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My body is a garden of tumors!

Every year new tumors grow. As I said in my last entry, I have pulmonary nodules.   I also have this weird blob like thing in the right side of my lung. I have been monitored to make sure they remained stable, etc. They were first found when I had a PET scan last August (the PET was done to ensure my NF tumor wasn't cancer and to see if my liver tumor was visable- there was no liver tumor as other MRI's suggested). I had a follow up in November- no change. I was actually excited to get a chest CT at the time I did- I haven't been breathing right. I don't feel that 'refreshed' feeling when I take in a deep breath. In order to get that 'refreshed feeling' I have to REALLY breathe in HARD. So I wanted to see if the nodules were bothering my airways (I was told they could bother my airways, so I assume my nodules are the culprit) Well this is what it says now: (this is my CT scan) Lungs and airways: Examination of the lungs demonstrates that the 1cm gr