Hello there, my mother recommended this site to me, I guess as a support. So I will try it. My dad was diagnosed with sclc a few days ago. It is in his lung and in the adrenal glands and also they say in the lymph chain in the lung. He only had symptoms a few weeks ago where his face and neck sweld up, by the time he was daignosed it was horrible. I guess what happened is that the tumor is so big, it was putting pressure on the vena cava, and it was stopping the bolld and oxygen flow to the head, neck, then arms, under arms, chest etc.. This all happened while he was out of town on work. So I got him home here and took him to the ER and now we have started chemo, he had 2 radiation treatments, which that and the steroids dramaticlly got the swelling down to where he looked more normal and can breath better now. THANK GOD!!!
He is handling it all so remarkably, it is so hard when there are so many teams of dr.'s. The Internal medicine group spent an hour with me yesterday explaining to me how important it was that I CONVINCE my dad that he isn't going to live very long, because they said they spent almost two hours trying to and I guess he just kept telling them the chemo was his chance to survive. To be honest he has convinced even me that maybe he has a good chance..
He is amazing me, I have never seen someone be so brave, as he just took a deep breathe while the first flow of chemo went through his veins, as I left I told him he was strong and he was going to kick butt, and he told me he didn't need the pep talk, he knew what he had to do..
so I am living this day by day, yesterday i thought i couldn't possibly take one more day because he is having these seizures from the lack of oxygen, they happen when he coughs and it is unbarable for me to watch. Then there are days like today, and you make it through because you simply have too...
So I guess I am just rambling now, but I am sure that I will find information and comfort through this forum, I hope that I can also provide some as well, as we all go through this together..
I am hoping to find as much from you all as I can so that I can help my dad as much as possible.. So please I am open to any comments..
Thank you very much, Heather
PS what is this info that you all have at the bottom of your forums, and how do you put it there....