I Run Long
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 16, 2007
I just found out on Friday that my mom has lung cancer and she has never smoked a day in her life! I am so devastated. She of course feels like she's been hit by a truck. She had a persistent cough, went to a lung specialist to find out what was happening. They admitted her to hospital for tests and they just told her yesterday. They also gave her a bone scan and think they see something in her left hip. It's in her left lung too. She's 77 and they are saying she'll be undergoing radiation therapy. I'll be meeting her at the cancer clinic here in a couple of weeks and help her through it but I feel so helpless since all I do when I talk to her is cry. She can't eat because she is just so stressed. She's not been around second-hand smoke, hasn't ever worked in an environment where she may have been exposed to something that is potentially a cause of cancer. I know the prognosis for lung cancer is poor - I just don't know what to do. Thanks for listening