First I'm so sorry Karen about your Mom my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. I know alittle bit about what your going through lung cancer has affected my family terriably, it all started with my Mom being dx'ed with lung cancer luckily for my Mom and our family they found it early enough before it had spread she had surgery they removed ahalf of one lung and I thank God everyday she's still here. Now my mom has only one sibling a sister and about one year after my mom was dx'ed with lung cancer my Aunt Jan was dx'ed with the same cancer but sadly in my Aunt's case the cancer had already spread to her brain and she died 8 months later. I hate cancer period.