Shared Stories
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Tom M. I was diagnosed with IPF in 2019 and have been wearing oxygen for a little over a year now.
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Mary M. My PCP recommended the low dose CT scan two years ago for me due to my history of smoking. My mother passed six years ago from small cell lung cancer due to smoking and I just had a second cousin who died with the same, from smoking.
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Terril M. I come from a family scarred by IPF. I'm a nurse practitioner, who noticed clubbing of the fingers, when my dad, a lifelong smoker, was struggling to breath. I assumed he had COPD, but his doctor told him it was IPF. He died in 1998.
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Mary M. My mother was a smoker all of her life. She died three years ago of lung cancer. This is the most difficult thing to go through as a family member watching your loved one whittle away in front of your eyes.
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Mary B. I saw the commercial of the woman who had quit smoking, climbing the hill of cigarette butts, and got a screen. It was easy and quick.
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Staci D. My mother passed away of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis a few days ago. She had it for a few years, but was misdiagnosed. If only I had gotten involved in her care sooner, maybe I could have helped.
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Mary B. In Jan. 2013 I had a CT prior to an endo/colonoscopy to determine the reason for abdominal pain. I found our I had gallstones and needed surgery.
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Marvin C. Just a little over two years ago in mid-July 2015, I developed double-vision in my right eye only. Initially, various doctors thought it was diabetes related or a neuromuscular disorder (Myastenia Gravis).
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Martha S. In August of 2008, at 65 years old, I was undergoing physical therapy at a medical facility where I noticed a poster advertising low dose CT scans for early detection of lung cancer
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Pam C. I started coughing from what I thought was a virus in November 2011. It never went away.
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Marjorie L. My husband insisted I get a chest x-ray (which the doctor didn't think I needed) because even though I was getting over the flu, he said my cough sounded different.
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Ron S. Five years ago, I started noticing that I was a little short of breath for a man in his early 60s, but I contributed it to being a little out of shape.
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Mariann C. I joined the LUNG FORCE Walk because I was diagnosed in October 2015 with Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. I can't believe October 2020 will be 5 years since I received the life changing diagnosis of lung cancer.
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Robert W. I’m 89 years old and I developed a hacking cough when I was 88 years old, so I went on esbreit and had to stop because of side effects.
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Maria R.
