I am caring for my ex-husband who was dx'd back in Nov. of '07 w/a large 11 cm left lung tumor. (He just turned 45 y.o.) He had very aggressive treatment of etopiside/cistoplatin and concurrent radiation therapy (33 sessions) and finished at the end of April. He was told that the treatment was successful and that he was basically cancer-free for now. He then had 15 PCI treatments in June. Once the initial fatigue wore off from the PCI he had about 2 weeks of feeling pretty good in late July. (He has other medical conditions going on that have been exacerbated from the chemo/rad and that is another issue.)
My main question is.....is it normal to continue to cough/vomit up bright yellow (flourescent looking) sputum every morning? He has continued to do this throughout treatment and it doesn't seem to be getting any better. We tell his oncologist every time we see him that he is still doing this but he doesn't say anything about it being normal or not. He did have a bout of mild pneumonia in early August and was put on antibiotics and his lungs now seem to be clear. Chest X-rays have been taken and other than the damage from radiation everything looks okay. I don't get it.
He also has vague but persistent pain behind his left shoulder blade that x-rays have not shown to be anything. It obviously gets worse when he coughs. Has anyone else experienced this? Is it normal? I don't know whether I should be worried or not or whether I should be getting pushy with the doc. Please give me some insight. It's been a very long year and we keep hearing that he will start to feel better but it's just not happening.
Thanks,
Sunrey
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