Thanks to each of you. - Cancer: Lung Message Board

scrum · 06-03-2003, 03:13 PM

I just wanted to take a minute to thank each of you for the time that you spend posting to this board. I personally have never experienced cancer, but both my wifes parents have been stricken with this dreaded disease. Her mother has been given only a few months at most after a 18 month battle with ovarian cancer. The cancer has now spread to her liver and abdomen wall. She has stopped all treatments and now is on hospice.

My wifes dad has "moderately - differentiated squamous cell carcinoma" in the "left lingular lobe of lung" apparently close to his heart. The tumor appeard to be te size of a golf ball and has not spread outside the lung. They estimate that he has had the cancer for about two years. The doctors did tell him that what he had did appear to be a "slow" growing cancer. My father in law has had 35 radiation treatments as well as several chemo treatments. We are waiting to hear on the success of these treatments.

Does any of this sound familiar? With what I have read lung cancer is very difficult to deal with once spread, but what about when it is contained within the lung? If the treatment has been successful dad has said that he is going to have the thing removed, including the lung if necessary. My wife is completely devistated over this situation and the thought of loosing both parents is almost more than she can comprehend. She and her Mom are best friends and she is not accepting the soon to come loss of her Mom very well.

One other thing, I read several posts from Hope in Memphis, TN. I live very close to Memphis and Hope if you would like to talk or have a way that my Wife could contact you it would be so appreciated.

Thanks again to all of you for the support that you give and may Gods comforting hands surround each of you.

Stacy.

hope1220 · 06-09-2003, 03:55 PM

Obviously I feel a great sadness and concern for your wife and her situation and look for a post from the two of you every time I visit the board - please let us know how they are doing. I thought I would post and get this thread back up there so maybe you would see it. Yall are in my prayers daily. Hope B.

scrum · 06-10-2003, 04:07 PM

Thanks Hope for the reply. My wifes mom is not doing well. She now sleeps about 20 hours a day. She is not in any pain and is very alert once awake. She does not eat very much at all. She has started talking at times about her funeral and who she wants to inherit what. It is very sad. My wife is holding up fairly good on the outside, but inside she is hurting so bad. I can see it in her eyes. The tears don't come as often but they are there.

Her Dad did not get a very good report on his lung cancer. It appears that the radiation did not shrink the tumor as much as desired so they have resumed his chemo treatments (not the radiation). Is there a limit to the amount of radiation that a person can take. The tumor is still to large to remove. He is determained to live long enough to take care of his wife, but I am not sure about past that. We will take one day at a time. That is all that we can do at this point.

I did try to send you an email but I could not get it to deliver ( some problem with our server at work). I hope you are doing ok. Please keep my family in your prayers. Thanks.

Stacy.