I appreciate that, Larry. Just so everyone knows, I did not write that to garner sympathy. I wrote it because the reality of some things does not set in until you're really shaken by it. Nobody worries about the dangers until they've felt the danger in some way. I've seen the effects of smoking now, and I don't want it to happen to anybody here on this list.
- Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry C. Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 10:03 AM Subject: Re: Smoking was: New Years Resolutions > My sympathies Matt. I know what you're going through, having gone > through something similar. > > larry > > On 1/3/06, Chesty Puller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yes, PLEASE stop smoking, for yourself, your wife, and the rest of your >> family. >> >> My father-in-law was diagnosed with lung cancer in just this past >> October. >> They immediately put him on radiation and chemotherapy. >> >> In November, the doctor gave him a at most one year to live, if >> everything >> went WELL. I was told that 70% of lung cancer patients die within one >> year. >> >> On Christmas day, he was feeling particularly awful, so we loaded him up >> and >> took him to the hospital. >> >> They operated on him to remove fluid from the lungs. However, after the >> surgury, they were not able to get the infected lung to reinflate. They >> had >> him on a ventilator to keep him alive. Three times they tried to remove >> it, >> only to have to put it right back in. >> >> The rest of his body, while not great, is still kicking with no real >> problems. He's conscious, he can communicate, he's thinking fine. His >> lungs are dead. He was caught in between life and death - he's alive >> only >> because the ventilator was keeping him alive, and that's no life. >> >> On New Year's Eve, my mother-in-law made the decision to remove him from >> the >> ventilator. We were all there - his wife (53 years old), his daughter >> (my >> wife, 25 years old), his son (20 years old), myself, his sister, and her >> husband. We stood around him after they removed the ventilator and cried >> as >> his body gasped for air that his lungs could not provide. Somehow, he's >> managed to stay alive, and is even speaking a little. The doctors are >> surprised, we were all surprised, but the fact remains that his body is >> still broken with at most one lung at partial capacity. >> >> It's like watching a media stream where the incoming content is set at an >> extremely high bit rate and you're on dial-up. Only this is going to >> kill >> him. >> >> I do not know how long he will remain alive. >> >> I implore you, and anybody else who smokes, and cares about the family >> around him, to stop smoking. Quit cold turkey. Don't do it. Get the >> patch. >> Chew gum. Have your jaw wired shut. Just stop smoking. >> >> It is going to kill you before you want to die. It is not a death like >> you >> see in the movies - where someone gracefully passes away. It's ugly, and >> your family will be left far sadder than you'd ever expect. >> >> - Matt >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Paul Ihrig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "CF-Community" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 6:07 PM >> Subject: Re: New Years Resolutions >> >> >> > get my pant waist to a solid 38 - or dream 36. >> > weight under 200 >> > >> > quit smoking >> > >> > stop drinking beer on school nights. >> > >> > o and have a baby.... >> > >> > >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:190359 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
