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Message: [QUOTE="firecracker22, post: 647232, member: 20316"] A very good friend of mine has cancer, and I don't really know what to do. He just found out in April. He's 30, and the biggest tumor is in his lungs. The one in his brain responded to treatment and shrank to a blood clot and I think it went away entirely. There are also some on his stomach and kidneys. But the one in his lungs is not responding to chemo, and it's not looking good. All the doctors know is that it might be linked to exposure to radon or asbestos at some point. He is a good friend, and actually an ex boyfriend from a few years back but we're friends now. Since he got sick, we talk a lot more. He's bored since he can't go to work (electrician at a machinery plant). We usually go out for drinks or a movie once a week or so, and talk a couple times every week. Normally we don't discuss his cancer at all, and I think he likes that--I ask him how he is feeling once and that is it, instead of bugging him about how everything is going. But tonight we talked on the phone and he said that it's not looking good, and the CAT scan and MRI that he is going in for this week will kind of be the telling factor. I told him "you'll be okay, you're a fighter" but I don't know if I handled it well or not. I guess I just needed to vent. I have two other friends who have serious illnesses, and it's WRONG for anyone to have to go through this, especially at such a young age. I'm sure some of you have been here . . . is there anything that helps? Things that don't? [/QUOTE]

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