Mums lung cancer

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So the day is getting close for mums lung wedge surgery with VATS. It’s on Friday. She lives with me and we have a wonderful relationship. I can’t help wondering what if this is her last week and all sorts of things like this. She’s 80 and it really plays on my mind. She loves to hear about the positive outcomes on here. All she wants to be able to get back to is walking her little dog down the road once a day.
I have had breast cancer and the thought of mum needing chemotherapy if there is anything in her lymph nodes fills me with dread. Her nodule is 10mm .

Hope that everyone is having the best day that they can today

excavator over 1 year ago

I know it's easy to say and it's very scary but please try not to let thoughts like this dominate, if your mum wasn't considered fit to have surgery then the surgeon wouldn't do it. It sounds like a very frightening operation but the success rate really is very high and recovery should be fairly quick for wedge surgery. Surgery is the best possible treatment to provide a cure and this is by far the best option for her.

I was much younger when I had my right lung removed 10 years ago and my tumour was larger than 10mm, but it has worked for me so far.

I hope all goes well and mum is soon on the path to full recovery.

Made in 1956. Tested to destruction.

Hawkster66 over 1 year ago in reply to excavator

Thanks so much for your reply. It’s so reassuring to hear from people who have got through this dreadful disease. The consultant was very confident and reassuring and I am sure she will be ok. I jushate to see her going through this. On a positive she’s got all new nightwear for her stay and I have dyed her roots lol . Her biggest fear seems to be people seeing her without her teeth in, or godorbid the hospital losing them

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