I quit smoking 4 1/2 years ago after 30+ years of smoking. I had a CT lung screen in 2017 but I picked up smoking again until fall 2018 when I finally quit for good. My doctor never mentioned getting another one even though he knew I had gone back to smoking for several months. Fast forward to this year. In March I had an appointment with the nurse who suggested I get another CT scan because I had started again for those 7 months in early 2018. I thought all would be good but sadly I was wrong. The screening came back as pulminary fibrosis - a progressive disease that the tissue around the air sacs becomes stiff and loses its functionality. I won't know how bad or a prognosis until June (I had to wait 3 months before they had an opening!!) but I thank God for the nurse or this would have gone undiagnosed until I had symptoms. I am being proactive and really leaning in to my all-organic and all-natural diet, positive attitude, meditation and am restarting my Reiki self-healing. With God's help I pray to live a long time. So dear friends no matter what, be proactive and ask your doctor for a CT scan. Don't wait, your life might depend on it.
Julie
1700 Days Quit
