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Your closest family members and friends who have seen you throughout treatment have probably adjusted to your circumstances, by the time your treatment ends, in a way that benefits all concerned. Nonetheless, you may find that some family members expect that, almost instantly, you'll be just as healthy and active as you were before, particularly if you're a young survivor of lung cancer. They may even become strident on this point, so strongly does human nature yearn for things to return to normal. You need to communicate clearly with them when you're feeling tired and under par, explaining that many cancer survivors experience long-term aftereffects, such as fatigue.
Some family members and loved ones may have feelings of anger, frustration, or impatience that they suppressed during your treatment. They may now allow these feelings to emerge. Candid discussions may defuse these feelings, but if the negative feelings are directed at you, family counseling may be a good choice.

In some cases, a spouse or partner may decide that this is a good time to end the relationship, now that its "over," and you're "fine." This is more likely in relationships that were experiencing problems before the cancer diagnosis.
Your very young children or grandchildren, lacking adult coping skills, might still remain mired in the distress and terror they experienced during your diagnosis and treatment. They might need long-term therapy or support with social and academic issues.

Getting out socially after treatment among those who know you less well can be entertaining and enriching or exhausting and disappointing. The reactions of coworkers, discussed below, mirror in some ways the responses you're likely to encounter from the rest of society. Unlike coworkers and family members, though, social contacts may not usually have the benefit of seeing you performing and producing, so their reactions may be more skewed and less informed.

It might be wise to be prepared for a variety of reactions that range from loving and positive to very odd, indeed, if you haven't already encountered the entire spectrum of these reactions in the course of being treated. Some lung cancer survivors report, for example, that others don't want the survivor to talk about their experiences at all. Others report that friends who avoided them during treatment relax and reapproach them after treatment ends. Still others find that they are stigmatized by the association of tobacco smoking and lung cancer, whether or not they smoked, and that in some cases others never really forgive them for having smoked.

Larry Coffman describes his life and activities now:
The doctors won't let me work and I don't think I could handle it anyway, so I am taking a course here and there at the local community college to keep my mind sharp. I have to take my oxygen bottle with me, and you should see the stares I get. I see people putting cigarettes out kind of fast when I approach. At my two youngest's Middle School, I tell the kids that want to know (and some that don't) about the dangers of smoking and allowing our environment to be poisoned. I consider this a privilege and an honor.

You might be able to defuse negative reactions, reinforce your reputation for tenacity and positive thinking, or even be a little audacious if you're in the mood for humor and not concerned about the social consequences. Some of the negative reactions and questions you'll encounter are simply the result of ignorance or a lack of careful thought, or are a front for competitiveness, spite, or sadism. You're under no obligation to go along with agendas that are not in your best interest, nor to waste a lot of emotional energy answering seemingly serious questions that in fact haven't been thought out carefully See Chapter 16, Getting Support, for more information about dealing with the ignorance or unkindness of others.

Ya some times it happens that when some treatment is going on we all become impatient to deal the situation.