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Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 5,260 Likes: 3 | Good luck... hopefully it's nothing, and you're definitely healthier for giving up the cigarettes.
Cheryl : Irritation - 2004 BX: 6/2008 : Inflam. BX: 12/10, DX: 12/10 : SCC - LS tongue well dif. T2N1M0. 2/11 hemigloss + recon. : PND - 40 nodes - 39 clear. 3/11 - 5/11 IMRT 33 + cis x2, PEG 3/28/11 - 5/19/11 3 head, 2 chest scans - clear(fingers crossed) HPV-, No smoke, drink, or drugs, Vegan
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Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 143 | Welcome Army Wife,
Like you I am a newbie and my mother-in-law's oral cancer brought me to this site. I have learned so much from this site. As well as meeting very supportive individuals. Everybody is here to help each other. When I feel sad about Joyce, I try to find opportunities to cheer people up by posting here. Or I do post just to vent my feeling and sadness.
I wish you all the best. Spending happy thoughts and praying for your health.
BTW I am proud of you for saying NO TO SMOKING!!
Ina
Joyce March 1940 to January 2014
A wife, a mother, grandmother and great grandmother.
She fought oral cancer from late 2009 to Early 2014.
2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
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Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 3 | Hi Army Wife,
I am a former Marine Corps wife (in fact, when I was a patient at Walter Reed, they called me "that Marine Corps dependent). Please be very assertive with your doctors. I fully understand when you say they treat you like you are too young to have anything serious. When I was 25, I was having horrible pain shooting down my left arm. They gave me muscle relaxers and continually blew me off. The pain was so horrible that I kept going back. By the time I was diagnosed, 4 months later, I had lost the reflexes in my arm. I needed brain surgery and ended up with permanent spinal cord damage. All this to say that you know your body best - don't give up or take no for an answer.
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