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Family members and caregivers
Support for family members and caregivers of those diagnosed with lung cancer.
Discussion leaders: SabineTawni, Chanwit and amymaura
Mom's SCLC- and my frustrations
- By Captain_Red · New reply 8:45 pm
- 5 replies
- I haven't been around for the past few months. I'm just needing to unload. May, mom was diagnosed SCLC, but it was early stages, with a dime size tumor. (she was getting a CAT scan or something when they ...
Any News about Haley??
- By Chi-Dreamer · New reply 11:31 am
- 4 replies
- Has anyone heard anything about Haley? It has been awhile since her mother last post. I tried to google her blog and could not find it. Linda ...
please pray for Jim and Dorothy
- By Gwynne · New reply 10:25 am
- 8 replies
- Please pray for a miracle for my step dad Jim who was just diagnosed with lung cancer 2 months ago. He was strong and ready to fight. Now he is in bed on morphine and was told the radiation treatments ...
Missing My Mom....
- By jmichelle · New reply November 4, 2009
- 17 replies
- This has been a rough week for me. Of course I'm now dealing with My Dad's diagnosis of SCLC in the last month. Thank goodness he is feeling good and responding well to his treatment. Yesterday, 9-29-09 ...
Moms PET scan
- By Niks · New reply November 4, 2009
- 6 replies
- Well the results from my mom's PET scan results came back. Her PCP delivered it like a death sentence. She definently has lung cancer. Most likely adenocarcinoma. She has a large tumor in her left lung ...
Signs from my mom
- By Carol40 · New reply November 2, 2009
- 43 replies
- My mom passed away on April 22, 2008. I've had a few signs from her since her passing. 1 - Two days after her passing I took home her canvas bag that was full of her poetry. Not only did she have her ...
I HAD A BONAFIDE TANTRUM--
- By LIONHEARTEDSwife · New reply November 1, 2009
- 20 replies
- I was so frustrated yesterday I had a real tantrum. I mean I sat on the floor, kicked my feet, hit myself in the head, cried and called myself unbelievably bad names. All because there are no words to ...
Try to Laugh About It All: Best and Worst Said to You Since Diagnosis?
- By terrywind · New reply November 1, 2009
- 53 replies
- Worst: "We were talking and we decided that if you had to be married to anybody while going through lung cancer, you're the one to be married to." Best: "Whatever happens, I will be beside you and I WILL ...
Philadelphia Pa 5k
- By ati5571 · New reply October 31, 2009
- 4 replies
- Is anyone walking/running the Free to Breath 5K in Philadelphia on 11/1. Please let me know, and maybe we can meet up. I would love for my mom and I to mee some of you guys. You are all awesome!!! Let ...
Need your help please!
- By luvmymom · New reply October 28, 2009
- 10 replies
- Hello everyone I'm looking for some much needed help/advice. My mom was dx end of August with Stage IV Squamous NSCLC. She received 2 low dose carbo/taxol chemo treatments and 18 radiation treatments ...
Eating
- By Gwynne · New reply October 26, 2009
- 2 replies
- My dad was just diagnosed with lung cancer 7 weeks ago. He is in the hospital getting aggressive radiation treatments. He had his 5th one today and can not breathe when he tries to eat. He has lost 40 ...
Think we are close to end with dad
- By hopefulchick · New reply October 26, 2009
- 13 replies
- My dad was diagnosed with stage IV non-small cell lung cancer in Oct 2008... He has bone mets in spine, legs, arms, ribs... his spine has bone fractures and is very deformed. Hospice was brought in ...
Trying to gather friends im in need of support
- By dani123 · New reply October 23, 2009
- 20 replies
- Hello My name is Danielle im 24yrs old, I lost my dad on Thursday to NSCLC 7 months from dx, he was only 46 and never smoked in his life we dont understand why this has happened to him when he had so ...
Suwaree, my wife wants to say ‘GOOD BYE’ to you.
- By ponnatee · New reply October 23, 2009
- 94 replies
- Dear Brothers, Sisters and Friends, “First of all, I would like to thank you for your prayers during my battle with cancer for these six years. Lots of miracles have become testimonies to many people ...
Stage 4 Second Line Treatment Options?
- By pnut · New reply October 22, 2009
- 8 replies
- Hi and prayers to all of you who are battling this horrible disease. I need some input. My dad was dignosed with NSCLC Stage 4, Squamous Cell in May 2009. His cancer is in both lungs and there was "some ...
3rd Week almost done
- By amanda-100 · New reply October 21, 2009
- 7 replies
- Firstly sorry have not been around much, have been online everyday but just couldn't think what to say to anyone. Ray completed his third chemo on Tues and doesn't seem to be having to hard a time on ...
Rather than cursing illness, she encouraged people
- By ponnatee · New reply October 20, 2009
- 7 replies
- Dear friends, I am writing to tell you that Suwaree, my dear wife, is home with the Lord. She passed away very peacefully this Saturday morning of September 19, 2009 at 7:43 a.m. (exactly one month ago ...
Is this the beginning of the end?
- By MelodyG · New reply October 16, 2009
- 9 replies
- My mother in law was diagnosed January 2009 with stage IV NSCLC. She chose a clinical trial that consisted of the trial drug, carboplatin and taxol. After 3 treatments, she was too weak to go on, so we ...
Newbie with Questions Re: Dad
- By bethkiley · New reply October 15, 2009
- 22 replies
- I hope someone here can offer some advice. My dad who is 81 had a prolonged cough which led to coughing up some blood, then a chest xray, then a CT and now a pet scan and his pulmonary doctor has concluded ...
My dad passed away from sepsis...why?
- By ttbmaat · New reply October 14, 2009
- 16 replies
- I know I haven't posted much, but I have read many many stories. Many of them I found to be encouraging. My dad was dx with stage IV adenocarcinoma of the lung with mets in June of 2006. He was feeling ...