New here.......questions about my dad

maryaz

You are right about family. Often times it is difficult for family to understand. A lot of people really do shy away from talking openly about things. Everyone does look at things differently

This format I find helps you and helps the patient. I like to know what I am dealing with. It is good to know there is somewhere to go for answers.
Take care,
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Mary

Husband is 67 year old Male
NSCLC - Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Chemo and Radiation Treatments together
Allergic reactions to Taxol and Taxotere.
The Story: http://www.cancerforums.net/about9079.html

maryaz

You are right about family. Often times it is difficult for family to understand. A lot of people really do shy away from talking openly about things. Everyone does look at things differently

This format I find helps you and helps the patient. I like to know what I am dealing with. It is good to know there is somewhere to go for answers.
Take care,
_________________
Mary

Husband is 67 year old Male
NSCLC - Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Chemo and Radiation Treatments together
Allergic reactions to Taxol and Taxotere.
The Story: http://www.cancerforums.net/about9079.html

oertels6 · New User Joined: 27 Apr 2008 Posts: 9

Just a bit of an update.....

I finally got the doctor to move the time of his repeat CT closer......it will be next week now, instead of the middle of next month. It took hours of pouring through report after report and sitting down and making a FULL list of dads most recent sypmtoms and laying it all out to his doctor yesterday.

On the most recent report, it says there has been "new left lower lobe changes developed since prior chest films and indicates possible atelectasis

My concern is those two films, are only two weeks apart.

Is this a bad thing, or could it be just a difference in the doctors reading the films? (CT's)

Also, I should mention, I am a licensed massage therapist, so I have a pretty good knowledge of the lymphatic system and where all the nodes are located. Cancer however, IM not terribly familiar with. One of the things I have noted recently, is an appearance of small red bumps (they almost look like a tiny blood blister, but more red) on his chest, located right over the mediastinal nodes. But when I asked the doctor about it, he said the ones they spoke of on the CT from March 10, were internal rather than external.....and that these bumps often just show up with elderly people. After 25 years of working with the elderly...this is the first I have ever seen them. Does this make sense to anyone?

*EDIT* On a side note....dad was also diagnosed yesterday with Diabetes. (pretty sudden onset)

brainman

oertels6, any change is cause for concern. Since the radiologist has both CTs to compare to each other, it is very unlikely that the doctors are misreading them.

One possibility for the red spots is an allergic reaction to something. Has he been on Chemo or an antibiotic recently? In any event, the red spots are something that he or you should inform his medical team.
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