Shared Stories
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Chelsea C. Today is my lungaversary! A year ago today I underwent surgery to remove a tumor in the upper lobe of my right lung.
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Pamela B. My name is Pamela. I'm a cancer survivor three times. In 2013, I had breast cancer. They found it early enough, it was stage 1.
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Frank F. I made a promise with my daughter that if I quit smoking she would stop biting her nails. A few years later, I quit. I learned about the low-dose CT scan while signing up for a golf tournament.
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Eva Marie F. I smoked for over 15 years. I started when I was around 8 years old, but didn't seriously start smoking until I was in my 20s, smoking up to 2 packs a day.
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Carla G. In 2014, my ex-husband, the father of my children m, was dying of lung cancer. He and I had both smoked for close to 40 years.
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Catherine S. I am a never smoker who was diagnosed with Mucinous Adenocarcinoma of my left lung in May of 2020.
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Jose A. My name is Jose Armas, I'm a 64-year young Latino male to recently went through a bi-lateral lung transplant. I was diagnosed with IPF. At my worst, I was at a lung function of 42%. My last spirometry came in a 131%—WOW.
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Barbara W. My husband just passed on July 1st 2022, 18 days before my 73rd birthday.
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Bob B. I was told I had smoldering multiple myeloma years ago. I have been tested every six months since, the progress stays the same.
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Chanel C. In the past two years, I've lost two members of my extended family due to COPD and lung cancer.
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Laverne C. MUCINOUS ADENOCARCINOMA; this was the lung cancer type that I had.
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Erica T. I worked at a local hospital and contracted COVID-19 from a patient. I thought it would be a mild infection since I was a healthy active woman.
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Tracy G. The picture of health, active, health conscious and all natural were all words used to describe Tracy.
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Heidie N. I was diagnostic with COPD in April of 2018,
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Randette J. By the grace of God, my mother Diane Baker, age 72 went to her doctor for a routine physical. The attending doctor was a physician's assistant who noticed my mother hadn't had a chest X-ray in years and felt they should go ahead an take one.
