We Need Your Prayers
The more the better...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 by RedneckDude | Discussion: Community
Friends and fellow WCites,
My wife Lisa and I are in need of some heavy duty prayer help. She may have lung cancer. I hope not.
About 3 months ago, while at the local movie theater, my wife accidentally inhaled a piece of popcorn. We gave it little thought at the time. Over time, it has caused her an infection, pneumonia, a hell of a lot of coughing, some pukin', 3 CT scans, and lots of irritation and soreness.
This past sunday, she started coughing and kept it up till she vomited, and being a nurse, she refused to go to the ER. After about an hour and 15 minutes of solid coughing, I and her mother finally decided she was going to the ER, like it or not. Nurses are the worst patients. They treated her with codeine, and ativan by injection and sent her home.
Tuesday she had a bronchoscopy. They didn't find any popcorn, we are fairly certain she coughed it up on sunday, I saw it in the bag she was pukin' in. But they did find what the Doc called "inflammatory growth". He biopsied it, and we'll have results in a few days.
He is treating her with breathing treatments, steroids, codeine, and an inhaler. He advised us that this will fix her, if it isn't cancer.
Seth, if you read this, your 2 cents is appreciated.
Friends, please say a word or two of prayer for us, add her to your prayer list at church, every little bit helps.
This may be an odd request, but feel free to email her spirit lifting messages, if you feel comfortable in doing so.
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Reply #22 Wednesday, October 28, 2009 3:58 PM
Well then we all better be carefully, don't want to give any secrets away. 
Reply #23 Wednesday, October 28, 2009 4:10 PM
I pray for everything to go well. Positive thoughts for you and yours.
Reply #24 Wednesday, October 28, 2009 4:16 PM
All my hopes and prayers are with you and yours Jim!
Reply #25 Wednesday, October 28, 2009 4:49 PM
Hey, Jim. 
My prayers (for whatever they're worth) are always with and for my friends!
I'll have no ill speaking about Nurses as I was one in Med School, and also because I am the world's worst patient, bar none and won't have anyone trying to steal my hard won title! 
That being said, any foreign body entering the respiratory tree can cause: 1) Inflammation (a normal and desirable response) and 2) Pneumonia, if a small airway is blocked by the object (post-obstructive pneumonia and lung collapse).
Hopefully she coughed it up, but very small fragments could have gotten stuck to the lining of the respiratory tree and caused inflammation. One of the body's responses is to wall off offending objects, be they organic (like popcorn, or Tuberculosis, etc.) or inorganic (like glass, shrapnel, etc.). Eventually those are expelled/pushed out of the body. The body eventually consumes the organic invaders (not T.B., though).
CT scans sometimes are ambiguous, and lung findings (growths, nodules) can be really tough/deceptive. There are CT criteria for weighting one diagnosis over another, but sometimes a biopsy has to be taken via Bronchoscope (like a colonoscope but for the airways) or CT guided via the chest wall, if the location allows. If not, an open biopsy has to be done.
If your wife has no real risk factors for a primary or secondary lung tumor (cancer), I'd be thinking "most likely an inflammatory nodule/polyp" and therefore benign.
No matter what, Jim...my prayers are with you...unscientific as that might be.
You can always pm me your phone number and we can talk. *edit: just pm'd you my number.
(reference paper about this: http://medind.nic.in/iae/t01/i4/iaet01i4p231g.pdf
*doc's waiting for Jafo to tell him how boring doc is.
Reply #26 Wednesday, October 28, 2009 4:50 PM
Yeah, let's not talk about my being Vampy's "hero", and that kinda stuff! 
Reply #27 Wednesday, October 28, 2009 5:25 PM
Sending out my prayers to both of you through this anxious time.
Reply #29 Wednesday, October 28, 2009 5:44 PM
Our thoughts and prayers go out to your wife, you and your family.
Reply #31 Wednesday, October 28, 2009 6:21 PM
So sorry to hear this, Jim. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your wife. I hope everything turns out okay.
Reply #32 Wednesday, October 28, 2009 6:35 PM
well I don't pray but here's hoping everything turns out okay.
and on a lighter note.. her email address gave me a laugh 
Reply #33 Wednesday, October 28, 2009 6:39 PM
Nope....informative is a better adjective.... 
I wish you and your wife well, Jim ....
Reply #34 Wednesday, October 28, 2009 6:49 PM
I don't pray, but for what it's worth, she will be in my thoughts and I do hope it's nothing serious.
Reply #35 Wednesday, October 28, 2009 6:56 PM
Doc, your words are encouraging, as are all the other responses! Thanks guys, you all are the best! 
Reply #36 Wednesday, October 28, 2009 7:09 PM
You are both in my thoughts and prayers Jim.
Reply #37 Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:04 PM
Hey, Jim, here's hoping all is well and that it's only a minor irritation caused by the popcorn. I know what it's like to have somebody near and dear not feeling the best, so let's all hope meds will fix it and you and yours can be on your merry way.
Reply #38 Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:41 PM
Sorry I'm late to the thread ....pesky job thing.
My thoughts and prayers are with you both. I hope everything goes well and Lisa has a speedy recovery.
Thanks to everyone for the get well wishes for my good friends.
Reply #39 Wednesday, October 28, 2009 10:24 PM
....daerht siht ni sdraswkcab tuo semoc gnipyt ym
Reply #40 Wednesday, October 28, 2009 10:32 PM
this is actually sydney.....I'm just signed in on v's account......I've tried half a dozen times to reply to this this morning....and everytime...my typing comes out backwards....only in this thread...so...go figure...
just wanted to say.....I know how horrible it is waiting around for test results like this....keep her busy....make her laugh....humour always helps to lighten the stress....either way....you've jumped on the problem quickly....will be thinking of you...and hoping for the best....
syd
edit...
Ooo...might give myself some karma..... 
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Reply #21 Wednesday, October 28, 2009 3:50 PM
Thanks guys for the posts here, the emails, and PMs. My wife enjoyed a poem, and some very nice words of encouragement in her mailbox.
I'm not going to names names....you know who you are. All of this is appreciated. She is reading this post too. She isn't a member.