I wrote earlier, my mom has been battling since being diagnosed in early August at the age of 79. Soon after the biopsy the fluid started, they drained a couple of liters with a needle, it came back in a week or so and they inserted a chest tube, she spent the next 10 days in the hospital and was discharged to a rehab factility. In two days she was back in the emergency room with fluid building up again and extreme trouble breathing. They inserted a 2nd chest tube and she spent the next two weeks in the hospital until the fluid stopped. Her first chemo treatment with Cysplatin & Taxol did not work and they put her on a different type of chemo treating her once a week two weeks in a row and with a week off then repeating the cycle. Unfortunately the Cysplatin & Taxol made her hair fall out did not work. The new chemo has allowed her to keep what hair remained. I am happy to report the fluid has not returned for at least 5 weeks, but she has lost alot of strength and has good days and bad days in a rehab facility.