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<p>anxiousmom: So sorry. Good energy to you and your mom.</p>

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<p>Anxiousmom, your MIL will join those here included in many prayers. Best to you and your family.</p>

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<p>anxiousmom, </p>

<p>I am sorry to read of your MILā€™s diagnosis and know that these things come as a great shock without warning. Once past the shock, I hope that she is on a positive road to recovery, taking it one step at a time. LatetoSchool is an inspriration as far as fighting this disease with courage!! I will send positive thoughts your way, along with those being sent out across the miles to LTS. Itā€™s a difficult road and a challenge. My father had lung cancer as well. :frowning: </p>

<p>LTSā€¦thinking of you and hoping this week is a positive one!</p>

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<p>Anxiousmom, your MIL are in our prayers.</p>

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<p>Thank you all! It is such a shock, especially as I have been reading LTSā€™s thread here so intently for the last few weeks, and even doing some research on the internet on things that Iā€™ve read hereā€¦ and then to have her call with the news that she has lung cancerā€¦ I guess there was a reason for that interest and research, and hopefully I can share (if and when she is ready) some of the stuff Iā€™ve read here. Iā€™m surprised that she is not scheduled to see the oncologist until February 14th. I would have thought that they would rush to start chemo right away?? And they havenā€™t told her what type it is yet, even though the biopsy results have come backā€¦ I donā€™t think she wants to know all the details yet - she just found out today and that is enough for one day! My husband (itā€™s his mom) shared with me a quote from a zen book that he likes. It goes something like this, ā€œLife is like setting sail on a ship that you know is going to sink.ā€ Still, it is awful to think that it might sink so soonā€¦</p>

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<p>anxiousmom - so sorry to hear about this. Iā€™m wondering if youā€™re in Texas if she has explored the resources available at M.D. Anderson. My father had sclc and his had metasticized to the brain before they found it (he was having seizures in his right hand, so they did an MRI and found it that way - they originally thought it was recurrent malignant melanoma, but further scans showed it to be lung cancer). He got some wonderful palliative treatment at M.D. Anderson, but they lived there, so it was convenient. M.D. Anderson was also where my grandma went at age 99 when ovarian cancer caused an intestinal blockage and she had to have emergency surgery with a colostomy. Stubborn as she was, right after we celebrated her 100th birthday, she demanded to go back in and have the colostomy reversed, which she did; then she lived another year and a half.</p>

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<p>anxiousmom:</p>

<p>I check this thread every day for news about and from LTS. I am so sorry to hear about your mother-in-law! I hope that she is in good health otherwise. We see from LTSā€™ experience that it can make a lot of difference. Also having the spirit to fight this monster. Let her know that she has lots of cyber-support.</p>

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<p>anxiousmom-
So sorry to hear of the diagnosis. But, reading all the things posted in this thread, there are many good outcomes for people with lung CA. I will keep my fingers crossed that your MIL will be among them, along with LTS!</p>

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<p>anxiousmom, It sounds as if the cancer was found early, since it was picked up during routine studies. This implies that it is at an early stage, and the outcome might be better than if it had not been found until it was causing symptoms. Iā€™m sending good wishes your way.</p>

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<p>Anxiousmom I am so very sorry to hear this, however, as NYMom says it does sound as if it has been caught early, and therefore hopefully it will be operable - if so, this has a chance of an excellent outcome and perhaps even a cure, depending on what kind of cancer it is. But regardless I am sure that in no way minimizes the trauma for your mother in law and your family. The hardest part I think is working through and getting past the the pure shock, the absolute unthinkable reality of it. </p>

<p>When you have more information as to what kind of cancer, if you want to let me know, I may have resources or information here that we have gathered along the way in the process of collecting information on small cell. One thing is certain - lung cancer is no longer an automatic death sentence, and people are living longer and longer post-diagnosis.</p>

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<p><a href=ā€œhttp://www.guelphtribune.ca/news/article/114260[/url]ā€>http://www.guelphtribune.ca/news/article/114260&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>anxiousmom,
I am so sorry to hear about your MILā€™s diagnosis. I know youā€™ll be a terrific source of strength (and knowledge) to her as she prepares for treatment. Will keep her and your family in my thoughts and prayers.</p>

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<p>Thanks for all your support, guys. And thank you, Latetoschool, for sharing all your knowledge with usā€¦ (Unfortunately, Mother-in-law has been told that cancer is not operable, so it doesnā€™t look like it was caught too early, and I believe it is on both sides of the lungs, not just one.) Still - where there is life, there is hope, and there is a lot of positive energy that radiates from my mother-in-law. :)</p>

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<p>anxiousmom, I am so sorry to hear about your MIL. She and your family will be in my prayers.</p>

<p>LTS, I hope you are doing okay and so with your daughter. I do not post often but you are always in my prayers.</p>

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<p>An unusual book by an unusual thinker and writer, who happens to be a Buddhist nun. </p>

<p>At the risk of being reductive, her basic ā€œmessageā€ is not that things will get better; it is that life exists, and can be experienced fully and truly, only in one place: right here, right now - wherever, and whatever, that be. </p>

<p>As she puts it in this book: ā€œIf weā€™re willing to give up hope that insecurity and pain can be exterminated, then we can have the courage to relax with the groundlessness of our situation.ā€</p>

<p><a href=ā€œhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1570623449/qid=1107994570/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1[/url]ā€>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1570623449/qid=1107994570/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=ā€œhttp://www.shambhala.org/teachers/pema/index.php[/url]ā€>http://www.shambhala.org/teachers/pema/index.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Anxiousmom, I am sorry that your MILā€™s cancer is not operable, however, there are many, many long term survivors who have been able to achieve and hold remission or stable disease for years, with radiation and chemotherapy, and sometimes just with chemotherapy.</p>

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<p>epistrophy</p>

<p>Thanks for the book suggestion. Iā€™m thinking it might be helpful for a dear friend who is struggling with bipolar disorder.</p>

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<p>LTS,
Just wanted to say that I hope you are having a good, productive day! Good thoughts continue for you.</p>

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<p>LTS,
Youā€™ve probably already seen this, but in case you havenā€™t hereā€™s a link to Rutgers article about lung cancer support and advocacy, including a two year SCLC survivor.</p>

<p><a href=ā€œhttp://media.www.dailytargum.com/media/storage/paper168/news/2007/11/15/PageOne/Cancer.Survivor.Keeps.Breathing-3101948.shtml[/url]ā€>http://media.www.dailytargum.com/media/storage/paper168/news/2007/11/15/PageOne/Cancer.Survivor.Keeps.Breathing-3101948.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>My deepest sympathies best wishes to you and all of those who have posted thir health concerns on this thread.</p>

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