Lung Cancer Support Group

Hi, How are you doing? How is your Mom? I know it's terribly hard and a huge responsibility for a son to bear. No one ever thinks that this will happen to them. It's good for her to make plans-that means she sees a future beyond cancer. You have to encourage her not to sabotage her future by gambling it away.
My husband has cancer and I'm about your moms age. We have 2 sons, ages 30 & 17 and a daughter 13. My advice to my family and to yours is patience, support and love-and it sounds to me like that is exactly what you are showing your mom now.
My thoughts are with you!

GloinAq,
Thanks you right. I hope you guys are well also. I guess I am just bitter. You know I am not in the fron line (I live out of the house), but will assume a lot of the responsibility once my mom gets really sick. I wish you the best also as I immagine the situation you are in, husband ill with a young daughter. I too have a 15 year old sister who will live with my wife and I once all this settles. God, I dont know if to wish for the clock to go forward, stand still or go back :(

Oh Navy Man! Wish for anything except being 15 again :) I don't think I'd live through it. LOL. I'm sorry you're going through this with your mother. When I was diagnosed my first thought was my husband and adult daughter. I love them very much, they're my strength and I believe they're the reason doing as well as I am. I've had surgery and am nearly through chemo for stage IIIB lung cancer. Like I told the doc, if it weren't for having to show up for chemo, I'd forget I was ill. I wonder if your mother is having the same thoughts? We'd both like to believe we've been cured, and it's hard not to elieve that some days. All I can do is see each day as a gift, take care of my husband like he's taking care of me, and enjoy our life together. Can you talk to you mother's doctors about her new found love of gambling? There are medications that seem to cause this. Maybe that's the problem, or something else neurological. I hope you find the answer and find some peace for your self in the meantime.

My husband was a truck driver and got sick while out on the road. He was diagnosed with pneumonia in March @ a facility in Tx and got sick again & was diagnosed with SCLC April 30,2009. He went to the emergency room for upper quadrant & abdominal pain last year, they did an xray, saw a mass in his lung and didn't tell him anything about it so he could f/u on it. So when he fell ill in April that is when we found out about it and it is to late. By the time he was diagnosed it had already spread to brain and other places. He had 6 chemo tx (they even changed the regimen bc the first meds didn't work, he had 15 radiation tx to the brain. He had a PET Scan in Sep and the doc said the chemo didn't do any good. He lost a lot of weight during chemo, but has gained a few lbs since ending chemo in August. He has gotten weaker in the last week, he won't sleep. He says he is afraid to sleep. I just don't know if he is going to live or not. I have been trying to read on the different signs of approaching death and I believe he is showing some. I am trying to prepare myself. Can you all share some info with me.