#55988 12-25-2004 07:55 AM | Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 206 Platinum Member (200+ posts) | | Platinum Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 206 | How is everyone today? Hope you have a Merry Christmas? How is the weather where you are is cold here was 11 last night. Have a good day
Cathy
SCCA Stage IV diagnosed 01/90
base of tongue with 1/2 removed.
With neck resection, radiation and chemo
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#55989 12-25-2004 11:34 AM | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 528 "OCF Down Under" "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | | "OCF Down Under" "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 528 | Hi Cathy It is Boxing Day here now, sunny and bright. Is that 11 degrees farenheit, no thanks! Merry Christmas, I wish you good health in 2005, with love from Helen 
RHTonsil SCC Stage IV tx completed May 03
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#55990 12-25-2004 04:40 PM | Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 104 Gold Member (100+ posts) | | Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 104 | Hi Cathy, 18 deg. F in Knoxville this morning. But since I live in the Pacific Northwest I will tell you that it was a beautiful day(  ) with temps in the 40's and rained all day. What else is new for up here. Hope you had a Merry Christmas and that your heating blanket worked well.  Peace Jack .......... Dx 1/15/97 SCC rt. tonsil met to rt lymph node Stg IV, Srgry 1/23/97 tonsillectomy & mod radical neck dissection, Radiation 35 trtmnts both sides | | |
#55991 12-25-2004 05:47 PM | Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 482 "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 482 | Cathy, it was low 80's here in south Florida. Supposed to go down into the 50's tonight as a cold front is moving through. May have some rain also. We had a wonderful Christmas today with all of the family that is in Florida. Hope your was pleasant as well.
Regards, Kirk Georgia
Stage IV, T1N2aM0, right tonsil primary, Tonsilectomy 11/03, 35 rad/3cisplatin chemo, right neck dissection 1/04 - 5/04.
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#55992 12-26-2004 07:19 AM | Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 206 Platinum Member (200+ posts) | | Platinum Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 206 | Hi Jack and Kirk, Yes, had a nice Christmas and kept warm. It's been sooooo cold up here will be glad to get to Florida. Enjoyed hearing from you? Please write some more. Cathy
Cathy
SCCA Stage IV diagnosed 01/90
base of tongue with 1/2 removed.
With neck resection, radiation and chemo
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#55993 12-27-2004 04:57 AM | Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 382 Likes: 3 Platinum Member (300+ posts) | | Platinum Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 382 Likes: 3 | Well I waited long enough that I can now saw it is NOT raining today!! What is Boxing Day Helen?? Always wondered and hope you have a nice one!! A Happy New Year with hope for a cure in 2005 - Kris
SCC Stage IV left tonsil neck disection 3/02 radiation finished 6/02 chemo finished 9/02
Stage 2A left breast cancer 3/09, chemo and radiation, finished treatment 2/7/10 -Stage 2 right beast cancer 10/14 chemo and radiation
Every day is still a gift :-)
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#55994 12-28-2004 10:22 AM | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 528 "OCF Down Under" "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | | "OCF Down Under" "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 528 | Hello Kris I didn't know that the US didn't have Boxing Day (26 December). I guess it came to Australia with our British heritage. Does Canada have it? From Google: 'The day after Christmas, the Feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, is better known as Boxing Day. The term may come from the opening of church poor boxes that day; maybe from the earthenware boxes with which boy apprentices collected money at the doors of their masters' clients. ' I learn so much from this board. Love from Helen
RHTonsil SCC Stage IV tx completed May 03
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#55995 12-28-2004 10:59 AM | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | I once got a refill for my DayTimer and it included a little sticker for all the world's holidays. Of course, I put all the Japanese holiday reminders on the correct pages plus as many as I could (or before I got bored with the task). I made it a point to leave voice mails for several co-workers' with a brisk announcement of the holiday. Happy Boxing Day was the one that got the most reponses! I'm sure they all wish I still worked there!  Ed
SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03
Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08.
Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11
Cervical Myelitis 09/12
Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12
Dysautonomia 11/12
Hospice care 09/12-01/13.
COPD 01/14
Intermittent CHF 6/15
Feeding tube NPO 03/16
VFI 12/2016
ORN 12/2017
Cardiac Event 06/2018
Bilateral VFI 01/2021
Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
Bilateral VFI 05/2022
Total Laryngectomy 01/2023
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#55996 12-28-2004 11:38 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 Guys,
I was once told by one of my very English coworkers that Boxing Day was the day that all the servants received presents (hence, boxes) from their masters.
Have a Happy New Year everyone!!
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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#55997 12-29-2004 11:56 AM | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | I forgot to mention that Boxing Day is also a Japanese holiday and everyone exchanges (boxed) presents.
Ed
SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03
Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08.
Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11
Cervical Myelitis 09/12
Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12
Dysautonomia 11/12
Hospice care 09/12-01/13.
COPD 01/14
Intermittent CHF 6/15
Feeding tube NPO 03/16
VFI 12/2016
ORN 12/2017
Cardiac Event 06/2018
Bilateral VFI 01/2021
Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
Bilateral VFI 05/2022
Total Laryngectomy 01/2023
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#55998 12-31-2004 12:34 AM | Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 18 Member | | Member
Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 18 | Canada also has a boxing day! It is the day for putting away all the Christmas decorations in boxes of course. Also for us it is a day for family and friends. After skating we have Hot Turkey sandwiches. We are lucky again today - our outdoor pond is not covered with snow and we will be celebrating the New Year with a skating party followed by a lobster dinner. My husbands's health continues to be good and we will be bringing in the New Year in fine spirits. Happy New Year Everybody!! | | |
#55999 12-31-2004 09:38 AM | Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 382 Likes: 3 Platinum Member (300+ posts) | | Platinum Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 382 Likes: 3 | Kennock-
Good thing you didn't post your address...it sounds like so much fun we'd all end up dropping by!! Yummm lobster dinner!! To 2005 - the year of the cure! - Love, Kris
SCC Stage IV left tonsil neck disection 3/02 radiation finished 6/02 chemo finished 9/02
Stage 2A left breast cancer 3/09, chemo and radiation, finished treatment 2/7/10 -Stage 2 right beast cancer 10/14 chemo and radiation
Every day is still a gift :-)
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#56000 12-31-2004 12:56 PM | Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,163 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,163 | Yummy lobster!!!
Marcee and I just finished our New Years Eve dinner, Portorhouse steaks marinated in a lemon pepper sauce and sprinkled with blackin seasoning. Fried in butter fresh mushrooms. I made a nice hot fire on the charcoal grill and got them just right. (pink in the middle and hot) Baked potato's with sour cream, Had a sliced cucumber and table onions. We ended the meal with strawberry cheesecake with cool whip. I am stuffed. The most i ate in one meal in a year and a half. When I go for chemo on monday that scale better show some weight gain!!!!
Happy New Year to All!!!
Your Friend, Danny Boy
Daniel Bogan DX 7/16/03 Right tonsil,SCC T4NOMO. right side neck disection, IMRT Radiation x 33.
Recurrance in June 05 in right tonsil area. Now receiving palliative chemo (Erbitux) starting 3/9/06
Our good friend and loved member of the forum has passed away RIP Dannyboy 7-16-2006
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#56001 12-31-2004 01:13 PM | Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 72 Supporting Member (50+ posts) | | Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 72 | Happy New Year to You, too, Danny. The meal sounds fantastic, but what are table onions? -Candace
Sister of guy w/base of tongue cancer, Stage IV, Dx 4/03, finished Tx 9/03
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#56002 12-31-2004 02:36 PM | Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 | New Years Eve here is boring and uneventful as it has been for the past 16 years! Neither of us are much for drinking so we always stay home with the kids, which can be just as much fun, take my word. We ordered take out, dropped two kids off at a friends house for a kids party, had our grandchildren over, and watched some movies. My husband is on some new medication for his blood pressure/heart problems and it makes him really tired so we'll be in bed early.
Lobster..............I grew up eating that stuff, in Maine it's like having hamburgers. I sure do miss it though!
Minnie
SCC Left Mandible. Jaw replaced with bone from leg. Neck disection, 37 radiation treatments. Recurrence 8-28-07, stage 2, tongue. One third of tongue removed 10-4-07. 5-23-08 chemo started for tumor behind swallowing passage, Our good friend and much loved OCF member Minnie has been lost to the disease (RIP 10-29-08). We will all miss her greatly.
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#56003 01-01-2005 04:46 PM | Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 194 Senior Member (100+ posts) | | Senior Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 194 | hi, I had a great Christmas at home with all of my family, and now I am in NY visiting my son and wife and my 2 year old grandson . One of the best things about surviving Cancer is getting to see him. I am thrilled to be here to be his Grandmother.Someone told me once they would have died before they would have went through all that I did.( Stage 4 cancer, failed femur flap and 12 operations in all till I was rebuilt.} All I have to do is look at that little face and him putting his arms out to me, and guess what, I would do it all over again just for that. Happy New Year and good health to all.
gnelson, StageIV, cancer free since Nov.9,2000
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#56004 01-02-2005 06:27 AM | Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 1 Member | | Member
Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 1 | Hi from Japan.
I am Japanese and do not know about Boxing day as a Japanese holiday, but we do exchange gifts during year-end period.
New year is another gift-giving time but this is basically for kids only.
Wish you all happier, easier, fuller year of 2005! | | |
#56005 01-03-2005 05:07 AM | Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 206 Platinum Member (200+ posts) | | Platinum Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 206 | Hi Oliva, I didn't know that Japanese got mouth
cancer. I'm sorry that you had to go through that.Japan must be pretty at this time of year? Hope to hear more from you and feel free to e-mail me anytime you want to chat.
Cathy
SCCA Stage IV diagnosed 01/90
base of tongue with 1/2 removed.
With neck resection, radiation and chemo
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#56006 01-06-2005 02:34 PM | Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 94 Senior Member (75+ posts) | | Senior Member (75+ posts)
Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 94 | Hi, Cath.
I'm listening to some blues music by Keb Mo and hanging out... waiting for the first snowfall of the year. We don't get much, so it's a big deal, especially for the grandkids.
Ken
SCCA T2N1M0 diagnosed 11/02, radical neck dissection, 7 weeks radiation, 6 surgeries to deal with osteonecrosis, 10 weeks hyperbaric oxygen. "Live strong. Laugh often."
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#56007 01-06-2005 02:45 PM | Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 274 Platinum Member (200+ posts) | | Platinum Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 274 | Ken,
I'm gonna take a guess here........I would say about 10 people here know who Keb Mo is, and I'm sure you are the only one listening to him tonight.
Glenn | | |
#56008 01-06-2005 06:30 PM | Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 104 Gold Member (100+ posts) | | Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 104 | Hi Cathy,
Like Ken, waiting for to see if the snow doeth fall. There were a few big, wet flakes down here this morning. Then the proverbial rain. A saying here in Washington is, if you want an accurate weather forecast, look out the window. If you don't like it, wait five minutes and look again. It has been quite chilly here, but not as cold as You were having just last week. Hope You are feeling warmer than You were. Glad You are doing OK. When are You moving to Florida?
Glenn,
I was listening to Keb Mo earlier this afternoon, along with B.B., Muddy, Candy Cane, Steve Trout et.al. Nothing like a little "Blues" to get the ol' heart pumping. Plus a little caffeine (OK, make that a triple breve with some french vanilla and cinnamon flavor).
Peace
Jack
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Dx 1/15/97 SCC rt. tonsil met to rt lymph node Stg IV,
Srgry 1/23/97 tonsillectomy & mod radical neck dissection,
Radiation 35 trtmnts both sides | | |
#56009 01-07-2005 01:50 PM | Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 206 Platinum Member (200+ posts) | | Platinum Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 206 | Hi Jack, and Glenn, I don't like blues but I know the groups that you are talking about. I like the
Irish music myself. We are waiting for more snow but haven't had any so far. Moving in July just in time for hurricane season. UGH!!!!
Hope your doing okay tonight?
Cathy
SCCA Stage IV diagnosed 01/90
base of tongue with 1/2 removed.
With neck resection, radiation and chemo
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#56010 01-07-2005 05:52 PM | Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 94 Senior Member (75+ posts) | | Senior Member (75+ posts)
Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 94 | Cathy,
Hmmmmm. Keb Mo meets the Chieftans. Now THAT's entertainment.
Good night all.
Ken
SCCA T2N1M0 diagnosed 11/02, radical neck dissection, 7 weeks radiation, 6 surgeries to deal with osteonecrosis, 10 weeks hyperbaric oxygen. "Live strong. Laugh often."
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#56011 01-07-2005 10:47 PM | Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 104 Gold Member (100+ posts) | | Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 104 | Hello Cathy,
Well we did not get any snow here in the southern part of Puget Sound. I am not going to lose any sleep over it though. I like Irish music too. Those leprechauns have really good voices. :rolleyes: My paternal Grandmother was 100% Irish and maternal side has lots of the Irish also. What part of Arkansas do You live in? Hope You are still feeling good today.
Peace
Jack
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Dx 1/15/97 SCC rt. tonsil met to rt lymph node Stg IV,
Srgry 1/23/97 tonsillectomy & mod radical neck dissection,
Radiation 35 trtmnts both sides | | |
#56012 01-08-2005 07:16 AM | Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 206 Platinum Member (200+ posts) | | Platinum Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 206 | Hi Guys, Glad your both doing well. No snow here.
Some where in Little Rock. Can't wait to get to the warm weather thow. I was stg. IV too on my tongue in 1989. So glad to have that long behind me.
Cathy
SCCA Stage IV diagnosed 01/90
base of tongue with 1/2 removed.
With neck resection, radiation and chemo
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#56013 01-28-2005 05:17 AM | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 71 OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 71 | Cathy....while this board posts real time, it is unlikely that you can use it like a chat board and ask if anyone is on at that moment in time. First you are assuming that if they are they are lookinjg at your thread, and second, posters are spread thorughout so many time zones; from London to Mid America to Hong Kong, that finding someone on at the exact moment that you post would be difficult.
Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
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#56014 02-02-2005 02:42 PM | Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 206 Platinum Member (200+ posts) | | Platinum Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 206 | Thank you Brian. I appericate your help.
Cathy
Cathy
SCCA Stage IV diagnosed 01/90
base of tongue with 1/2 removed.
With neck resection, radiation and chemo
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