Posted: 7/9/2014 6:00:00 PM EDT
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Well, I've been drinking. I don't normally, but it keeps me from crying. Quoted:
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I'm sorry. How can you make a thread about this? Be the last thing on my mind Well, I've been drinking. I don't normally, but it keeps me from crying. Nothing wrong with crying. Or crying and drinking. Serious post. |
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I am sorry for your loss OP 
What you drinkin? Tonight I hit the tequila. I haven't gotten down like that since New Year's or so, so I had to get some Patron. I'm chasing it with a drink I call the Red Robin. Half Sam Adams Cherry Wheat and half Guinness(like a black and tan). |
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Sorry to hear that OP.
I, too, had an uncle that I lost to lung cancer. We weren't super close, but when my dad retired from the Army and moved us to MO, my uncle took me to pool halls on his motorcycle and got me started on the right path.  Unfortunately, I was in a different country when he passed, so I couldn't hit the funeral. Many positive thoughts going your way man.
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He was 57. He had a clean chest x-ray in Nov of 03. Stage IV lung cancer happens fast. Quoted:
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Sorry to hear that. How old was he? He was 57. He had a clean chest x-ray in Nov of 03. Stage IV lung cancer happens fast. That got my mom, too.
Sorry for your loss but there is a bright side. You did the last, best thing you could have possibly done by staying with him. IMO it's one of the most important things you can do in life. Here was a man who passed away surrounded by loving family. Is that not the best possibly way to go? I was a pall bearer for my Grandmother and I still take pride in the fact that I helped lay her to rest. |
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Any last words? What was the look on his face? Was he a spiritual man? No disrespect - this stuff really fascinates me. He seemed like he was trying to talk after they pulled the machine that was helping him breathe. He was in a coma though, so he looked like he was dreaming. He wasn't very spiritual, but I did pray for him. |
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That got my mom, too.
Sorry for your loss but there is a bright side. You did the last, best thing you could have possibly done by staying with him. IMO it's one of the most important things you can do in life. Here was a man who passed away surrounded by loving family. Is that not the best possibly way to go? I was a pall bearer for my Grandmother and I still take pride in the fact that I helped lay her to rest. Quoted:
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Sorry to hear that. How old was he? He was 57. He had a clean chest x-ray in Nov of 03. Stage IV lung cancer happens fast. That got my mom, too.
Sorry for your loss but there is a bright side. You did the last, best thing you could have possibly done by staying with him. IMO it's one of the most important things you can do in life. Here was a man who passed away surrounded by loving family. Is that not the best possibly way to go? I was a pall bearer for my Grandmother and I still take pride in the fact that I helped lay her to rest. It's hard to lose someone to this stuff. The speed that it happened was mind blowing. |
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Sorry to hear that. How old was he? He was 57. He had a clean chest x-ray in Nov of 03. Stage IV lung cancer happens fast. That got my mom, too.
Sorry for your loss but there is a bright side. You did the last, best thing you could have possibly done by staying with him. IMO it's one of the most important things you can do in life. Here was a man who passed away surrounded by loving family. Is that not the best possibly way to go? I was a pall bearer for my Grandmother and I still take pride in the fact that I helped lay her to rest. It's hard to lose someone to this stuff. The speed that it happened was mind blowing. Got my grandma too, never smoked a cig in her life, never lived with a smoker.
Sorry for your loss OP. Prayers to you during this time.
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My grandfather is going through the same thing. He tried the chemo route. The third installment is now killing him. Fuck cancer. Yeah I am a Christian but seeing what it does to a strong man is sad. There are times I can't stop crying. My prayers are with you OP.
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My grandfather is going through the same thing. He tried the chemo route. The third installment is now killing him. Fuck cancer. Yeah I am a Christian but seeing what it does to a strong man is sad. There are times I can't stop crying. My prayers are with you OP. It's no joke. My Uncle didn't even make his first chemo appointment. He was diagnosed 5 weeks ago. |
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I'm sorry for your loss. Can you share a story of your Uncle? I miss my uncle's everyday. My uncle was a tough SOB. He was born 3 months premature, in 1957. He's had issues walking his whole life, but it never stopped him from working on cars. In the end he developed emphysema, stage 4 lung cancer and pneumonia. He had no children, and I had an absentee father, so I was really his kid. If any of you smoke, please try to give it up for your family members. We're the ones who have to watch as you kill yourselves. I've lost my grandmother(who raised me) from emphysema. The doctor told her she had to quit smoking if she wanted to live longer. She asked how long, he said a year. She told him she liked smoking too much to quit for the last year of her life. My grandfather got lung cancer and didn't quit until he died while undergoing chemo. He made it a week on the chemo. My uncle who this post was about only quit because of the oxygen, but it was too late by then. My grandfather (that raised me) is all I have left of my life as a child. He promised me he'd live to 125 when I was a little boy. He's trying his best to hold up to his word, but after skin cancer, cancer in his jaw, and now lung cancer, I can't hold him to it anymore. He's buried his wife and now a child. It breaks my heart that he still smokes, but at this point it doesn't matter. |