Re: rough couple of days

[Guest guest]

Brett, Waiting is so hard. I pray God's peace in your hearts.. the

peace that passes all understanding. It is human nature to project

all the possibilities.. so, when you do... pause, take Jesus by the

hand and ask him to take you to the Throne of God. There is peace

for the heart at the Throne. I'm spending a lot of time there myself

lately. Holding you up in prayer.. Gale in TX IPF 10/06

>

> good afternoon everyone,

>

> I usually don't talk about myself

> and how I am doing but In this case I wanted to let everyone know

> what has been going on

> and also get this off my chest ( I wish literally )

> well monday afternoon I had some pretty bad pain in my left lung ,

I

> couldn't take a deep breath

> it felt like when I had my chest tube in after my V.A.T.S

> so I called my local Dr. and he told me to go to the ER

> so I did and they checked me over pretty good and they did another

CT

> scan

> and turns out the spot in my left upper lobe had more than tripled

in

> size so they called

> my pulmonologest at UofM and he said he wanted to see me right away

> so my wife and I went there yesterday morning my doctor met me at

the

> sign in desk

> and wanted to see the scan that they took here at the hospital in

> grand rapids

> he looked at it along with the radiologist and some other Drs.

> they think for sure that the spot that had grown so large so fast

is

> cancer

> but there were some other spots much smaller and lower that they

were

> not sure of

> so they are going to do a bronchoscopy on those spots along with

the

> large spot

> to make sure

>

> they said they want to get me in a.s.a.p. probably monday

> my pulmo said the best thing that could come out of this was

that

> the spots lower and smaller

> test negative in witch case they would just remove my left upper

lobe

> were the giant spot is

> and if it tests positive than they would remove the left upper

lobe

> and put me on some oral

> chemo therapy and hope that it would take care of the rest

> If it doesn't than he would recommend a double lung transplant

> but all I can do now is wait till after the biopsy

> my wife and family are taking it pretty hard,,, so could everyone

say

> a little prayer for my family

> PLEASE?

> thank you

>

> Brett Bowser

> familial UIP/IPF 11/07 40 Mi.

>