Don't Smoke for your loved ones sakes

[ocelot]

Just spent Christmas Weekend at the bedside of my brother-in-law who is stage 4 lung cancer. When my wife and I arrived along with another of my wife's sisters at the hospital in Louisiana Bill was on oxygen but coherent. During the Xmas Eve night...though he did not slip into a coma...he has been incoherent ever since. The next night he was moved to ICU. I left my wife there to be with her sister for the week and came on back with the other sister. In a half hour (9:00 am cst) the family will meet with the oncologist. I am afraid the news will not be hopeful. Bill has always been his wife's whole world and she will be devastated. She clings to every straw of hope. His elderly parents are watching him die. He is only 57 years old. Worked hard his whole life to provide a good life for his wife, son and daughter. My wife and I will try to get her to move in with us though don't know if she will.

I have a brother who smokes. I don't want to have to watch him dying before his time.

Peace to all.

 

[Chanman]

Sorry to hear this Ocelot. Best to you and yours.

 

[ocelot]

Thanks chan.

 

[Mjolnir]

Ocelot,
so sorry to hear of your familys pain. it always makes you think, and then to have these things happen around the holidays, is even tougher. i knew someone who passed away this last year of lung cancer and he was 42.
god bless you & yours.

 

[pirate fan]

Ocelot, please know I will keep you and your family in my prayers. Times like this a very difficult in so many ways. Know that you and your family are not alone.

 

[ocelot]

Thanks everyone. I'm waiting to hear from my wife the results of the oncologist meeting. I fear it is not good else I would have heard from her by now. Left a message on her cell but she can't use it in the hospital. Expect I'll hear from her when her sister is not near and she can step outside.

 

[dr. freeze]

Take care man. Sorry to hear the news.

Cancer is a horrible disease to suffer through and just as hard on those closest to the loved one.

It truly humbles us all to see the fragility of life.

 

[trolln4walii]

Ocelot

My prayers are with you and your family.

 

[IntenseOperator]

Sad news.

Watched my Grandfather die of emphzema (spelling?).

Horrible.

Also there were my Aunt and Uncle who I was very fond of. Both chain smokers even after the fact. My Aunt stopped many years later because of other medical reasons.

I'll never get it. :sadwave:

 

[Chopsticks]

Sorry to hear...tomorrow for me will be 4 months that I have quit smoking. I've got twins a boy and a girl and I would like to see them grow up. Don't get me wrong, I'm one of those people who love to smoke. Just thought that would be selfish of me to put my family through it if and when I would get lung cancer from smoking. God bless and my thoughts go out to those of you who tried, trying, and/or have quit that terrible habit...

 

[countinguy]

Hang tight buddy, it is a horrible way to die. Had 2 friends of mine die from lung cancer, very slow and painful death for the person that had it, and all their friends. The sad part is my last friend Lee ann she was going through kemo for 2 yrs and was actually builiding back up her blood cells and just when u think everything is all good, bamm she took a relapse for the 3 months.. it was the most horrible thing I ever seen to happen to a person, completely just shrunk down to nothing, and to weak to even move.. she was ready to die when she went, she told me,.. too this day I still think of her, that was an awful hard time for me.. she past in 1997... i personally smoked for 15 yrs and quit cold turked throw the lighter and the cigs straight out the truck window and haven't touched it since, dec 13, 1999, u remember shit like that...

my prayers are with u...

 

[Agent 0659]

Hang tight buddy, it is a horrible way to die. Had 2 friends of mine die from lung cancer, very slow and painful death for the person that had it, and all their friends. The sad part is my last friend Lee ann she was going through kemo for 2 yrs and was actually builiding back up her blood cells and just when u think everything is all good, bamm she took a relapse for the 3 months.. it was the most horrible thing I ever seen to happen to a person, completely just shrunk down to nothing, and to weak to even move.. she was ready to die when she went, she told me,.. too this day I still think of her, that was an awful hard time for me.. she past in 1997... i personally smoked for 15 yrs and quit cold turked throw the lighter and the cigs straight out the truck window and haven't touched it since, dec 13, 1999, u remember shit like that...

my prayers are with u...

Wow Countin I didnt know that. You know I smoke...time to quit :sadwave:

 

[bombercoops]

Hope the news comes back positive for you Ocelot! I know how much something like this can affect the primary family and the families close to them, such as yourselves. My best wishes to you and everyone close to him.

 

[ocelot]

Thanks again everyone! Talked to the wife. The pulmonary specialist says the mass is localized and hard which is good for cutting it out BUT he has to get stronger and wife says he looks worse today to her. His pituitary has stopped functioning because of damage done to it by a mass in the head that they were able to shrink in earlier treatment. He is now getting hormones pumped into him to compensate and is still incoherent and uncommunicative. If this post leads just 1 person to quit smoking it will be a great thing. Do it for your family Agent and Chops stay with it. The longer you resist the easier it will get.

Take care.

 

[Agent 0659]

Ocelot, would like to thank you again for posting this. I quit smoking Jan, 1 2005 after my girlfriends Uncle died from lung cancer, then I came home and read this. I just couldnt stand the thought of leaving her alone someday because I was too selfish to quit smoking. I saw her Aunts pain, her Fathers pain, everyones. Watched my Grandfather die from emphyzema :cursin: He could barely walk 40 yards to the bleachers to watch me play little league, all because of cigarettes. He was my favorite person that has ever walked this earth. Anyone that smokes and reads this, I challenge you to give them up. Thanks Ocelot!!

 

[hedgehog]

I watched my grandpa die of emphysema last year it is really sad. My prayers to you and your family.