Day 1 - I was spitting up green and yellow with some brick colored blood. I had no fever.
Day 3 - I went to my doctor and he sent me for a chest x-ray.
Day 5 - the chest x-ray came back positive for something in upper right lobe of lung and I was sent for a ct scan of chest.
Day 7 - my doctor indicated that ct scan showed something positive also in upper right lobe of lung. I elected to see a thorasic surgeon (my 1st mistake) in houston.
Day 9 - I brought my chest x-ray and ct scan to houston. By day 9, my chest had cleared up, hardly spitting up green or yellow, and no blood - I had taken some antihistamines. The surgeon said this must come out and scheduled surgery for removal of my upper right lobe of my lung on day 11 even though my chest had cleared up quite a bit.
Day 11 - my upper lobe of right lung was removed - patholgy report indicated bronchioloalveolar carcinoma then changed to "severe acute and organizing pneumonia with abcess formation"

q: did I loose the upper lobe of my lung for nothing, should I have been treated with antibiotics 1st, maybe a broncoscopy, I am really short of breath now. The doctor said I would not miss it the upper lobe. That is not the case so far.

Thanks, bill