This website is dedicated
to my mom, Linda. She is missed dearly by her family and friends.
My mom died of lung cancer. She was diagnosed with small cell cancer,
which is terminal. The doctors said she could possibly live one year
with chemotherapy and radiation or six months without. The treatments
were not to cure her, but to help her live a few months longer and to reduce
the size of the tumors. She lived 9 months with the treatments.
When she was diagnosed with lung cancer the doctor
said it was a result of smoking. My mom smoked for 30 years. The
Surgeon General's warning on cigarettes has changed in the last few years.
It now says that smoking causes lung cancer. Not everyone who
smokes gets terminal lung cancer. Some people get curable types of
cancer. And some people get lung cancer and have never smoked. But
I have to believe it's not worth the risk. For more information on lung
cancer go to the American Lung Association
and the American Cancer Society websites.
I would also like to say how much Hospice helped
while my mom was dying. They have a website with information on what
their organization does. I cannot say enough about what they did for my
mom and our family.
I wish my mom could have been here to see her
granddaughters, Ashton & Madilyn...to
see her grandson, Aaron, growing up so big...to see her youngest son, Cory,
graduate from high school...to see her sons, Robert and Cory, get married...to
meet her two new daughter-in-laws, Stephanie & Lana...to call any four of us kids
just to say
she was checking on us because she hadn't talked to us in a few days...to sell
our crafts at craft shows together just before Christmas every year......to
grow old with my dad.................
My mom is in heaven. She accepted Jesus as her
Savior before she
died. I can't wait to see her again someday.
