Here is an update on her condition, this is an excerpt from her last email. Sounds encouraging. :O)

Hi Rob,
I want to start out by saying I am home from my lung surgery at last...I obviously made it through the surgery and now I am in the recovery stages..I feel like I was ran over by every semi in the world but I made it so far. The good side is so far it looks like the surgery was a success after removing a good portion of the lung, though it looks like a month or two down the road I will need some follow up chemo treatments to insure they got all the cancer etc. So that is the good side, the downside is I am so full of pain there are times it is barely even tolerable no matter what pain killers they give me..