Graf #10

When I was younger my Grammie died from chronic lung cancer. She tryed to fight it, but eventually it got the best of her, and took her life. I didn't really know what this illness was until I got older. As I got older I learnt about treatments and what exactly lung cancer was and how it developed.
When I got older I got into the medical terminology and some of the study of dieseaes. I learnt that chronic lung cancer is a long term cancer that affects the lungs. I learnt that there is two different kinds of lung cancer which is called non-small cell lung cancer and small cell lung cancer. Small cell cancer seems to spread and grow quickly throughout the body unlike non-small cell lung cancer it grows slowely and spreads slowely. Cancer bascially shuts down your lungs. People that I have talked to in my family told me that my grandmother use to say that it feels tight and it feels like you can't breathe. I learnt that one of the main treatments is chemo and radiation. In my studies I learnt that chemo and radiation may have side effects. Sometimes with radiation it can cause hair loss, fatigue, and naseua. Sometimes radiation and chemo don't work because the tumor may be too big, and there's nothign that they can do about it.
In my grandmothers situation her cancer was too far along and the chemo and radiation wouldn't help her situation. She instead decided to go home and spend the rest of the time that she had with her family and die happily at home instead of depressed in a hospital. The weeks went by and she had gotten weaker and alot worse. My family knew that soon her time would be up. As much as my family didn't want to they had to have her admitted. In order to help her pain they had her on morphine 24/7 and it didn't even seem to touch the pain. A day or so later she passed away. It was on July 4th. Because I was so young I didn't really understand the situation, but now by doing the research, I understand why lung cancer took her life, and how it did.