 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | It sounds like your healthcare providers aren't very good. Many of us went through similar processes but yours sounded much worse than what I went through.
You seem to want to make a deal. I will smoke and not worry if someone can convince me the nails caused my cancer. Things don't quite work that way. You may or may not discover what caused your cancer, assuming your biopsy I dictates such. You know the dangers of smoking but you are choosing to just let it go. That makes no sense. Either it's important enough to quit or it isn't.
I hope your biopsy goes well and the level of care is improved.
SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03
Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08.
Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11
Cervical Myelitis 09/12
Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12
Dysautonomia 11/12
Hospice care 09/12-01/13.
COPD 01/14
Intermittent CHF 6/15
Feeding tube NPO 03/16
VFI 12/2016
ORN 12/2017
Cardiac Event 06/2018
Bilateral VFI 01/2021
Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
Bilateral VFI 05/2022
Total Laryngectomy 01/2023
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