Mom and Dad arrived home from their month-long cruise, looking refreshed and ready to take the cancer head on.  They barely had a day to rest before dad started his treatments.  That first week back was chock full of appointments.  Dad had to get a power port installed in his chest for the chemotherapy.  A…

The cancer diagnosis brought with it a whole slew of things that needed to be considered, talked about, and decisions to be made. It was also the start of a seemingly never ending string of doctor appointments. There is the primary family doctor, the primary oncologist, the radiation oncologist, the pulmonary specialist and various other…

My father was the first to be diagnosed with lung cancer.  The events that lead up to his diagnosis started out by accident.  My mother went to have a chest xray done for her yearly physical early in 2013 and my father figured it had been a while since he had one so he asked…