Karen Thomas:  

I met up with Cheryl (Gillenwater) Porter on facebook, she's the only person I've talked to from Frayser High. She hsa a beautiful fanily. Also I wanted to share that I was diagnosed with Small Cell Lung Cancer in January 2010. The GREAT NEWS IS, I'M CANCER FREE NOW!! SO I GUESS I'M A CANCER SURVIVOR!!!!!! Thanks to my team of doctors from THE WEST CLININC!!! They set up a plan for me, starting with weeks of Chemo, 33 radiation treatments on my left lung ( where the tumor was found during a CT scan on my chest). I went to the ER because I couldn't hardly breathe! They said I had pneumonia and admitted me immediatly to ICU, that's how sick I was! I stayed there for 12 days while they ran all kinds of tests! The tumor was the siize of a lemon in my left lung..The Chemo alone shrunk it 90%!! My oncologist was blown away! SO were we! He said in all his years of fightin...Expand for more