Retired from Chrysler
I thought it was sinus
They took nine samples
It was a small cell cancer
Describing the pain
Cancer in my family
About six months prior to knowing I had cancer, I said doctor "I got a pain here and then one in the back here." Then it would be in my nose and up above in my eye. I attributed it to sinus because I do have a sinus problem. He gave some pills. That Sunday morning I got up and I made the coffee and was making toast. I had a cough, like a cough of phlegm. I spit and there was a bit of blood. So we went to see the doctor Monday. He said "I just got through taking x-rays of you," and I said, "Doctor, you've never taken an x-ray of me." He had mine mixed up with my son's. And so then he had me go to Oakland Hospital. I went through the bone scan and the MRI. So he referred me to Harper Hospital. I went through all the tests all over again there because they had to find out definitely.