cancer

Originally posted by osage  Well was just dio. with stage 3 lung cancer will start treatment next week. Was my fault for smoking . So if you are still smoking PLEASE QUIT !!!!!!! yes I know it won't happen  to you but it can.  looks like we may have caught it in time but won't know until after the treatments both radetion  and cemo.

Back in the mid-70's, my mother was in the hospital with cancer.  Hard to believe, but is was when you were allowed to smoke in hospitals! My parents always smoked when I was growing up, and then I began to smoke.  When I visited my mother this time, I pulled out a cigarette to light up and she looked at me and said "how can you smoke when I am so sick?". She meant it in a way to startle me that one day I could be battling cancer like her so she wanted me to stop smoking.  That was the catalyst for me.  I put the cigarette out, tossed the pack in the trash and never smoked again.  That was 1975, and I have never smoked again since.  Bama Pod, I am rooting for you!  You are off to a great start!

Thank you for the update. I hope and pray the last chemo treatment will knock it out the rest of the way.

well I go in tomorrow to have the upper lobe of the left lung removed. they say I'm doing this backwards as they usely  remove the cancer first then treatment but now mine is small enough to remove after all the treatments. Mom always said I was built backwards my nose ran and my feet smelled