The vicious disease took Olja's father and husband: He started coughing blood and I knew... Everyone ignores THESE SYMPTOMS
"While my father was fighting lung cancer, I was a child, 13 years old, my brother 11, and my sister 9. My mother bore the burden of that fight with the help of my father's family. Symptoms appeared in August, after diagnosis, in October one lung was removed. Recovery from the surgery was not easy, but it gave hope for recovery. Unfortunately, from January everything went downhill, and at the beginning of April he lost the battle at the age of 44. All in all, less than eight months," begins the story for Telegraf.rs Olja Ćorović, whose insidious disease took her father first, and later her husband.
TL;DR
- Olja Ćorović's father was diagnosed with lung cancer.
- He was 44 years old when he lost his battle with the disease.
- The illness progressed rapidly, with one lung removed and his passing occurring less than eight months after diagnosis.
- Olja also lost her husband to the same disease.
- She was 13 when her father was diagnosed, with a younger brother and sister.