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A dear friend of my family was just diagnosed with lung cancer.
She is young, vital, and dedicates so much of her free time to helping out in the High School, she is an amazing woman.
Tonight her son who is very close to my kids came over in tears and asked me if I would be honest with him. Her tests today came back showing that the stage 3 cancer is in her lymph nodes, and she has lesions on her brain. She begins radiation therapy tomorrow.
Her son wanted to know if there was a chance of the radiation shrinking the lesions in her brain. I told him there is always a chance, and to try and keep a positive attitude, love and support his Mom and pray.
Please my friends, keep her and her family in your prayers. She and her husband and children are wonderful people and are in for the fight of their lives.
I think the issue with cancer is the Stage (which in your friends case is not good) and the type and the person's history. Obviously lung cancer is not a great one to get.
I feel for you helping your friend. I have had my own tremendous health issues. I do know that going to radiaiton and chemo is very very difficult. I hope she has a lot of support and care.
Prays and hugs for you, and for your friend and her family. Life can sure throw some cruel and painful blows at us, but yet somehow we carry on. In the words of Rick Tippe "yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift, that's why it's called the present.
Prayers are on the way to your friend's family as well as yours. If you go to the Lance Armstrong Foundation website there is a huge amount of information available. www.laf.org You can also get a free treatment notebook. I did this for a friend's spouse. She needed to feel useful while he was going through his treatment for kidney cancer. Remember there is always hope. To me this was the most useful website because it deals with all aspects a cancer patient goes through from the informative to the practical everyday things. There are also great stories of survivalship, some which weren't suppose to survive.
Love and blessings to you and your family as well as your friend's.
Live strong,
Karilynn
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It's your life. Take no prisoners. You will have it your way.
People often say things like, there's new drugs out there every day so keep your chin up. Well, that is a good saying. I have a close friend who was diagnosed with terminal cancer. They gave her 6 months tops. It was lungs and brain.
During her treatments they asked her to try a new drug called Evastin and be part of a study. That was 2 years ago. The drug does not make the cancer go away, but allows it to "float around" the body and not stick and grow.
There is always hope. Maybe your friend would qualify to use it.
Prayers coming for all of you.
Take care of you!
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"Good judgement comes from experience... experience comes from bad judgement" - unknown