#77999 08-03-2008 02:56 PM | Joined: May 2007 Posts: 44 Contributing Member (25+ posts) | OP  Contributing Member (25+ posts)
Joined: May 2007 Posts: 44 | I added the pictures Rich insisted I take. They are on the bottom of the first page. They are gross, and I thought about not posting them but he wanted them seen. Please read Richs plea and DFS. It could happen to you or someone you love! http://richsplea.synthasite.com/ | | | | | Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
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Julie:
I have read Rich's plea. It made me very sad for what you both went thru. It also showed me how courageous someone can be. Thank you for sharing this with the world.
ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive  | | | | | Joined: May 2007 Posts: 44 Contributing Member (25+ posts) | | OP Contributing Member (25+ posts)
Joined: May 2007 Posts: 44 | I know this sounds a bit nuts but I think I'm entitled to be a bit nuts, when I started this site I told myself if I could get 1000 people to read it then I have done my job and I can concentrate on the happy memories, I don't have that far to go Please read it and share it. I wonder if 1000 people read it how many will actually listen? maybe 1/10? that would be 100 people, that would be amazing! | | | | | Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 681 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 681 | Julie,
I printed the message from Rich's site for a young woman in a class I was taking. I was not sure how she would take it as I only know her casually. She read it before the class started and on a break gave me a hug and thanks and told me she really wants to stop smoking and is going to do something about it. This was before you posted the pictures.
I am going to print it out for my son who has been smoking for 20 years since he was a teenager. He is a real chicken about any kind of health issue. Those photos should be the answer to getting him to stop.
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: May 2007 Posts: 44 | Thanks so much for telling me that, Thats what make it worthwhile More than 1000 people have read Richs web site, plus the hundreds that read my profile and my journal on quitnet. The way I figure it it had to sink in to at less one out of 10. That is amazing! Rich would love it:) I'm going to take a break from it for awhile though. Right now it seems like the good memories are getting overshadowed. It means a lot that people are being helped but I gotta think of me too. Please continue to share it with whomever will read it but I promised myself a least a months break once it reached 1000 I have been quit for 1 Year, 1 Month, 2 Weeks, 5 Days, 20 hours, 47 minutes and 10 seconds (416 days). I have saved $3,751.78 by not smoking 16,674 cigarettes. I have saved 4 Months, 5 Days, 8 hours and 54 minutes of my life. My Quit Date: 6/15/2007 11:00 PM Please read Richs plea and DFS. It could happen to you or someone you love! http://richsplea.synthasite.com/ | | | | | Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 | I just came from Rich's plea aite. That man sure went thru hell and back before he passed. He sure had a great care giver and I wish you the best JulieKay. What an ordeal. Thanks for posting, pics and all.
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: Aug 2008 Posts: 716 | Having been by the side of the "last bed" on three occasions...with one Grandfather dying in my arms...I know exactly what you went through...it's terrible...I'm sooo sorry for your loss. I wish there were no diseases and such...just peaceful passings of old age...My heart feels your pain...God Bless you....
7-16-08 age 37@Dx, T3N0M0 SCC 4.778cm tumor, left side of oral tongue, non smoker, casual drinker, I am the 4th in my family to have H&N cancer
8-13-08 left neck dissection and 40% of tongue removed, submandibular salivary gland & 14 nodes clean, no chemo, IMRTx35
11-4-08 Recovering & feeling better
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