The diagnosis...

The biopsy results came in and it turns out that my uncle has Stage 4 non-small cell lung cancer. 

Just so we are clear, I will post some information I got from: http://www.cancercenter.com/lung-cancer/stages/

Stages:

• Stage I non-small cell lung cancer: Cancer may be present in the underlying lung tissues, but the lymph nodes remain unaffected.
• Stage II non-small cell lung cancer: The cancer may have spread to nearby lymph nodes or into the chest wall.
• Stage III non-small cell lung cancer: The cancer is continuing to spread from the lungs to the lymph nodes or to nearby structures and organs such as the heart, trachea and esophagus.
• Stage IV non-small cell lung cancer: The cancer has metastasized throughout the body and may now affect the liver, bones or brain.

Now as if this is not scary enough, they were denied emergency medical assistance so they have no way to cover the treatments for radiation and chemo therapy. They are trying to secure the funds for radiation to begin that first because it is the more important treatment at the moment. The tumors on his brain pose a greater risk than the tumor on his lung so they want to treat those with radiation before beginning chemo on the mass on his lung.

At this point all we can do is pray for the funds to find their way to my aunt and uncle for treatments. Then pray that the treatments work. It's a hard pill to swallow for me so I can only imagine how they feel. I am trying to be there for him in every way possible, but it is hard when I have two kids and a husband of my own. I'm thinking about starting some benefit sales to help go towards my uncles treatment costs. I also started up a gofundme account for them as well. 

Trying to think up some good ways to help them out with funding for treatments, but I'm drawing a blank! 

If anyone is reading this please say a prayer for him... for us,.. for funding... Just pray... 



http://www.gofundme.com/42fy80