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    Posted: 11 Apr 2017 at 2:21pm
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.  

Your story among many others has been inspiration for me to try to quit again.
Started the Chantix program and today it's been 4 weeks since I had a smoke.
Impossible to know if I can continue on this life-path, but so far so good.
Thanks for sharing and hope your recovery continues to go well.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Apr 2017 at 2:56pm
When our girls were young, we were visiting my wife's sister and husband. My brother-in-law lit up in front of them. The girls said, "You smoke uncle Tommy? That stinks!"

He put out the cigarette and that was it. Unfortunately, my wife's sister still smokes like a chimney and blames her persistent cough on her "just getting over a cold."

The point is, if the incentive to quit is strong enough, you can succeed. It is worth doing so. My grandparents had COPD and I lost at least one uncle to lung cancer.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Apr 2017 at 4:09pm
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!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 May 2017 at 4:12pm
tomorrow is my last chemo treatment. so for the next week I will fell like crap. end of June they will do more test to see now it went. so far it has shrunk by 1/2 and looks like swiss cheese
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 May 2017 at 6:24pm
Thank you for the update. I hope and pray the last chemo treatment will knock it out the rest of the way.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 May 2017 at 8:06pm
Great news!  Thanks for keeping us posted.  Your experiences rekindle what I went through 27 years ago; the chemo experience is something one never forgets.  Very thankful I have been granted this much life after being given a 40% chance of beating it back in 1990.  may you have many years ahead being able to enjoy life and enjoying God's great outdoors.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Aug 2017 at 9:31am
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  
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