Re: Mercy....
I don't know if this qualifies as support, but here goes...<br /><br />In my teenage years, I had the great displeasure of watching my grandmother who very close to me, die from complications of lung cancer... This lady though small in stature,(95Lbs soaking wet if that much) was as tuff as nails and could handle anything you could throw at her...<br /><br />After at least 30 years of smoking, one day she came down with some nasty flu like symtoms, Coughing almost uncontrolably.... After about a week past she was not getting any better, but actualy getting worse... Her Doctor immidately admitted her to the hospital.... <br /><br />A few days after they removed a third of one lung and a quarter of the other to lung cancer, I went to see her in the intensive care unit, and it was something I'll never forget.... Tubes coming out of here and there, Iv's, oxygen, and who knows what else... Scared the hell out of me....<br /><br />Now she managed to recover somewhat and lived almost two years after that, but she had constant medical problems... In and out of the hospital thereafter... During the last few months of her life she was on oxygen constantly, and the last few weeks she could barely breathe even with the 02... She said it was like running a marithon trying to breathe through a straw...<br /><br />Lung cancer took away everything she loved... Golf, bumming around with her buddies, taking me to the driving range to hit some balls, Gone.. All Gone...<br /><br />Finaly four years ago my ol' Pops decided to give em' up after thirty years and watching his mom die a slow, painful death.... I say "decided", but is was more like I was ready to beat the tar(no pun intended) out of him if he did'nt quit...<br /><br />He says that he feels so much better even though he gained about fifteen extra pounds.. He's working on that extra weight but not doing to well at it... He does'nt cough up them morning tar balls anymore either.... He eats breath mints like there going out of style, but it beats smoking...<br /><br />So Guys: Fight the good fight... Ya'll are Tuff-E-Nuff... Do whatever it takes to quit...
