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What, exactly, are functioning lungs?
Sep. 19th, 2024 10:28 pmToday I had to explain to the oncologist of the week that actually, I don't have all that coherent a reference point for "my lungs are great".
One of the stories of my childhood was how I wouldn't stop coughing until my dad took me outside and the cold air managed to calm my lungs down.
I had undiagnosed asthma, allergies, and deviated septum throughout my youth. I started getting the allergies treated in my 20s, the asthma treated in my late 30s, and the deviated septum was only treated not quite two years ago.
Since then, my lungs have been pretty great!
I'm pretty confident that based on the description of how the immunotherapy is known to Annoy lungs, I could probably spot it, especially because it tends to cause coughing. But, uh. Mild shortness of breath? Hardly even registers.
(Today was blood tests, oncologist, and then immunotherapy infusion. I see them-all again in another 6 weeks. This is a much more comfortable pace than chemotherapy, and the chemotherapy was unpleasant to boot.)
[Edit: we'd started immunotherapy at the same time as chemotherapy, and it's been going every 6 weeks since chemo ended; this was just a new discussion since I've been occasionally dizzy.]
One of the stories of my childhood was how I wouldn't stop coughing until my dad took me outside and the cold air managed to calm my lungs down.
I had undiagnosed asthma, allergies, and deviated septum throughout my youth. I started getting the allergies treated in my 20s, the asthma treated in my late 30s, and the deviated septum was only treated not quite two years ago.
Since then, my lungs have been pretty great!
I'm pretty confident that based on the description of how the immunotherapy is known to Annoy lungs, I could probably spot it, especially because it tends to cause coughing. But, uh. Mild shortness of breath? Hardly even registers.
(Today was blood tests, oncologist, and then immunotherapy infusion. I see them-all again in another 6 weeks. This is a much more comfortable pace than chemotherapy, and the chemotherapy was unpleasant to boot.)
[Edit: we'd started immunotherapy at the same time as chemotherapy, and it's been going every 6 weeks since chemo ended; this was just a new discussion since I've been occasionally dizzy.]
