PET Scan Results & Letter to GP

The Results – Part 1

After an anxious wait of 10 days, the PET scan results were finally revealed to us yesterday.
Now you would think, the results would have been revealed to us from someone we knew, such as the lung specialists or the respiratory nurse, or even an Oncologist (if we had one). Nope, not this time, as usually [...]

Ramadan and the phantom PET scan results

Today was the first day of the holy month of Ramadan. I have decided that this year I will try my very best to pray 5 times a day. I’ll pray for my fathers life, pray for strength, pray for forgiveness and pray for guidance.
It has again been quite a fruitless day. I chased the [...]

The PET Scan

We have decided to go ahead and arrange a PET scan on the premise my father is going for the Radical option. This is purely a formality to enable this to happen. The results will dictate whether we go for the gentle radiotherapy building up to the Radical option.
We should get an appointment time sometime [...]

The 5 Options

On the 21st August my father, myself and brother in law attended an appointment with the Lung Specialist. It was the news that we were dreading, praying and hoping not to hear. The biopsy results confirmed that the large grapefruit like mass was as suspected a grapefruit sized malignant tumor. The same sqaumous non-small cell [...]