Monday, May 23, 2011

Jimmy Carling Passes Away From Lung Cancer

James Turner Carling

Marla Carling, Jimmy's wife, reports that he passed away in his sleep May 18, 2011, at about 9:30 PM.

About a year ago, Jimmy had the lower lobe of a lung removed and was told that the surgery was successful in removing all of the cancerous tumor(s).  However, four weeks later, to the day, he was stricken with a seizure.  The cancer had metastasized to two tumors in the brain.  Both tumors responded to radiation therapy and appeared to go away.  Then, a new tumor appeared on the other side of the brain.  In a period of two days, near the end of January 2011, Jimmy had five strokes.  He did somewhat recover from these strokes and seemed to be doing fairly well, despite being given about two weeks to live at that time.

Marla's prayers were answered in that Jimmy passed in his sleep and did not suffer excruciating head pain from the metastatic brain tumors.

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