Mom's CT scan of her lung -- because she had something noticed on a CT scan for some other issue back in February or January -- has come back as "compatible with primary pulmonary neoplasm" with a recommendation for a biopsy. The scan notes something that might be mucoid impaction or bronchopneumonia (follow up in three months), and structures "compatible with ... pulmonary fibrosis."
I think of her years of coughing....
I'm holding off on any cancer worries - biopsy is next. But reading about the pulmonary fibrosis and considering her history of coughing.... The average life expectancy after diagnosis of pulmonary fibrosis is four years, says the internet. I wonder about cognative decline and small mercies.
What will be will be.
I think of her years of coughing....
I'm holding off on any cancer worries - biopsy is next. But reading about the pulmonary fibrosis and considering her history of coughing.... The average life expectancy after diagnosis of pulmonary fibrosis is four years, says the internet. I wonder about cognative decline and small mercies.
What will be will be.
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My mom had a different set of end of life issues (lung cancer caught at early stage but recurred, and then a stroke at the end that was mercifully fast), but I remember her coughing and feeling unable to help. I am here for any dumping-out needs.
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Your mother's situation sounds like it could be quite complicated though given her existing problems. I'm sorry to hear that this difficult time could go on much longer than at first expected.
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I hope my parents find a route through this that has some lightness.