Sharing the trial and error learned lessons of a MS spouse caregiver / carer about family, home care, and transition to the care facility era from 23 years of living with Multiple Sclerosis as a family ... a ‘warts and all’ picture of living with MS.
“1 in 14
Americans will be diagnosed with lung cancer this year that is 12 of the
average Facebook user's 172 friends. Of which only 2 will survive more than 5
years.”
I am one
of those 1 in 14 Americans.
Will I
be one of the few to survive more than 5 years?
“Many
people believe that if you have lung cancer you did something to deserve it...”
The Lung
Cancer Alliance recently launched a bold awareness campaign ... NO ONE DESERVES TO DIE
Lung
cancer is the number one cancer killer in America … this one reoccurring fact
kept leaping out of the screen as I researched myths and facts about lung
cancer.
Yet despite
claiming more lives than any other cancer, lung cancer receives comparatively
little research funding or even attention.
Lung
cancer kills more women each year than breast, ovarian, and uterine cancers combined.
But unless you live under a rock how can you miss the shelves of pink product
packaging during breast cancer awareness month.
Is it
the stigma of smoking? … anyone even non-smokers can develop lung cancer. Lung
cancer in ‘never-smokers’ is now considered the 6th most common cause of cancer
deaths in the United States.
Firefighters
and emergency responders are at increased risk of lung cancer.
Sitting in traffic puts you at risk. World Health Organization reports that "diesel exhaust IS a cause of lung cancer" and gasoline exhaust is "probably carcinogenic to humans."
Is it an
age thing? … lung cancer can strike people of any age including children.
So why
is lung cancer overlooked and underfunded? … too much whistling past the
graveyard and too little research … or are
too many advocates simply silenced by the low survival rate?
Our
family is one of almost a quarter of a million families that will receive a
lung cancer diagnosis this year.
160,000
Americans will die this year of lung cancer.
It’s time “to drag lung cancer out of the shadows and focus public attention on this cruel and unrelenting killer”Leaders of the Lung Cancer Free World
