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JaneC Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 Cat, VERY well said! Jane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowflake Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 Cat, Becky is now 35 and her son is 12, not 7. She was 34 on diagnosis and her son was weeks shy of his 11th birthday. You listed three of us (Lisa, Heather, Becky) and referred to "both"... I think the website is now simply lchelp.com, no "www." Other than that, fine. Becky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hebbie Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 I just sent something to Ophrah through her website. I told my "story", told some of the facts about LC, mentioned that I was 33 at diagnoses, non-smoker, had a small child.......also mentioned the very little funding/activism......mentioned my benefit walk and the walk in Chicago (Since they tape in Chicago, I thought that might catch their attention). Every baby step counts....eventually we will make it up the mountain! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cathy Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 Good Luck and God Bless you all.. Will be praying that your voices are heard.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa O Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 Sorry Cat, I did smoke a day in my life - in college... not enough to constitute a "significant smoking history" (ie. nonsmoking room mate nonsmoking classrooms, nonsmoking dormhalls...) but I can't claim that I never smoked "a day in my life". Although my BAC is not related to my smoking history, I am still uncomfortable with the assumption that tobacco related cancers are somehow less entitled to research money and cure. Therefore, you should probably use Heather and Becky for that story line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowflake Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 Heather would probably be the better bet - she came from a non-smoking family, I didn't. I've also worked in "hazardous" environments - an oil refinery and a chemical plant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elaine Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 Hebbie had thyroid treatment. Maybe we can find someone raised in a bubble that has lc. elaine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hebbie Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 OK -- the bubble comment made me laugh out loud. I know that this is a serious issue, but isn't this ridiculous??? It really has gotten to the point that in order to get over the stigma and "blame game" that we truly would have to find someone raised in a bubble, diagnosed w/ LC before the general public would feel sorry and rally for the cause. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowflake Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 My oncologist told me that my cancer is not smoking related. The only cigarette smoke I've been "privy" to is secondhand...there's yet another issue, non-smokers that go to venues with heavy smoke like concerts and watering holes and (for crying out loud) demolition derbies... ...and there's the "radon" issue... ...and MY question (since I know PERSONALLY that not just smokers get lung cancer) is how many of the smokers/prior smokers on the board have lung cancer that has not a flippin' thing to do with the fact that they smoked? OBVIOUSLY, had I smoked or NOT smoked, I'd be here - so how many of those that smoke and are beating themselves up would be here if they had never lit up? Hmmmm....methinks some of ya'll would still be here, just not kicking yourself so hard... ANYHOW, for those of you that answer "yes" to the smoking question, you never have heard the SECOND question "Did someone in your house smoke?" See, if I didn't cause myself to have this disease, it is obviously the fault of someone close to me...and that would be the answer that would have people closing their minds to lung cancer since mine was "caused by someone else's smoking" - whether that is the truth or not... Ya know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Rachel Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 I like Becky's approach. I was a smoker. I also grew up in a house where my parents smoked (No one knew back then), I worked in smoked filled restauants & watering holes until I was 22, I worked on tugboats for 3 years smelling diesel fumes. Soooo, What actually caused my cancer?? It must have been the self-inflicted smoking as most people assume. Even before I had cancer I thought it odd that you hardly saw adds for lung cancer. Plenty for breast cancer though. I am not putting that fact down but it is time for us to have our chance in the spotlight. Enough for now, I'll get to wound up. LOL. Just saw a different post where I said about the same thing. I did warn you all about my short term memory loss. I thought this sounded familiar when I wrote it!!! Rachel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hebbie Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 Wasn't there just a study posted somewhere that talked about LC Genes? That if you had this particular "gene", you would be more prone to getting lung cancer than others -- and non-smokers with this gene would be more likely to get it from merely being around second hand smoke? And it also explained why some smokers could be 3 pack a dayers for 50 years and be fine while someone else could be a social smoker and get slammed. Smoking apparently doesn't CAUSE the cancer....it just acts as a catylist to trigger the gene? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hebbie Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 WHY ARE YOU STILL ON THE COMPUTER????????? CAN YOU SAY E-V-A-C-U-A-T-E ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lisa O Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 sorry, this was meant as a p.m. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaneC Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 Cat, What happened to your original post in this thread? It looks totally different now than it did when I first responded. Why the change? I thought your original post was very well stated. Jane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elaine Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 Cat, just now noticed you changed the original post. I just want you to know one thing: The fact that I disagreed with focusing on non-smoking women does not mean I don't support you: I do! Lots of people do. Activism is tough work, you know that. It usually means support of something controversial. I guess I want you to know one other thing: I care about you a ton! elaine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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