#48233 05-25-2007 06:33 AM | Joined: May 2002 Posts: 2,152 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) |  Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: May 2002 Posts: 2,152 | Hi Petey,
Glad you are home and on the road to recovery. Hope it is a speedy one.
Take care,
Eileen
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Aug 1997 unknown primary, Stage III
mets to 1 lymph node in neck; rt ND, 36 XRT rad
Aug 2001 tiny tumor on larynx, Stage I total laryngectomy; left ND
June 5, 2010 dx early stage breast cancer
June 9, 2011 SCC 1.5 cm hypo pharynx, 70% P-16 positive, no mets, Stage I
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#48234 05-25-2007 07:05 AM | Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 166 Senior Member (100+ posts) | | Senior Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 166 | Pete, glad to hear you are up and around. I wondered how long it would take you to start stirring things up. Keep the "Petey" attitude going and I am pretty sure things will turn out good.
Bill B. Dx 10-16-06 Stage 4 T2N2bM0 SCC Left Tonsil,3 nodes. 1st tx 11-28-06, last tx 1-8-07. 3x Cisplatlin, 5fu pump, and Doxetaxel. Modified neck dissection,20 Nodes removed, all clear 02-21-07. HPV+,33 IMRT start 3-22-07 70GY,Completed 05-04-07  | | |
#48235 05-25-2007 12:03 PM | Joined: May 2007 Posts: 17 Member | | Member
Joined: May 2007 Posts: 17 | I think anyone who has endured what you have gone thru for the past several days DESERVES to be crabby. Your loved ones will understand. Now it's time to head for the open door and get out of the hallway!
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma, epithelioma-like carcinoma. (T2ANOMO IIa). Completed 35 rad treatments June 19, 2007.
"When god closes one door he opens another; but sometimes it's hell in the hallway."
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#48236 05-25-2007 12:47 PM | Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 446 "OCF Canuck" Platinum Member (300+ posts) | | "OCF Canuck" Platinum Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 446 | Welcome back, Pal. Glad you made it O.K.
We knew you could do it, now YOU know you can do it.
Isn't this a LOT better than the alternative??
Take care, write when you're not grouchy ;^)
Wayne
SCC left mandible TIVN0M0 40% of jaw removed, rebuilt using fibula, titanium and tissue from forearm.June 06. 30 IMRT Aug.-Oct. 06
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#48237 05-25-2007 01:49 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 | Petey,
you should be ashamed of yourself for abusing your nurses and doctors. They didn't have to treat you at all. Besides that they didn't give you cancer either.
An "attitude of gratitude" is what AA teaches. I hope that you are adding this to your 4th and 5th steps of people and institutions that you are going to make amends too.
I suspect that you "hurt the ones you love" because you really aren't in the program yet. Talk to your sponsor.
We all have difficulty getting through treatment and it's aftermath. I am still making amends to my wife - 4+ years later, but I never abused the dedicated people who were trying to save my life.
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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#48238 05-25-2007 02:47 PM | Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,019 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,019 | Petey, I undertand how hard this surgery was but I have to say that, like Gary, I was thinking of how wrong it was to take it out on your caregivers who have stood by you and nurses at a hospital that is treating you when you have no insurance. I'm very happy you are finally on your way to being cancer free and I hope you can manage to continue down that road without being too hard on those around you. Nothing wrong with being grumpy and pissed off at the situation you're in--just don't make others who aren't to blame suffer for it!
Hang in there, Nelie
SCC(T2N0M0) part.glossectomy & neck dissect 2/9/05 & 2/25/05.33 IMRT(66 Gy),2 Cisplatin ended 06/03/05.Stage I breast cancer treated 2/05-11/05.Surgery to remove esophageal stricture 07/06, still having dilatations to keep esophagus open.Dysphagia. "When you're going through hell, keep going"
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#48239 05-25-2007 03:37 PM | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 525 "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) | | OP "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 525 | Hey Gary. You are a funny man! The caregivers would kick it off with a rude comment but I still always said thank you when they left. And I never said Doctors. Just because the torturer isn't charging does not mean you have to be on your best behavior. Rudeness begets rudeness. Have you ever picked up a hurt animal out of the street to help it, only to have it attack you? I did twice. And they were my dogs who loved me unconditionally. When I got out of ICU my roommate was a friend of Bill's. (Overheard his company) And I told him that I was now at step 1 again, because I had regressed to that point. And I did call my sponsor and did 2 & 3. Also you will see that I wrote that I still thanked God every morning and every night thru my pain. I spent 2 tearful hours buying Thank You cards today. $43.00 is a lot of cards. One for each and every caregiver, nurse, station desk, doctor, reporter, hospital, business persons and cameraman. I kept a list from day 1. My wife put a copy of "Living Sober" in my suitcase, which I never opened until the day I left. Did I do good honey? Your reply sounded like it was written by Nurse Ratched in the movie "One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest". LOL I got to go because "IT'S MEDICATION TIME, MEDICATION TIME"! LOL 
DX 3-21-07 L tongue,SCC Stage IV (T3N2MO) TX Slash/Burn/Poison Method.
***Rapid Aggressive Recurrence 8-4-07 with same DX/TX. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. Never Give Up! ****UPDATE**** Our dear friend Petey passed away, RIP 9-2-07
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#48240 05-25-2007 09:29 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 | Petey,
I'll think about you while I'm taking my meds tonight (to the strains of Montovani's "Charmaine" [the music they played during medication time in the Cuckoo's Nest"]).
Call me "honey" again and I'll ban you forever ;-)
PS The last injured animal I saw - I shot.
In any case I'm glad that you made it though it - is there radiation in your future as well?
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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#48241 05-26-2007 02:53 AM | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 525 "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) | | OP "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 525 |
DX 3-21-07 L tongue,SCC Stage IV (T3N2MO) TX Slash/Burn/Poison Method.
***Rapid Aggressive Recurrence 8-4-07 with same DX/TX. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. Never Give Up! ****UPDATE**** Our dear friend Petey passed away, RIP 9-2-07
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#48242 05-26-2007 10:58 AM | Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 2,671 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 2,671 | Hey Petey! So-o-o-o glad you made it thru surgery. I'm sure you made quite an impression on everyone at the hospital! Be really extra sweet to your wife and those close to you, now. It could come in handy in the days ahead. Keep up the good fight!
Anne-Marie
CG to son, Paul (age 33, non-smoker) SCC Stage 2, Surgery 9/21/06, 1/6 tongue Rt.side removed, +48 lymph nodes neck. IMRTx28 completed 12/19/06. CT scan 7/8/10 Cancer-free! ("spot" on lung from scar tissue related to Pneumonia.)
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