Historias compartidas
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Selina T. My dad was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in March of 2016. After eight months of chemo, radiation, hospital stays, surgeries and an awfully lot of pain and inability to eat, he passed away on November 12th of that same year.
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Seana Z. This is the face of lung cancer. I walk because I am proof that it can happen to anyone and we need to unite and find a cure.
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Sean Keoni C. My mother was first diagnosed with Adenocarcinoma back in late 2013. Although she had been a smoker, she had quit about five years prior to her diagnosis.
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Scarlett P. When I think about how lung disease has impacted my life, the sad reality of my answer is that it has impacted me greatly both personally and professionally, and has been a part of my life for longer than I care to remember. As a college student dati
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Sarah P. A spot showed up on a CT scan on a fatty cist on my shoulder. My docotor ordered a CT of my left lung. It showed crushed glass. We waited three months and I had another CT scan. It remained the same. We waited another three months and there was a cha
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Sarah P. In July 2017, we found out that my mom had lung cancer. She has NEVER smoked and by the time we found out, it was already at stage 4.
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Sarah N. When you hear the word cancer it tends to make time stand still; for my family time stopped in 2013.
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Sarah M. On a full moon night, walking on a beach in Puerto Morelos, Scott asked me to marry him. And just ten days later, when we had returned home to Montana from traveling in Mexico and then the UK to visit Scott's family, Scott was diagnosed with terminal
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Sarah F. I lost my mother a week ago, which was exactly one week before Mother's Day. Yesterday I woke up on Mother's Day and all I could think of was, "How many hours until bedtime?" I went through the motions of the day with my own children, and figured it
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Sarah A. As a Respiratory Therapist I spent many years promoting lung health, participating in the lung force walks, climb for air events, and raising money for the American Lung Association. I knew the statistics and what the reality was for so many patients
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Sara J. July 22, 2016; the day my mom was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer and our lives were turned upside down. We were shocked. Speechless. Scared. Sad.
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Sara G. In 2019 I was 39, and looking forward to my 40th birthday. I wanted it to be a healthy milestone, so I joined a kickboxing bootcamp. By the end, I felt amazing but thought I had pulled a muscle in my chest.
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Sara G. My mother, Raelene, was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in April 2010. Before her diagnosis, experience shortness of breath and persistent bronchitis. She went through many rounds of antibiotics and they weren't working.
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Sandy W. In January of 2014, I had a cough that would not go away. My doctor gave me antibiotics. They did not work. Went back to the doctor, more antibiotics, and they didn’t work.
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Sandy S. Iʼm Sandy Spears, a life long resident of Georgia. In May 2019 I will celebrated my 40th wedding Anniversary. That is something I did not think I would see after a lung cancer diagnosis.
