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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 | Thanks for the update Travis and I hope you like the Military. It's like everything else. Just wgat you make it. Good luck and give that gal a big hug from me. Jim
Since posting this. UPMC, Pittsburgh, Oct 2011 until Jan. I averaged about 2 to 3 surgeries a week there. w Can't have jaw made as bone is deteroriating steaily that is left in jaw. Mersa is to blame. Feeding tube . Had trach for 4mos. Got it out April.
--- Passed away 5/14/14, will be greatly missed by everyone here
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Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 706 | Travis-I'll be there this Saturday. Probably toward noon.
cg to husband, 48 Stage 1V head and neck SCC. First surgery 9/07. Radiation and several rounds of chemo followed. Mets to chest and lungs. "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain." Went home to God on February 22, 2009.
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Joined: Jul 2009 Posts: 453 | Thanks for the update Travis. Wish I lived closer so I could visit. It truly warms my heart to know she is recovering so well. Give her our love from Australia.
Wendy
Wife to Steve 43. DX 5 May 09. T4N2MO SCC tongue, floor of mouth, lymph nodes & jaw bone
No surgery
Teeth removed 06/07/2009
radiation 13/07/2009 x 7wks
chemo 15/07/2009 x 3 Cisplatin
last TX 28/08/2009
25/11/2009 PET-lymph node activity.
08/01/2010 CT Scan-ALL CLEAR
03/03/2010-Peg removed
01/2013 left side of Jaw removed and replaced with pectoral flap.
23/12/2020 scan show lesion in tongue
01/2021 SCC stage 3 base of tongue diagnosed
01/03/2021 chemotherapy started.
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Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 681 | Travis,
The news about your mother's progress is very encouraging. I wish I were near enough to visit.
I will have her in mind in my Rosh HaShonnah prayers. As we wish each other: "a good and sweet year."
Semper Fi
SCC stage II Partial mandibulectomy w. neck dissection- July 2005. Renal cancer w. partial nephrectomy-Jan 2004. Breast cancer discovered in routine mammogram. Successful lumpectomy, sentinal nodes clear, RT only-2008 Reconstruction of mandible w fibula free flap-Jan 09. TORS removal of begnin pappiloma from esophagus-2010. Masectomy,rt breast 2013.
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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 718 | Here is information for cards or visits:
Lehigh Valley Hospital - Cedar Crest
Cedar Crest and I-78
P.O. Box 689
Allentown, PA 18105-1556
Visting hours are after 8:00 a.m. through 6:30 p.m. and then from 7:30 p.m. until early morning.
While she is in the burn unit, she is unable to receive flowers, magazines or anything. Also, leave purses and cell phones in your car...they are restrictive about what can be brought into the room. This will likely change when they move her to rehab.
I spoke to her today...I was thrilled to see her name pop up on my cell phone. She is sad and disappointed that she can't come home yet. When I read her the posts here about people planning to visit it really lifted her spirits!!
Margaret
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C/G: Husband, 48 (at time of dx)
Dx 5/18/07 SCC, BOT, lymph node involvement. T1N2BM0. (Stage 4a, G2/3)
Tx 6/18 - 8/3/07, IMRT x 33 Cisplatin x3 (stopped after 1st dose due to hearing issues). Weekly Erbitux started 6/27/07 completed 8/6/07.
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Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 253 | What is Christine's last name so I can send her a card.
Sandy
Sandy 56, BOT SCC Biopsy 1/21/09 Stage 3, T3NXM0.
Finished 3 cycle induction chemotherapy 4/7/09. (Chisplatin, 5-fu and Texotere). Re-staged 4/20/09,(very successful.) Will start Carboplatin/radiation 2 Gy/5 days/7 weeks (Tomotherapy) starting May 4th. Finished 6/22/09.
OCF member/supporter
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Catherine
2mm tumor excised 09/23/2008 (floor of mouth)
SCC (superficially invasive, well-differentiated)
Stage 1, T1N0M0
01/2009 and 01/2010 - PET/CT clear
Four and 1/2 years - NED!
"Detection can be easy, treatment is not!"
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Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,844 | I wish I could visit her, she's really been a source of inspiration and hope for me. Margaret, when you talk to her send her my best!
Eric
Young Frack, SCC T4N2M0, Cisplatin,35+ rads,ND, RT Mandiblectomy w fibular free flap, facial paralysis, "He who has a "why" to live can bear with almost any "how"." -Nietzche "WARNING" PG-13 due to Sarcasm & WAY too much attitude, interact at your own risk.
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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 718 | I did tell Christine about the overwhelming support she is receiving from her OCF friends. I read some of the messages to her too. She misses everyone terribly! It's a shame they won't let her have a computer in her room. I think it would be nice for her and for us to have her posting again.
In about a week she will go to another location for rehab. Perhaps there she will have less restrictions and will have access to a computer.
As you might expect, our sleeping beauty is a little weak from being sedated so long, sore from the surgeries and sick and tired of being sick.
And, her wonderful son, Travis, was with her. I'm sure she is going to miss him when he goes to military training next month.
Margaret
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C/G: Husband, 48 (at time of dx)
Dx 5/18/07 SCC, BOT, lymph node involvement. T1N2BM0. (Stage 4a, G2/3)
Tx 6/18 - 8/3/07, IMRT x 33 Cisplatin x3 (stopped after 1st dose due to hearing issues). Weekly Erbitux started 6/27/07 completed 8/6/07.
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Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 1,004 | Wow...this is great!! How wonderful that our girl is coming around. WendyG, you think Australia is too far to travel? lol...Just kidding!! I thought it was cute when I saw that.
I will definitly be making plans to see Christine. Sounds like when I took the series 6 exam for work. We could not bring anything with us. I was just happy I wasn't asked to wear my birthday suit. We couldn't even bring in a tissue.
Travis, I would also thank you for your service to us here at OCF and for serving our country:)
Suzanne
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T1 SCC on right side of tongue
Age 31...27 when diagnosed
4 partial glossectomies
No chemo or radiation
Biopsy on 2/2/10-Clear
Surgery needed again...no later than April 2011
Loving life and just became a mother on 11/25/10
It's not what we CAN'T do..it's what we CAN do:)
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