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#46805 05-12-2006 05:42 AM | Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 153 Gold Member (100+ posts) |  Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 153 | Ed,
That's a great quote and I find some solice in that. My brother did all those things from the minute he was born. Although he was 4 years younger than me, he had lived 50 times the life I have or will ever live. Here's to him and others like him who have the courage to take life by the horns and live it to its fullest without fear. My hat's off to you all.
Tonya
Sister of 32 year-old oral cancer victim. Our battle is over but the war rages on. My brother passed July 26, 2005. He was a smokeless tobacco user.
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#46806 05-12-2006 07:32 PM | Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Lorie,
Like Ed I too remember the OCF convention like it was yesterday and Don looked great in the photos. I am shaken, stunned and saddened by the news. It's taken a while to get up the nerve to reply. I was just several months ahead of Don also with a stage III/IV tonsil cancer. He is living my nightmare. I don't think that I have slept an entire night since the end of treatment.
Tell Don that I'll be keeping you both in my prayers and that I hope that he finds peace and acceptance. The hospice people just want to make you as comfortable as possible and in your own bed. They helped with my Dad and my stepmother and they were terrific and he or I wouldn't have gotten through it without them.
God bless you both.
Love Gary & Leah
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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#46807 05-13-2006 12:30 PM | Joined: Oct 2016 Posts: 284 Gold Member (200+ posts) | | Gold Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Oct 2016 Posts: 284 | Lorie,
I am not too far from you and my heart goes out to you and Don. If there is anything at all the I can do for you please do not hesitate to ask. Please know that you are in my prayers and thoughts daily.
Hugs,
Dani
Originally joined OCF on 12/12/03 as DaniO or Danijams
Dani-Mom SCC BOT & floor of mouth surgery-recur then surgery/rads & chemo completed 3/04
surgery 11/06 to remove dead bone & replace jaw w/ leg bone & titanium plate
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