My doc was happy and surprised, no necrosis going on. He was like, "Keep it up with the garlic then, it should be much worse at this point." 
My PCP is no utter barrel of laughs, he was super happy I quit, but he examined ALL my exrays sequentially and came up with this, "So, I want you to go in 6 weeks if you remain stopped, to get ANOTHER chest x-ray" (due to ignoring one of my pneumonias, but I didn't really exactly know what was wrong with me, I let it go for a few months and have a bit of small scarring in my lower left lobe) "since it's probably scarring, but in case it's, you know, lung cancer, well, we'd want to know that."
My reply: "PCP, I have NO problems doing that at ALL, if that's the case, I'd want to know, too...." My poor PCP is super cautious (I guess reasonably) with me and my medical issues, he was totally convinced that I had throat cancer, to the point that I was consoling him at the time. I was like, "Dude, if I do, I probably deserve it, and it's not like I haven't had a good run of things, I mean, my kid's grown, I've had a mostly happy life, if it's throat cancer I will deal with it." LOL, he looked so WHITE as he examined my chart (one of my other docs was convinced it was allergies and we tried every anti-histamine on earth, so I'd been hoarse for awhile.... He was so freaked out I called him from the ENT, like, immediately.
I can't wait until all this stupid health stuff is BEHIND me, not ahead of me. I did not stop to consider if I would resume cigarettes if I have lung cancer, but I've decided to think about that only if, and when, it happens. I think I'm fine, I'm pretty hardy, but who KNOWS.
Anna
My PCP is no utter barrel of laughs, he was super happy I quit, but he examined ALL my exrays sequentially and came up with this, "So, I want you to go in 6 weeks if you remain stopped, to get ANOTHER chest x-ray" (due to ignoring one of my pneumonias, but I didn't really exactly know what was wrong with me, I let it go for a few months and have a bit of small scarring in my lower left lobe) "since it's probably scarring, but in case it's, you know, lung cancer, well, we'd want to know that."
My reply: "PCP, I have NO problems doing that at ALL, if that's the case, I'd want to know, too...." My poor PCP is super cautious (I guess reasonably) with me and my medical issues, he was totally convinced that I had throat cancer, to the point that I was consoling him at the time. I was like, "Dude, if I do, I probably deserve it, and it's not like I haven't had a good run of things, I mean, my kid's grown, I've had a mostly happy life, if it's throat cancer I will deal with it." LOL, he looked so WHITE as he examined my chart (one of my other docs was convinced it was allergies and we tried every anti-histamine on earth, so I'd been hoarse for awhile.... He was so freaked out I called him from the ENT, like, immediately.
I can't wait until all this stupid health stuff is BEHIND me, not ahead of me. I did not stop to consider if I would resume cigarettes if I have lung cancer, but I've decided to think about that only if, and when, it happens. I think I'm fine, I'm pretty hardy, but who KNOWS.
Anna
