In the space of 8 weeks I have been diagnosed NSCLC, I count myself lucky in some ways, as I had a Pacemaker fitted last year, and exactly a year later, one of the wires of my pacemaker broke and went into hospital for a wire repair. Before I left the hospital after the repair, I had a chest xray. To my surprise the hospital rang the next day to say, they had found something on my right lung. If it had not have been for the lead breaking I would never have known, what was going on in my lung. Went for some tests, so last week I found I have NSCLC and this week I have had Covid!!!
If I am negative next week I will have a PET scan, followed by Brain scan, Echo and Lung function test. I have read through the NSCLC posts, thank you, trying to stay positive and on top of things, sometimes its hard, trying to be ok in front of family, especially our grandchildren. Thank you for reading my post and I feel humbled to have been able to read some of your posts x
Hello
I had a PET CT scan last Tuesday and I’m going hopefully for a needle biopsy tomorrow before full diagnosis next week. I don’t know if you’ve told your children but I decided to tell mine initially by email so I could give a full picture. I care for my two youngest after school twice weekly so had to say something when I wasn’t able to do pick up. I couldn’t face talking so mailing them all at once was the solution. I don’t know if you have a dedicated nurse yet but my cancer nurse said that if my family had questions they could call her. My 5 oldest grandchildren have been told with the two oldest part of the messenger group I set up for news. My littlest grandchildren won’t be told anything until we know the final diagnosis and treatment. Well, that’s just my family but it has made life far easier for me. They’ve been very supportive and helpful already.
I feel I’m isolating from Covid again so I can go ahead with the needle biopsy tomorrow. I have to go to the hospital today for a PCR test to check negativity to Covid. I hope you test negative before your appointments so they can go ahead. Waiting is rather challenging, like treading water and making no progress.
Wishing you all the best 
