By: Kaisa

Kaisa — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:03:17 +0000

A powerful, yet not unfamiliar story. My boyfriend Nick died June 22, 2009 from a blood clot – Stage 4 Adenocarcinoma spread to his spine and compressed his nerves, leaving him unable to walk, even after emergency surgery. He was in physiotherapy to learn to walk again, but never got the chance. He made it through 2 rounds of chemo, which were showing promise towards remission. He was originally told that his shoulder pain was probably a pulled muscle, at one point an MRI even made it looked like a slipped disc. But after waking one day to no longer be able to move his legs, a CT scan finally showed 2 tumors. One in the lung, one on the spine. He was 27 years old, and a non-smoker. I will continue to fight the battle for him, I know he would have done everything he could to defy the odds, and help others along the way.

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 01:44:32 +0000

Wow, thanks for sharing your story! This could be similar to my husband’s case. He was a non-smoker, 33 years old and had pneumonia as a child too– so badly that the doctors had already gotten his mom to sign the organ donor paperwork. Then his fully white left lung chest x-ray showed up Sept 1, 2009– his x-ray had been completely clear August 4. He died Oct 21, 2009, after only one dose of chemo which obviously didn’t get a chance to work. He also grew up in West Virginia around the coal mines, which may have put arsenic in the water, another possible contributor to lung cancer in young people.
–maryhbailey@hotmail.com

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