{"id":102606,"date":"2020-02-21T07:42:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T15:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/i-was-diagnosed-with-stage-iii-lung-cancer-heres-what-i-want-everyone-to-know"},"modified":"2020-02-21T07:42:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T15:42:37","slug":"i-was-diagnosed-with-stage-iii-lung-cancer-heres-what-i-want-everyone-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/i-was-diagnosed-with-stage-iii-lung-cancer-heres-what-i-want-everyone-to-know","title":{"rendered":"I Was Diagnosed with Stage III Lung Cancer. Here\u2019s What I Want Everyone to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/i-was-diagnosed-with-stage-iii-lung-cancer-heres-what-i-want-everyone-to-know.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I get emotional talking about my lung cancer. When I was first diagnosed and learned how serious it was, I thought it was a death sentence. And it all started with something so small: a cyst under my armpit.<\/p>\n<p>My husband and I usually go to all of our routine doctor\u2019s visits together. At one of my husband\u2019s appointments, I happened to mention the cyst, since it had been bothering me. I was hoping the doctor could help, but he said it was too big to take care of in the office, and made me an appointment with a surgeon.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the cyst removal didn\u2019t seem like a big deal, and I didn\u2019t think much of it. I was 72 years old, and I didn\u2019t feel sick in any way. As part of the routine procedure prep, my surgeon ordered a chest X-ray. We were all surprised when the imaging showed that I had a cancerous tumor in my right lung that needed to be surgically removed. Initially, my surgeon told me it was Stage I, small, and not serious, so I wasn\u2019t too concerned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get emotional talking about my lung cancer. When I was first diagnosed and learned how serious it was, I thought it was a death sentence. And it all started with something so small: a cyst under my armpit. My husband and I usually go to all of our routine doctor\u2019s visits together. At one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}