[Patti B]

What a grand lady Patti was and her strength & faith are an inspriation for all. My condolences to you & your Dad.

[One more tragic event]

Judy,

I am so sorry to hear this. My condolences to you, your sister & whole family. This is so heartbreaking and I will be sending prayers for all.

[Okey dokey]

Judy,

Sorry about your news. Sending prayers.

[It was a good 4 1/2 year run...]

Janet,

Sorry to hear your news, but glad they can do the gamma knife. Prayers coming your way:)

[Asking for prayers...]

Prayers for you & your famiy.

[Lost My Dear Husband]

Katy,

My condeolences & prayers are with you.

[Chemo finished - now living life]

Hope things go well for you:)

[Mom]

Susan,

I am so saddened by the passing of your Mom. My prayers are with you & your family.

[Chemo finished - now living life]

Hi Jussi,

Thanks for keeping us updated. I look like a pretzel with everything I can crossed that the virus does the trick and kills the cancer. Throwing in some prayers as well:)

All the best to you,

BarbVH

[Chemo finished - now living life]

Good Lucl Jussi. Praying for a good outcome for you.

[Chemo finished - now living life]

Congratulations Jussi! Hope you had cake and more:) If we all weren't a ocean apart we would be there with lots of cakes:)

[RECOVERY TIME]

Hi Mary,

Welcome. Stage 1 does give you a great chance for a cure. Find put what procedure they intend to use. Recovery from surgery will depend on whether you have a VATS procedure as Bruce did in the previous post or a thoracotomy. The recovery for VATS is much quicker than if you need a thoracotomy. I had the latter in May 07 to remove my right lower lobe. I was stage 1A. I was in the hospital for 6 days and off work for almost 6 or 7 weeks.

Good Luck,

[Scan Time Again]

Congratulations Bud!!! Great news:)

[Jill Costello June 24th 2010]

My condolences to Jill's family & friends. What an amazing young woman.

[Loss of My Wife]

Ronnie,

I am so sorry to hear about Pat's passing. My prayers are with you and your children.

[Scan Time]

Congratulations Jamie! Five year, how wonderful.

[My mom is gone]

So sorry to hear about your Mom's passing. My condolences & prayer are with you & your family.

[Update]

Judy,

Sorry to hear about your fall. Hope you can get some control over the pain soon. I'll be praying for you.

[Joel's Pet coming up/ UPDATE 6/17/2010]

Maryanne,

Congratulation on NED for Joel again. Now you can relax & enjoy:)

[One Year Since Diagnosis - Only X Ray Done This Time]

Congratulations Annette! Oh that stress. !t can be hard, but we need to do our best to manage it. Guided Imagery works for me:)

[3 Years]

Hi Everyone,

Exciting week for my family & many prayers have been answered!! My son, Todd, received great MRI results earlier this week. 4 1/2 years since his diagnosis, surgery, radiation and a year of chemo and he has been released from care at Henry Ford's Brain Tumor Center. AMAZNG!!!

Yesterday I got my CT scan results. Stable! No lung cancer and the darn inflammation (sarcoid) I have had for a few years now is finally now under control.... 3 years cancer free & no more prednisone.

And very exciting is that I have graduated to scans every 6 months instead of 3. YEAH!!

I am having some nasty prednisone withdrawal symptoms, but my labs are OK so my choices were to go back on the stuff so they go away which would make me feel better or to deal with them. I chose to deal.

Many thanks for all your support.

Love to you all,

[Crizotineb]

Thanks Everyone,

Ends up she knew about the presetation at the ASCO meeting and sent me Dr. West's post.

[Crizotineb]

Has anyone ever heard of Crizotineb? A friend wsith NSCLC may enter a phase II trial. I have never heard of it and nothing comes up when I google it.

Thanks,

BarbVH

[MOM'S PET SCAN RESULTS ARE IN:]

Sue,

Congratulations to Mom and your family. NED is such great news!!

[okay if I post here?]

Pat,

I am so sorry to hear you are having such a difficult time with your health. I hope they can figure out what is going on soon. ((Praying for you))