A weird noise in Melissa’ s throat reminds her of a‘ scuba diver’
Melissa said she first suspected something was wrong in February.
“ The noise in my throat sounded like a scuba diver when I breathed in all the way,” she said.
Melissa thought it was an issue with her throat, so she went to an ear, nose and throat doctor who didn’ t find anything suspicious.
Dizziness and headaches followed, she said.
About three months later, her primary care physician told Melissa she heard possible wheezing in her lungs. The doctor ordered an X‐ray and diagnosed her with pneumonia.
The doctor prescribed two antibiotics and Melissa hoped the drugs would soon make a difference.
Maddie and Ryan Miller’ s home in Ellet, Ohio contains a PVC pipe that acts as an exhaust pipe for the radon gas to exit the home.
But there was no improvement after three days.“ Now I’ ve got a cough, too,” she recalled.
Her primary care doctor advised Melissa to schedule an appointment with a pulmonologist, suspecting she might need IV antibiotics to conquer the pneumonia. But her symptoms were worsening before she could make an appointment.
At one point, she was driving and hit two curbs.
“ I told my husband,‘ I can’ t drive,’” Melissa said.“ He said,‘ Let’ s go to the emergency room.’”
It was June 1.
“ I told them the whole story of what was going on and when I said‘ headaches,’ I saw the doctor’ s eyebrows go up,” she said.
That doctor ordered a CT scan and discovered Melissa didn’ t have pneumonia. The test showed Melissa had more than 50 tumors – often called lesions – on her brain.
A CT scan of her chest showed a mass on her lung, along with some enlarged lymph nodes, including one that was in an area above her clavicle, her doctor later recalled.