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I had a major operation about seven years ago and I coughed all night post op. I was in pain and I kept the other ladies on the ward awake with my coughing. I was a smoker and I have never smoked a cigarette since. If you are determined enough you can quit smoking.

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I had a horrible time giving up, but if anything would make me want a puff again it would be a cancer diagnosis. I used to love smoking but like you it caused respiratory problems and I stopped just in time to head that off.

Hopefully for Ffosse this is Hodgkins again because that's one of the most successfully treated cancers. It won't be long before we have really great cures for all these cancers and chemotherapy will be no more. People are working on that as I type.

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Unfortunately the Haemotology team seem to believe that this isn’t Hodgkins again as that site for a Hodgkins tumour would be written up in medical literature by now. Truth is: no-one knows and it will take a week to find out - meanwhile I remain under their care and the steroids seem to be having a positive affect.

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That is good and sorry for me mentioning I smoke.
I am going to give up soon, it was my recent loss that made me smoke more again.
Shame on me.

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You do smoke more in times of stress, I know because I have been there and done that. I stopped overnight, crushed my remaining pack of cigarettes. There weren't any electronic cigarettes at the time I stopped smoking. Quitting isn't easy, takes a lot of willpower. Worth quitting for the health benefits and saves so much money.

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There is no real shame in smoking; if you can keep it to as few as possible cigarettes a day, all the better.

But I think you would like vaping, Sweetir.

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Well the steroids having a positive effect is a great sign. Yes of course silly me there's not lymph node there. But I am keeping my fingers crossed.

They have nearly completed the first NHS proton beam therapy centre in Manchester and they will start treating patients this year. That will remove a lot of the risk from any op needed on such a site. Next year they will be opening one in London too.

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Oh no, you’re quite right to highlight the positives (I have a tendency to catastophise and that just brings everything down).

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You are both right. I will do it!
But for now, let's all support Dreamy through this difficult time.

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Ffosse, good to hear that the procedure is done.

It could also be benign. Hopeful there.