Living

To put it quite frankly, I feel as though I am roaming through life recently aimlessly. Don’t get me wrong - I am so very grateful for every single day...

I recently spoke on the phone to a good friend of mine who was about to have surgery. She told me that she is doing a lot of “nesting” in...

In the past, I usually didn’t celebrate my birthday. It was just another day. However, I took my birthday more seriously after being diagnosed with lung cancer. I not only...

Cancer-related fatigue can be from treatment, but it can also be from lung cancer itself. I have found that fatigue is one of the most common side effects of lung...

It’s not easy to not think and stress about your current situation, but there is something in how you mark your territory when it comes to handling how you want...

Sometimes the cancer patient becomes the caregiver. Whether for a spouse or a family member, it can be overwhelming. This was the case for me when my mother fell and...

In my past, I worked for a big box retail electronics store, and they were famous for having everything abbreviated and we were often quizzed on it too! I have...

From the day of diagnosis, I have been dealing with my own lung cancer changes. I cannot ignore that I am also grappling with my own finitude as well as...

I was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2014. I did not have a lot of experience with lung cancer or even cancer in general. I had always heard of the...

Over the course of the past year, most of us have been forced to only communicate by some sort of electronic device. We had birthday celebrations over Facetime while drop...

Ever since I was diagnosed so unexpectedly with lung cancer, I’ve found that not much shocks me or truly surprises me anymore. I think once I heard the words “you...

What has prolonged my life after having advanced stage 4 non-small cell ALK-positive lung cancer? Do I only owe it to my cancer doctors? How about research? Much more to...

As I was moderating the comments on the Facebook page for LungCancer.net I found a topic that comes up a lot. People ask questions about care, treatment, and simply “what...

When I was first diagnosed, I kept hearing buzz words like “chemo brain” and brain fog, but I didn’t really think anything about it until I experienced it. My husband...

When receiving the news of lung cancer; it is imperative to move swiftly. My mother spent weeks in the hospital with what was assumed to be pneumonia, only to find...

I have mentioned many times that my diagnosis was devastating news to me and I know that is a common feeling in others who have been diagnosed. (We see this...

One of my fellow contributors wrote an article several months back about the launching of the White Ribbon Project by Heidi and Pierre Onda to foster increased lung cancer awareness...

I’m an advanced lung cancer survivor for six years. For the first three years, I struggled with lung cancer, physical side effects, and mental effects. I wrote several articles about...

As lung cancer survivors it is important for us to exercise. I recently wrote an article for lungcancer.net on different ways to exercise at home and one of the topics...