mikemur

Claudia has been gone 8 weeks now and I am just starting to think about what I'm going to do with the rest of my life. Lung Cancer sure changed our beautiful 43 marriage. Thanks to all of you for all the kind messages of support and your prayers. Claudia is in a better place now but won't be in my arms any more and that is something I'll just have to learn to live with. She deserved better. I sure wish I had of read somewhere about the possibility of a person passing within one month of diagnosis but I never did and so I post a warning to anyone who is told they have SCLC - get your house in order as anything can happen. I think in Claudia's case she had SCLC a long time ( two months) before she was diagnosed and it was so advanced that Chemo didn't work the first time around and it kept growing and that's what ended her sweet life. Who knows? Just know that someimes we don't have even 6 months to say goodby. Good Luck to all.

Claudia has been gone 8 weeks now and I am just starting to think about what I'm going to do with the rest of my life. Lung Cancer sure changed our beautiful 43 marriage. Thanks to all of you for all the kind messages of support and your prayers. Claudia is in a better place now but won't be in my arms any more and that is something I'll just have to learn to live with. She deserved better. I sure wish I had of read somewhere about the possibility of a person passing within one month of diagnosis but I never did and so I post a warning to anyone who is told they have SCLC - get your house in order as anything can happen. I think in Claudia's case she had SCLC a long time ( two months) before she was diagnosed and it was so advanced that Chemo didn't work the first time around and it kept growing and that's what ended her sweet life. Who knows? Just know that someimes we don't have even 6 months to say goodby. Good Luck to all.

I still can't see how you navigate this board but I'll just reply to myself and it will be posted somewhere. Most message boards are a lot simpler to use. My dear wife Claudia died July 26th and I buried her yesterday. Neither of us had read and heard anything about dying within a month of SCLC. Her oncologist said that maybe her tumor grew into an Artery and made it burst and that's what happened. She went quickly and instantly and that was good. She is in God's arms now and that's all that matters in the end. She was a deeply religious woman who was very active in a Catholic community 30 miles from where we lived called Holy Family Church in St. Louis Park. The medical community let her down completely and I will be back with more later on that subject. They did nothing for her from start to finish and she had the best in the Twin Cities - Park Nicollet.

i don't get where I go to post the long list of things everyone has posted that happened to them.

My wife Claudia has completed her first chemo and how has two weeks off before starting her second chemo treatment. Carbo Platinum and ept 16 are the two chemos being used and then Neulasta is given. Her White count was 1.7 last week. She has just had two really bad days lately on Chemo. I am wondering when this first round is over after 4 treatments, how long will the typical remission last and how good will she feel while in remission. Is short distance travel possible at that time?

My wife of 43 years was just diagnosed with sc lung cancer. She has a large tumor in her lung and lymph nodes in her chest has SC also as does her pelvic bone.