My story: Lottie and small cell lung cancer

Lottie and her primary caretaker and daughter, Regina, share their courageous story of battling small cell lung cancer.

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Family is the most thing that's helpful when you're trying to manage cancer.

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They took me everywhere they went. I was never alone. In 2018, our mother was diagnosed with stage IV

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small cell lung cancer. She was given six to eight months.

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That was frightening. We were just getting through the loss of our father of throat and larynx cancer,

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so to receive that news about our mother was devastating. But being a woman of faith, we knew that it was just that.

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It was a test of our faith. What went through my mind was I'm going to fight this thing, and I'm going to beat it.

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She needed 24-hour care for more than a year, and we all came together as a family and set up of a schedule

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to provide our mother's basic needs. Whatever need it was that my mother had, we came together to make that happen.

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I was amazed how they all came together and worked together and took turns.

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One of them stayed with me every night, and I'm just so thankful. I never knew that they cared that much.

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Well, I know they love me, but you know, it's different when someone gives up their time

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to spend time with you. You only have one mother, and it is a blessing and a privilege to be able to serve her and take

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care of her needs. All sickness is not unto death, and attitude is everything.

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To see her successfully fighting after getting that diagnosis is nothing short of a miracle.

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She is to us the epitome of strength and resiliency, and we're just so grateful that she is where she is today.

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If the doctor diagnosed you with cancer, don't be afraid. Fight the fight with it. Do things on your own and what the doctor tells you.

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I did everything the doctors told me and what I needed to do, and God brought me through. I'm here to talk about it today.