Lung Cancer Changed My Life

serious towards everything. I would stop talking to my friends from Kingwood High School and my friends from New Jersey and as well as my family. Then one day, i suddenly became really tired and light headed and unable to function correctly. In a matter of minutes i was rushed to the hospital, and multiple test was concluded and the result was showing that i had stage two colon cancer. The word Cancer didn't shock me or scare me, but the only thing that scared me was the result of having cancer and how it's going to change me and what i have to through in order to live or have my normal life back.

We all have those moments that will change not only our lives and hearts forever. The past six years of my life have been filled with these moments. When the word cancer was first introduced to me, I had no idea what an impact this disease would have on my life at the time.

     Lung cancer is the most common cancer-related cause of death among men and women. Lung cancer can be undetected for many years causing it to become more dangerous and possibly fatal. There is not cure for lung cancer or any cancer, but if detected in an early stage the lung cancer can be detected, treated, and hopefully terminated. There are many new and developing treatments being tested now that may save lives in the future. Through understanding what the lung cancer is, doctors can easily diagnose and assess cancer patients.

Brief Description: Lung cancer, as with all cancers, is an uncontrollable increase of cells. It happens within the lung tissue, but it could also go on to affect other nearby tissue and spread to further out than just the lungs.

During my sophomore year, I became depressed and antisocial due to problems in my life. My mother has been sick with a brain tumor since 2009 and she was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2012. It has been very hard on me and especially for my mother. I worry about her because she has shown signs of severe depression, she often talks about that she would rather be dead than alive anymore. After all of the pain, all of the humiliation of not being able to walk well, the embarrassment of not being able to write well, all of the staring and comments I would hear about my mother, she is still strong. After 6 years of pain and suffering along the way, I do not blame her. Everything seems to get worse. She now needs surgery due to avascular necrosis that was caused by many years of chemotherapy. I began to lose motivation slowly because I did not have any friends in any of my classes and I felt like I was stuck in a

Eight years ago, my dad was diagnosed with lung cancer. He was receiving chemotherapy not too long before he passed away. When he got admitted into the hospital for the last time, my family and I took turn to be with him throughout the day. I remember the kind nurses that genuinely took care of us for the time that we stayed. They made sure we had a comfortable place to sleep and that we fed ourselves even though we had no appetite to eat at the moment. Until my dad's last breath, they were there to comfort and shared prayers with us. It was comforting to know that the nurses were there for us because my family and I had no one else besides each other since none of our relatives live in the States.

More than 50,000 people died in 2015 due to cancer, homicides, and drunk driving. Year of 2015 is the year that opened my eyes to what’s going on with the world’s current society. Cancer, homicides, and drunk driving are things I see as wrongful deaths. Others may see it as a misconception.

The year of 2012 did not only change my life but it affected my whole family. This is when my grandmother passed away of lung cancer. My grandmother smoked for a long period of her life and the outcome of that addiction ended with lung cancer. All of her grandchildren called her Gram. At the age of 42, her husband passed away and she turned all of her love and attention to all of her seven grandchildren. My gram was a very independent woman that loved her grandchildren with everything that she could give.

Growing up, I was introduced to death and funerals. I understood what was happening, but I never knew what was going on. I would ask the questions, “Are they coming back?” or, “ Do they even get a second chance of life?”

As a leader for my family, during my father’s absence, I gave attention to the simple things to bring tranquility to my home, as well as, hope to my sibling through making an effort to value the opportunities brought by our situation. The incompleteness of my family during this time gave me the chance to be more than just a brother, or a son, but an attentive leader who valued the significance my mentality had on those relying on

“Your grandfather has lung cancer and it’s late stage.” I recalled my father telling me. I was particularly close to my grandfather as he helped raise me. I wished I could be by his side, but I was thousands of miles away. Two years earlier, my mother decided to move to New York and my life as I know it changed forever .The extent of my vocabulary back then didn’t extend much further beyond “hello” and “goodbye”. I can see people talking to me, but no matter how hard I try, I can't understand anything that was said. My parents were too busy to help me, but my grandfather would call me every night. He spent hours encouraging me to keep learning and reassuring me I would quickly adjust. I would not have survived, and eventually thrived here in America without his neverending support. Yet, in his hour of need, there was nothing I could do to help. Learning

What’s one word that changed my life forever? Cancer. I never thought I would learn so much from what has happened to me. I found out how much you can learn from cancer, how it effected me and all the people around me and I what learned from being in this situation. My dads name is Daniel Kooima, but most people call him Dan for short. He works at Lems Auto Recyclers, in Doon, Iowa, as the bookkeeper. He loves working out in our garage on wood projects, fixing his Camaro and keeping up with NASCAR and local sprint car racing.

Often researches and doctors focus on established views of why cancer develops and what can be done to control it. This article highlights how a change in understanding can lead to some of the biggest advances in cancer screening and treatment. Here’s how TED is rethinking cancer: https://www.ted.com/read/ted-studies/medicine/introductory-essay

According to the American Cancer Society over 1.6 million people will be diagnosed with cancer this year. They also predict there will be over a half million deaths due to cancer this year alone. It is never easy to hear about someone you know having cancer. It hurts even more when it is someone in your family. I do not remember the exact day my mother-in-law was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but I will never forget the day she died. I use the lessons she taught me throughout the time I knew her every day at work and at home.

A gang of boys walked down the street. There was a lonely boy whose name is Philip, he was 17 years old. As he was walking their direction with his head down, staring at the ground and kicking the road beneath him. He knew the boys walking across from him would taunt him. They knew he was a lonely kid whose parents were drug addicts and whose siblings were gangsters. But he wasn 't like them, because he was different. He had talents that he kept inside of him. His family had caused a deep cut through his heart. He was the kid who was never proud of himself. He never tried anything because he thought people would laugh at him and make fun of him and his family. He just never had the courage