Hello... I guess its about time to stop lurking and finally let it be known that I am here, being a lurker makes me feel like a peepiing tom. javascript:emoticon(':oops:') Anyways the reason I am here, is because I found out the week before Easter, that my step-dad - whom I have known and has been in my life since I was 7 (I am 31 now), anyhow, he was dx with stage IV adenocarcinoma of the lung with mets to the brain and bones. He has already had radiation to his head - his last blast was 4/26. My mom tells me that he is irratabke and has already lost all his hair. He has been retired for a few years, and then they moved to GA for my mom's career. So I live in VA and they live in GA. He is going to start a trial drug to see if that will extend the prognosis or possibly go into remission.. He is going to start on a drug named "CT-2103, Carboplatin for the First Line Treatment of Patients with Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer". It most likely will be mixed with Taxol. I just hope and pray that something good will come out of this for him. He has a GREAT attitude about this whole thing, so I believe that when it is his time, it will be a smooth ride. My mom, on the other hand is having serious problems accepting this. Just when they atarted making plans for after her retirement, and likely he wont be here. I am very worried about her. I am an only child. I have two girls, Jillian, age 2 in June and Alyson age 7 this coming August, and of course they mean the WORLD to them. I feel like I need to be there, but my mom is telling me not to come, that its too overwhelming right now.. So I am heeding her wishes while his children and friends are showing up almost every weekend. I really think of him as much as a father as my own father. My heart aches every day for both of them, becuase of the long battle ahead. Anyways, that is my story. I am so glad I have found all of you, it gives me a new hope that maybe, just maybe he will stabalize or go into remisson and have another couple of years.. Without any treatment, the doctors estimated / made a guess that he had between 2 and 5 months left...And all of this started becuase of a headache! I hate this disease.
Ang
