LUNG FORCE Heroes
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Sue H. Growing up in the 1950s in a house where my dad and his father smoked unfiltered cigarettes caused me to have yearly bouts with respiratory infections and allergies.
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Sue G. My husband has struggled over the years with several health issues beginning with COPD (after smoking for 35 years and then quitting in 2002).
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Su W. I never thought I would be a lung cancer patient having never smoked and done all the "right" things to be healthy and live a long life. So you can imagine the shock of hearing "you have stage IV lung cancer" three years ago.
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Steven L. My story is about "Rinky Dink", my mom who passed away on 4/13/14 from Lung Cancer, I walk in memory of her. She was an amazing person not because she was my mom, because she was so caring and gave so much for her family. To this walk is in memory o
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Steve C. Thirteen years ago I watched my mother die a very unpleasant death from lung cancer.
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Stephen T. My name is Steve Tong a native and long term resident of Louisville. Kentucky. In the latter part of 2014, my mother Betty suggested that I participate in a test she had recently seen in Today's Woman magazine that she consistently read. The test was
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Stephen M. My name is Steve Mitchell and I am 27 years old. I am from northeast Ohio. I have always had asthma but it got worse as an adult.
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Stephen H. Stephen Huff is a high school teacher from Franklin, Tennessee, who has lived with stage IV lung cancer since a rare diagnosis at 29 years old.
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Stephanie W. Seven years ago, they found a 2 cm nodule in my right lower lung on a CAT scan of my abdomen. It was found by complete accident. I was 43 years old.
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Stephanie V. My father was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in August 2007. It all started in April 2007, he was coughing up blood and went to his physician who ordered antibiotics without even seeing him. Then in July 2007 he was complaining of mid sternal che
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Stephanie S. My mother was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2016. That was one of the worse days that I had ever experienced. The agony of watching my mother deteriorate was heart wrenching as well as eye opening.
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Stephanie S. Just before Thanksgiving in 2014, at age 45, I was diagnosed with lung cancer. A non-smoker, I share this story in hopes that it may help you or someone you know.
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Stephanie M. For nearly a year, I was short of breath but always told I had a cold, bronchitis or walking pneumonia—that my lungs sounded clear, and was given round after round of antibiotics, steroids, cough suppressants etc.
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Stephanie H. This story is about my mother who was diagnosed with COPD. She was not aware of having this chronic disease until the year of 2011.
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Stephanie G. My grandmother was diagnosed with lung cancer at 83, 40 years after she stopped smoking.
