Good Morning Ladies!
I've just read your post and am sitting here in a state of wonder myself.
Two years ago Eddie's father was dx with lung cancer. While on the beach that summer he had cut his toe on a seashell, when it didn't heal, his niece, an RN, advised him to seek medical attention immediately. I can tell you we were all stunned as we found out that cut and many tests showed he had cx in his left lung. They went in immediately and removed a portion and he was cured. This past January he started having some issues that weren't addressed immediately because his wife was dx with alzheimer's, with related dementia. He went for his check up finally and they found he had cx again, in the other lung. They said it was good because it was a different strain of cancer.
My Aunt Lauren was dx in April '03 with lung cancer and died in 11/03, with the cx mets to her brain. Of course we didn't understand all the tests at the time. I recall I started on her to go to the dr 11/02 because I had noticed a small lump on her neck. I saw her a couple of times again but didn't notice anything because she was wearing turtlenecks. I remember one day giving her a hug and brushing away a few strands of hair from her shoulder and felt something...I pulled her shirt aside because I had remembered that small lump on the upper part of her neck, what I found was a lump about the size of a newborn kitten! When she finally went to the MO, he said she had tumors on her lungs, she had a saucer size tumor right above her stomach. I can't say for sure, but I would hope that they did tests on her brain along the way. I don't recall anything being done for her headaches right away, but soon after she had scans that shown her brain had been mets. I aways wonder what if she had gone to the doctor when I initially asked her to...and what if?.....