This was the best day in a while. Went into the office for about 6 hours. Good appetite - ate solid food. Head getting a little chilly from being bare. Thought I better catch up on some dates before I can't reconstruct the timeline.
Annual physical Tuesday April 10 - oddly, Dr Forkin and I discussed how healthy I seemed to be again this year.
Call at home from Dr Forkin about chest xray Thurday April 11 about 8:30 PM. Xray every two years was pretty much just routine procedure. Scheduled CT scan for on April 17.
Met Dr Forkin with Jill on Thursday April 19 to learn that things in my right lung looked abnormal. She positioned it as very serious but still could be a variety of things.
Met with Dr Mason Goodman on Friday April 20. Mason confirmed that it looked very questionable.
Friday April 20 went immediately to Methodist Hospital for various blood work in prep for lung biopsy.
Lung biopsy at Methodist Hospital on Tuesday April 24. Actually, relatively simple needle biopsy.
DAY OF CONFIRMED DIAGNOSIS Met with Mason on Thursday April 26 and learned that the biopsy showed that I have adenocarcinoma in my right lung. He advised that he was referring me to Dr Larry Einhorn at the IU Cancer Center.
First meeting with Dr Larry Einhorn on Wednesday May 2 at IU Cancer Center. Dr Einhorn gave us a summary of the situation and discussed various issues involved. He seemed optomistic about our chances of taking the cancer into remission but indicated that at stage IV, surgery and a real cure are not likely. At best, can hope to get it under control and treated as an ongoing chronic condition. Focus will be on survival and extending my life.
Friday, May 4, first chemo treatment
So...this timeline brings everything up to date. The first entry in this blog starts with the first chemo treatment on Friday, May 4.
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