What a kick to the teeth...

[nebby3103]

Story #3: My father was told he had lung cancer three year ago. He since has beaten it... or so we thought. He coughed up some blood a few weeks ago. His doc's told him it was nothing and just put him on some inhalers and antibiotics thinking it was bronchitis. His cough wasn't going away or anything so we went back to his cancer doc today with me. They stuck a microscope down his nose into his lung and took a look around. There they found a few small tumors in his right lung. What a bite in the butt was that to hear that. He had part of his right lung removed three years ago... and hardly made it though all the chemo. So yeah I'm not sure what his Dr.'s and such are going to do and such. He is in his 60's and not in good health so I highly doubt he will be able to do chemo again just from before. If they do chemo I'll be either attempting to work two full time jobs OR three part time jobs to support us.... like I did three years ago.

I'm very sorry to hear about your father. I'm actually going through now what you went through a few years ago. My Dad is currently recovering from a thoracotomy he had three weeks ago during which 1/3 of his right lung was removed in order to do away with a small malignant tumor. One of the several lymph nodes they removed from the area was also malignant, so he will be starting his first of four rounds of chemotherapy on Thursday. He's 57 years old and has never smoked a day in a his life, nor does he have any of the other "risk factors" for lung cancer. Best of luck to your father, you and the rest of the family. I'm sure he can beat it. Stay positive (I know it's not easy )

EDIT: OH! Another crazy coincidence: I'm also [discussing] getting back together with a very serious girlfriend of over a year after three months apart. Marriage? Well, we try not to utter the "M-word" at this point. Our friends know, and we've already been thouroughly verbally assaulted (at least she has, my friends don't much care).