Hello Charlenelouise and welcome to our forum.

I'm so sorry to hear that your dad has been diagnosed with lung cancer after his bowel cancer diagnosis back in 2016, of which he's currently in remission. What a stressful time this must be for you. But I'm glad you found us as speaking to those who can understand does help.

I'm sure some of our lovely members will come along shortly to share their stories with you and offer support, however until you hear from them feel free to browse the forum for stories you might want to read and join the discussion, everyone here is very friendly and you will surely find an ear to lean on.

Stay strong, Charlenelouise and remember we're here for you.

Warm wishes,

Renata, Cancer Chat Moderator

Hi Srennie

im really sorry to hear about your mum. It’s hearbreaking news when sumone  u love so much has to break the devestating news to the ones they love they most. It’s so hard staying strong all the time. I hope I hope u have the comfort and support you need at a time like this the most. 

Sending you lots of hugs back to u. 

Daddys girl x 

Compleatly heartbroken. Dunno how I’m going to servive. Had a phone call on Sunday night to say my dad had been taken into hospital the Saturday night. Problems with his brain and he’s having scans and things. My brother rings me today to say he has been told dad has a 3 CM tumour on his brain and problems with his kidneys. Not sure what exactly at this point. I don’t live in the same town as my family so am waiting on phone calls to keep me updated. The last time I posted in here was when I received a phone call from my dad explaining to me that he had shadows on the lungs after being in remission for  bowel cancer. He had scans and was waiting on results. The results came back a few weeks later that they had not spreaded. Now he has it in his brain and probably on his kidneys. To me this does not sound good and really struggling to stay positive at this point. All I keep getting told by people is to keep strong and stay positive. It’s so hard. I can’t live without my dad. So devastated. 

Hi Charlenelouise, 

I am so sorry to hear your latest update about your dad. It must be devastating for you, your bother and all your family. It must be really hard for you as you live in a different town too and having to rely on phone calls to be kept informed of the situation. 

I just wanted to let you know that we are all here for you during this difficult time and hopefully you will hear from some of our members who have been through this before. 

If you ever wanted to talk things through with our nurses, they have a free helpline you can ring - 0808 800 4040 you can call them Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm. 

Warmest wishes to you and your family, 

Lucie, Cancer Chat Moderator

I didn’t really want to reply to the moderator in particular. Just to post in general like a sort of update to myself.  I rang my Nan yesterday to see how her visit went with dad. It helped a little bit to talk with her. The highlight of my day though was a phone call from my dad. Just to hear his voice was so comforting. He has been put on strong steroids. So he didn’t sound the same. He had to think a lot about what he wanted to say and forgot his words sometimes. But that’s ok. He didn’t sound like he was in any pain and it was so good to hear his voice I didn’t care about anything else. He did say to me he had a CT scan and and MRI. And results will be Thursday. The upsetting part of the day was getting a phone call from my brother in absolute pices. He was told that dad has a tumour on the brain, it’s cancerous and it’s 3 CM. I think my dad forgot about this conversation from the doctors as he didn’t inform me. I no he would of. I don’t no if it’s operable at the moment or if anything can be done. So for now I have to sit tight and wait for someone to phone me and tell me. 

so I have heard from my dad a couple of times since I last posted. I now no his tumour is operable and is suppose to have a pre op on wed. I am keeping my fingers crossed everything is positive for him. I am really nervous how the operation will go. It’s on the brain so a big op. I am going to visit on sat and stay for a week as it is Easter holidays. It will be nIce to see my dad and an emotional as it will be the first time I have seen him since he has been diagnosed.  I just hope I can keep it together and be strong while I am seeing him.  Going to be hard as I am not very good at that.