#6598 12-30-2005 08:03 PM | Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 316 Platinum Member (300+ posts) | OP  Platinum Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 316 | Hello all, It's six hours to New Year in Down Under, so I wish you all a good one. A new year, a new positive. Have a look at Sydney on TV...we always do a great display. I'm off to the beach for some fireworks... Cheers! Tizz 
End of Radiation - the "Ides of March" 2004 :-)
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#6599 12-31-2005 01:37 AM | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 417 "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 417 | The best to you in 2006, Tizz. Sidney always pulls out the stops in their pyrotechics displays.
Darrell - Mississippi - USA
My niece, a special education teacher, will be in Sydney, and other cities in your country during the month of March. She and other teachers of children with special needs will be the guest of your government so she doesn't have a clue as to where she will be on a day to day basis.
Stage 3, T3,N1,M0,SCC, Base of Tongue. No Surgery, Radiationx39, Chemo, Taxol & Carboplatin Weekly 8 Treatments 2004. Age 60. Recurrence 2/06, SCC, Chest & Neck (Sub clavean), Remission 8/06. Recurrence SCC 12/10/06 Chest.
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#6600 12-31-2005 12:32 PM | Joined: May 2002 Posts: 2,152 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: May 2002 Posts: 2,152 | Happy New Year to you and all of our cyber friends around the world. May 2006 bring us all health, happiness, and peace.
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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#6601 12-31-2005 01:45 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 | Happy New Year all. Personally, I won't be sad to see 2005 slipping out the door. I hope we all have a wonderful New Year.
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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#6602 12-31-2005 10:36 PM | Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 316 Platinum Member (300+ posts) | | OP Platinum Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 316 | Back again, Today is Sydney's hottest day on record - the thermometer at Sydney's Airport stopped at 45 deg. C!!!...the hottest day in Sydney on record, (in my small lifetime ;-) )...and too hot to walk a couple of blocks to the beach...My poor black cat ("tizz"), is flatter than I've seen her before...At least we have a large bath to "swan in", and a sprinkler over our balcony table Enjoy the snow...  Cheers! Tizz
End of Radiation - the "Ides of March" 2004 :-)
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#6603 01-01-2006 03:32 AM | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 624 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 624 | Hi Tizz --
We watched Sydney's New Year's bash in telly -- very impressive as usual!
No official fireworks or celebrations here in Washington DC, a very dull New Year's -- Baltimore of course had *their* annual harbor bash but since we have been to Baltimore a zillion times in last 6 months, decided to stay home and veg out and drink sparkling cider -- some neighbors had nice (illegal) fireworks which woke all the local sleepyheads (and dogs!) up at Midnight!
Cheers to all, happy 2006!!
Gail and Barry
CG to husband Barry, dx. 7/21/05, age 66, SCC rgt. tonsil, BOT, 2 nodes (stg. IV), HPV+, tonsillectomy, 7x carboplatin, 35x tomoTherapy IMRT w/ Ethyol @ Johns Hopkins, thru treatment 9/28/05, HPV vaccine trial 12/06-present. Looking good!
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#6604 01-01-2006 06:12 AM | Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 663 "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 663 | The celebration here in Houston Texas was bittersweet.
We are most certainly happy to see the New Year arrive and even though he didn't say it I know that Harry was thinking about last year and not knowing if he would see this year or not.
Thanks to the miricles of medicine and I dare say his absolute stubornness he is still here moving strong.
My mom has been here since the 20th and she has been up and down. You see my sister, the non-admitted alcoholic has let her down terribly and my moms heart is very sad.
For the first time my sister didn't even call on New Year's eve to wish any of us a happy new year. She didn't come and spend it with her family, and over the last couple of weeks she has promised to go and do things with my mom and then not show up and not even bother to call.
My mom said that she finally called this morning and my mom said she was still sleeping and would call her back. Mom only got her voicemail as seems to be the norm.
I am not so nice about all of this because it angers me to know end to watch her hurt my mother the way she does so I called this morning as well and got the voicemail and I left a very direct message about what I think about the way she has been acting.
I know it won't make a difference because she just avoids anything that really requires a confrontation to be solved but I am not going to just sit back and tippy toe about all of this bullshit that she thinks she can just pass around without getting any of it in return.
We shot our wonderful fireworks and sipped the champagne with the kids and Harry and had a lovely New Year celebration.
My wish for this year is that things might calm down for a while and that happiness will prevail. I will hold onto that tightly!
To all of you, my friends, there are not enough miles around the world that can seperate us because the bonds that we have made here are infinite. Thanks for being there when any of us need that helping hand, that lift from the depths of despair, those reminders that life is always worth fighting for!!
I will remember 2005 mostly for the welcome I have received and the long enduring advice and friendship that comes from all of you!
I wish you all the besst in 2006! Keep fighting, you are not alone. We all fight together!
With Love Always!
Cindy
Caregiver to ex-husband Harry. Dx 12/10/04 SCC stg 3, BOT with 2 nodes left side. No surg/chemo x4 /rad.x37(rad comp. 03/29/05)Cisplatin/5FU(comp. 05/07/05)-T1N2M0-(cancer free 06/14/05)-(12/10/06) 2 yr. Survivor!!!
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