My name is Brian Kissinger.  In February of 2010, I was unbelievably diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer.  I had come down with a bad case of pneumonia, and rushed  to the hospital.  I was terrified because my son, Braydon was only a few months old, and I didn't want to get him sick too.  After suffering from a constant cough for over a year, that was diagnosed as asthma,  I wasn't allowed  to leave the hospital.  The CT tech, and the doctor on call, chased me down as I was leaving.  They wanted to run some more tests.  The tech tried to calm me with "I'm sure it's nothing,"  but the look on the doctor's face said otherwise.  After a battery of tests and procedures, my doctor called and apologized, that he had to tell me, I had cancer.  I had a rare type of Lung Cancer, and it's stage IV.  At 33, healthy and someone who had never smoked, I was so shocked, I didn't even understand what he was telling me.  I had to have him spell the type of cancer four times, I couldn't even seem to write it down correctly.  

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