LUNG FORCE Heroes
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Angela B. I lost my mom, Deborah (Pierce) Bailes, on February 19, 2019 to lung cancer. Being so young—she was just 58 years old—and otherwise healthy, the most difficult thing about this loss was that it felt like she never even had a chance.
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Angela B. I lost my mom, Deborah (Pierce) Bailes, on February 19th 2019 to lung cancer. Being so young – she was just 58 years old – and otherwise healthy, the most difficult thing about this loss was that it felt like she never even had a chance.
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Andree s. In January 2017, I went to the ER in Kaiser Permanente. I received treatment for asthma and chest X-ray. Left the facility with prescribed medicine and been told that I have something on the right side of the lung.
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Andrea W. My mom was diagnosed with lung cancer on August 18, 2019. She had not been sick, and it was found unexpectedly. She did not fit the criteria for lung cancer screening.
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Andrea S. My mother died of lung cancer at the young age of 44. I was only 10 years old when it happened and I recently turned 44 this last month.
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Andrea S. In September of 2014, my twin daughters were born 12 weeks early. They both spent many months in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, fighting to grow and strengthen their lungs.
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Andrea N. My name is Andrea and I was a caregiver for my Mom for fourteen years. During the last couple years of my Mom's illness, my Auntie Isabelle was a huge source of emotional support to me.
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Andrea H. A few decades back, my grandmother, Adele, discovered that she had lung cancer.
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Andrea H. I lost a dear friend to COPD in 2013. It is so easy to take something as simple as breathing for granted, but it's not so simple for everyone.
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Andrea E. I lost my mom four years ago to lung cancer. At the time I didn’t know the devastating statistics surrounding this disease, especially in women. I also didn’t know how quickly the disease can progress if not diagnosed early.
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Andrea B. There are two things that add to the grief I feel after losing my husband, Dan, to lung cancer in April 2013. The first is that he blamed himself for his disease because he once smoked. The second is that he would have been an ideal candidate for scr
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Anastasia E. Through secondhand smoking, I got chronic asthma. All 3 kids had numerous mysterious ear bleeds, which were attributed to secondhand smoking later on. My dad finally quit. But, he coughed up blood on our white kitchen sink one night. Months later, he
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Amy R. I was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer at age 41. My story began with a cough that lasted 6 weeks. I am a Registered Nurse and mother of two young children, ages 7 and 3. I didn't have time to get sick, and I was too stubborn to go to the doctor.
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Amy P. I lost my dad to lung cancer in 1978
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Amy L. In August of 2013 my mom went in for a routine chest xray prior to a hip replacement. In that film they discovered a mass on the upper right lobe of her lung. Further testing confirmed stage 4 small cell lung cancer that had metastasized to her bones
