable lung cancer" rather the the final diagnosis. If we look at our pages on lung cancer and in particular the section of diagnosis you might be able to identify clearly where he is and what might be coming next - it is useful to to note the section on waiting for test results - on here we often refer to this time as scanxiety - and it is very hard.
Until the doctors identify a particular type of lung cancer it would be very difficult to identify the correct treatment plan, given that treatment can itself be quite challenging.
Your comments about "being flippant" and actually quite common. For my wife the one thing that can drive her mad is if someone says "you are so brave" - on a good day she might just say "when was I given a choice?" - on a bad day I am leaving the room at that point.
It is amazing how difficult it can be sitting beside a loved one as they go through all this - often people describe a cancer diagnosis as being like a tsunami sweeping all away in it's part. You might find some useful nuggets for you in our pages Looking after someone with cancer
I ended up doing a living with less stress course that managed to turn me around from someone who was just mostly angry to being the loving partner that my wife needed - and remembering that I also need to look after myself.
<<hugs>>
Steve
