LUNG FORCE Heroes
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vanessa w. I have not been screened but I was diagnosed with COPD a smoker since age 12 quitting twice over a 40+ history of smoking. In 2010 was when I was diagnosed and it has been down hill since.
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Vanessa G. I've lost 4 family members to lung cancer. It was hard to watch someone I love and look up to battle it.
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Valerie V. "Valerie, you have lung cancer." These words came through the phone, from the pulmonologist I had met with recently, and hit me like a ton of bricks.
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Valerie R. I started climbing for air in 2012 because an amazing Marine I met in 12/2011 had a cough that bothered me. I'm a nurse and I encouraged him to see a doctor.
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Valerie H. Just over three weeks ago my brother drove himself to the emergency room with severe shortness of breath. He thought he was having a heart attack.
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Valerie D. In the summer of 2012, my sister Eleanor Grace (who had relocated to California) came home to Hawai’i for a visit. During this time she spoke of a nagging cough she had “for a while and can’t seem to get rid of it.”
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Valerie B. My story is about my dear husband who was diagnosed 15 years ago with squamous cell lung cancer. He was operated on by a world famous doctor at Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital in NYC. She removed an upper lobe of my husband's lung and it was decide
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Ugarala G. I walk on behalf of my brother Curtis Garland Jr. My brother was wrongfully convicted and housed in a Texas prison called Beto Unit. Months before he was due to come home he began to experience traumatic asthma attacks in which he was rushed to a hos
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Trish A. My name is Trish and I am 51 years old. Thanks to lung cancer, I am also a widow.
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Tricia W. It was March of 2006 when I was first diagnosed with lung cancer, but I consider my journey unofficially starting June of 2005 when I was first diagnosed with pneumonia, strep and mono all at the same time.
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Tricia L. Growing up I was never very athletic and got out of breath easily. As a cheerleader, I always struggled. Once in high school while playing soccer the coaches thought I was hyperventilating, and handed me a paper bag to breathe into to recover.
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Tracy S. er primary care was treating her for asthma, which she never had in her life. Her swallowing of water made her cough but dr thought nothing of it. X-ray showed nothing,. She started having some back pain as well. She decided to not participate in the
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Tracy O. My husband, Kevin, was diagnosed Stage IIIa squamous lung cancer in January 2015. radiation and chemotherapy RLL lobectomy many days he was very tired the radiation caused him soreness swallowing lost nearly 30 lbs. and his hair. . In August, he rece
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Tracy F. Born in small-town Nebraska in 1941, my father began smoking cigarettes when he was a young adult. Our family photo albums are full of pictures showing my dad holding a cigarette or an ashtray strategically placed on the kitchen table nearby.
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Tracey S. My mother passed away April 3, 2017 after a three-year fight with lung cancer. My grandfather passed away June 2, 2017 from lung cancer and my dad has COPD.
