Caring for my husband with late-stage lung cancer

Thanks for the support from everyone. Andrew passed away this evening.....peacefully.... we had a couple bad days....but glad to know there is no more pain and suffering. So thankful for the 56 years we did have. May he soul Rest In Peace.

Thanks for the support from everyone. Andrew passed away this evening.....peacefully.... we had a couple bad days....but glad to know there is no more pain and suffering. So thankful for the 56 years we did have. May he soul Rest In Peace.

I am doing well. Casey had been in the care center for just short of three years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease and vascular dementia about 3 prior to that. We have great memories after 65 years of marriage, and also been through a lot with 5 children, 6 grandchildren, 9 g-grandchildren and 2 g-g-grandchildren. Two of my children and a granddaughter live close so see them frequently, but everyone else is scattered from Washington State to Florida, as happens with many families these days. Our son who lives in Arkansas has recently been diagnosed with stage 4 stomach cancer so that is a concern, but we will get through this. I'm so thankful for my wonderful church family. We are having Sunday Service live through Facebook, and a daily 5 minute prayer service at 6 pm Live on Facebook. This will continue at least until this COVID-19 pandemic is over. We have had Live Face book and YouTube services filmed and archived for several years, but only the sermons. Now they include music contributed by many of our talented members. Makes it much more meaningful.

Being unable to meet with friends for lunch several times a month and going to DAR and church women meetings has made the days lonely, but I am keeping myself busy writing notes to the shut-ins and visiting on the phone with others, offering hints to parents on Facebook of ideas I used in my 24 years of teaching lower elementary students and my own family, to occupy those busy little hands when they have to stay home.

I miss Casey like everything but know he is in a better place. The past three years have been very difficult for him and me,and I never told him I was going home, just that I had to go take care of his little dog, Suzy. He would have wanted to go home with me otherwise. He was a very busy and active man, always working in the garage or yard, playing pool almost everyday with friends at the community center, visiting neighbors, eating out with me, family and friends,etc. It was very difficult seeing his personality change so he did not see anything good in anybody and always finding fault. Refused to continue going to play pool even though I said I would take him after he couldn't drive anymore. I have great memories that will carry me through.

God is probably keeping his busy or he keeping God busy.

Thanks for the support from everyone. Andrew passed away this evening.....peacefully.... we had a couple bad days....but glad to know there is no more pain and suffering. So thankful for the 56 years we did have. May he soul Rest In Peace.

Thanks for caring. I had to call hospice last night.....severe pain in his head.....forehead area. Increased morphine and gave another pain medicine earlier than I would have. Took about 15 or 20 minutes and pain eased. Hospice said the cancer has probably spread to his brain. Better today. Right now it is to me like the Coronavirus....Wish we knew when the end would come. I don't want nor want to see him suffer.....All in God's hands.🙏

My husband has advanced COPD and stage 4 lung cancer. He just had his first treatment on dec. 11 this year. He only weighs 105 pounds.. I know how hard it is to watch them waste away and how scared they must be. My husband went into respiratory distress last sunday night and was taken by ambulance to the hospital. He will be discharged tomorrow. All he keeps saying is that he wants to go home. It is heartbreaking. Today, at the hospital, while watching him sleep, I also prayed that when God takes him that he does so when he is asleep and can go peacefully. It is too hard to watch them suffer and I don't know if I have the strength to do it, although I must. I will pray for God to give us both the strength we need.

My husband has advanced COPD and stage 4 lung cancer. He just had his first treatment on dec. 11 this year. He only weighs 105 pounds.. I know how hard it is to watch them waste away and how scared they must be. My husband went into respiratory distress last sunday night and was taken by ambulance to the hospital. He will be discharged tomorrow. All he keeps saying is that he wants to go home. It is heartbreaking. Today, at the hospital, while watching him sleep, I also prayed that when God takes him that he does so when he is asleep and can go peacefully. It is too hard to watch them suffer and I don't know if I have the strength to do it, although I must. I will pray for God to give us both the strength we need.

My husband has advanced COPD and stage 4 lung cancer. He just had his first treatment on dec. 11 this year. He only weighs 105 pounds.. I know how hard it is to watch them waste away and how scared they must be. My husband went into respiratory distress last sunday night and was taken by ambulance to the hospital. He will be discharged tomorrow. All he keeps saying is that he wants to go home. It is heartbreaking. Today, at the hospital, while watching him sleep, I also prayed that when God takes him that he does so when he is asleep and can go peacefully. It is too hard to watch them suffer and I don't know if I have the strength to do it, although I must. I will pray for God to give us both the strength we need.