Living

Have you ever heard about Chemo Angels or Angel Mail? Chemo Angels are a wonderful group of people who simply want to be Angels in the lives of cancer patients or caregivers. They...

Way too many of us find that we can no longer continue to work at an 8-5 job after we are diagnosed with cancer. Besides the challenges of having to...

A friend of mine who teaches yoga asked me about how my lung cancer affects my breathing. That is an interesting question with a variety of answers, which I will...

I have certainly learned a few things through the process of dealing with my latest, nagging side-effect. This persistent rash, covering me quite literally from head to toe, could have...

Lately, I have been getting really tired of cleaning up after myself. Literally, cleaning myself after myself, if that makes any sense. I am constantly shedding so many dead skin...

I attended a workshop taught by Shera Dubitsky, formerly a senior advisor to Sharsheret, a national not-for-profit organization supporting young Jewish women and their families facing breast cancer. She called...

Have you ever met that person who enters a room and is instantly likable? Someone who has a positive comment to make about everything she sees? Think of the type...

This is Part II of the article series, Meet Nicole, taken from a March 2018 interview with Nicole McNair of Greensboro, NC. Dusty:How did they tell you that you had...

For all my complaining about living in Los Angeles, I have to acknowledge how fortunate I am to be here. As with many things in life, since being diagnosed with...

I attended a LUNGevity Lunch and Learn meeting yesterday. During the Survivor Stories session, a man I will call Jack began telling his story. He was diagnosed with advanced small...

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.  --Charlie Chaplin I recently listened to a Webinar put on by the Texas Oncology Foundation that was called Survivorship: Your...

On a recent visit to my oncologist, we got to talking about some of the issues I was currently dealing with. The treatment I had been on was particularly low...

A good friend of mine asked me a little while ago if I think about the fact that I have lung cancer every day. I had to stop for a...

I went to lunch with some friends who haven't seen me in several years. In fact, I probably haven't seen some of them in four or even five years. We...

Fighting lung cancer is nearly a full-time job. The time is long since past that we as patients should sit back and just turn over our health to our doctors...

February 20th of 2014 and the worst day of my life. It was the day I heard the words directed to me, "I am sorry but you have lung cancer." Anyone reading...

I am often asked what are the stages of lung cancer and how does your medical team come to the conclusion of your staging. There are MANY tests to help determine...

I have two dogs. One white. One black. One female. One male. As different from one another as night and day. But, I consider them both lifesavers. When I was...

In early June, I attended the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) as a Patient Advocate. Held every year in Chicago, ASCO draws close to 40,000...

I recently saw a question raised by a lung cancer survivor who was experiencing difficulty breathing after radiation treatments. She wanted to know what tips we had that could help...