daggiesmom Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 Hope everyone got to watch. This is a great thing! Good legacy for Pete Jennings, and hopefully, will raise people's awareness of LC. E-mail to ABC congratulating them on their "good sense". Joanie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmm17 Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 I just sent an email thanking them for the coverage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryanne Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 I saw the show also. Very good...I am so glad they brought up about Nov. being LC awareness month. And they fact that we need early detection. What is the email address?? OOPS I found it and made a comment. http://abc.go.com/site/contactus.html?c ... %20Tonight Maryanne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hopeandstrength Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 I emailed them too! Cathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nushka Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 When was this on? Darn it, I wanted to watch. Did anyone tape it? If you did I will gladly pay postage and send you a new tape to replace the one you send me. Just PM me and let me know. Nina Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nushka Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 Just found the video on abcnews.com so I won't need a tape. Thanks anyway. Nina Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donna G Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 Thanks I just commented their too. Donna G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ann Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 I also sent an email applauding them for standing up and facing this issue head on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donna G Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 In December 1997 I recieved the crushing news that I had lung cancer! I had gone to the doctor thinking that the pain I had was due to moving back to Minnesota and the unpacking. I knew as an RN that pain was not an early sign of lung cancer. I cried all the way home. Thus my journey began. My story is posted at lchelp.org a web site set up to support those diagnosed with lung cancer and their families. I am Donna G at the site. When I was a young teenager I thought smoking made me look and feel "grown up". My Mother smoked cigarettes and Dad smoked a pipe. When I entered nursing school after graduating from High School we were not allowed to smoke in uniform. The patients smoked at their bedsides and the doctors smoked at the nurses station. I married a Navy man tall and handsome. The military gave them free smokes at times, sold discounted smokes on base and at "sea" sold sea stores for $1 a carton! In a few years I began to understand people really did get sick and cough etc who smoked. My mother was developing a bad cough. I wanted to quit and I really tried and tried. I could kick them for a few months and my husband would come home and say "We are being moved to San Diego" and the stress of another move would make me take that "just one" and I was hooked again. I began working in an intensive care unit and really did not want to smell like a cigarette while I was teaching my patient who just had a heart attack the reasons he should quit smoking. For years I was able to shower , go the whole day without, then after a stress filled day just really "need" just one on the way home. Being told I had lung cancer finally was enough to get me over the hump. I have never smoked again. It is nearly 8 years. I must say with the help of Wellbutrin and a smokers annonymous support group. I was just reading the book by James Frey, In a Million Pieces. He decribed how he would dream he was using his drugs of addiction and the dream was so real. He said this is commom for addicts. I thought how correct you are! I often dreamt that I had a cigarette and was enjoying it. My mother finally died of COPD. The last years she was in a nursing home and could not smoke their. She told me also how she dreamt of smoking and even til death she said how she just loved to smoke! I pray that we quit depending on Cigarette "sin" taxes to balance our state and federal budgets, that people really learn early in life how to cope without needing -- This is what I posted on their Quit Message Board. They made me stop. (LIMITED how long) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindseysmom Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 I saw the report last night also. I thought it was great. This is going to be a series, running throughout November on World News Tonight with Dean Reynolds. I hope everyone will continue to watch. Best Wishes, Dee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandyW Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 Great way to vent but don't know if it will work. Was nice to blow off steam at somebody for something. If DISNEY the family series is doing what it sounds like; think about the series they are running and who they are blaming. Know what I mean?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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