Lahalsa

Thanks Tom - diagnosed "officially" last week; staffing of my case and staging to occur during the lung cancer team's meeting this Friday morning 10/28/22.  I was excited today because I didn't have a test or procedure scheduled and did not have to wear sweats/t-shirt/no metal, take off all my jewelry, not eat/drink, etc.
It's all so overwhelming and is happening so fast.  Hope to start chemo next week, and aside from my husband, I haven't told anyone about this yet (was waiting for ALL the information so I could share it in one conversation with each person [son, mother, brothers, girlfriends, etc.] and not have to deal with 15 phone calls/texts a day asking if I found out something else, what the test results showed, when my next test was, etc.). 
I appreciate the info you shared above - very helpful - especially the part about living the life that you have.  I ride an 850 pound Harley Davidson motorcycle (by myself, in other words, my husband has his bike and I have mine), and this past weekend, we rode bikes all weekend like we always do...rode to another state and back on Sunday.  For this reason, I just cannot believe that I am not going to be around in a few months like the stats say for SCLC with malignant pleural effusion. I refuse to believe it - I am going to fight - and whatever happens, I'm going to take your advice and "do something" with every day I get.  Thank you!

Thanks Tom - diagnosed "officially" last week; staffing of my case and staging to occur during the lung cancer team's meeting this Friday morning 10/28/22.  I was excited today because I didn't have a test or procedure scheduled and did not have to wear sweats/t-shirt/no metal, take off all my jewelry, not eat/drink, etc.
It's all so overwhelming and is happening so fast.  Hope to start chemo next week, and aside from my husband, I haven't told anyone about this yet (was waiting for ALL the information so I could share it in one conversation with each person [son, mother, brothers, girlfriends, etc.] and not have to deal with 15 phone calls/texts a day asking if I found out something else, what the test results showed, when my next test was, etc.). 
I appreciate the info you shared above - very helpful - especially the part about living the life that you have.  I ride an 850 pound Harley Davidson motorcycle (by myself, in other words, my husband has his bike and I have mine), and this past weekend, we rode bikes all weekend like we always do...rode to another state and back on Sunday.  For this reason, I just cannot believe that I am not going to be around in a few months like the stats say for SCLC with malignant pleural effusion. I refuse to believe it - I am going to fight - and whatever happens, I'm going to take your advice and "do something" with every day I get.  Thank you!

Thanks for sharing your wisdom born of experience I am so grateful I found this forum.
I spoke to a Lung Cancer nurse yesterday from the Australian Lung foundation, and she asked where I had found my information I told her it from from this forum and told her it was a shame that we had nothing like this in Oz, her name is Nicole and she said she was going to look the forum up and join if she could so she can see how it works and perhaps replicate it here, I really hope she can do that.
 

Marilyn,
There is no need to replicate or license LUNGevity in Australia. We are an international non profit and Australians are free to use this forum or the LUNGevity.org website. We have many international members and participants.
Stay the course.
Tom

Thank you so much.  As a newly diagnosed patient, this was incredibly helpful. 
 

Tom thank you so much for your insightful into surviving Lung Cancer. I love the helpful tips to mange treatment and live life. ❤️Thank you. 

Great Info Tom !  Thanks for posting, I'm going to Bookmark this for future use and to share with other Newbies!   This is the type of information I WISH I had known back and the time of my diagnosis.  

Tom,
This is so good.  Simple, crisp advice.  Thanks for taking the time to share.
Lou

Thanks Tom!  This is so helpful.

Tom,  thanks for all of the information.  I am sure I will refer to it time and time again as I go through this journey.  You give me such inspiration, hope, how to survive and live.  Enjoy your cruise!!

Tom, I read this originally after my initial post on the newbie topic back in January this year.  I found your reply to my post highly encouraging and all your articles quite "sanguine" as you put it 😊  7 months (and a lot of treatments) later, I'm reading it again and it's still good, if not better.  Thank you. 

Because I know he has limited tolerance for reading up on stuff, this is the one and only thing I've sent my dear hubby to read thus far. Thank you for being a beacon of hope to me and so many others, Tom.

Thanks Tom for all your inputs. You are so inspirational. I am reading all your notes. Thanks a lot. It means a lot to us.