As a son of a father who died of lung cancer, I can say that it rocks an entire extended family. To see the end or reduction of the disease of cancer will take away a lot of pain not only from the victim but, as well, the family members who remain after the loss.

Because our father was 75 years old when he developed the disease, we, as the children, had some major concerns for our Mother who would be left alone. They always did everything together and my Mother was also at the beginning stages of another horrible disease, that being Alzheimers. How would she deal with this?

I watched him go through 6 years of a life decline until he died. He was able to put the cancer into remission but much damage was done to his lungs through radiation. To complicate things he also had some emphazima in his lungs.

My Dad was a fighter. From the time that he got cancer he continued to spend his winters in the South where he enjoyed Sun and games with the friends that he made down there.

Finally, his lungs became too tired to fight the damage done, made sure that our Mother was safely in a comfortable Seniors Home where he spent a couple of weeks with her and had an ambulance take him to the hospital where he gave in and allowed his heart to stop.

A very tough last six years to his life as well as our Mom’s life.