#56130 02-23-2005 09:57 AM | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,244 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,244 | Hi everyone It's that time of the year again and I'm off to Spain for some SUNSHINE.  And some red wine. :rolleyes: I'm going to chill out for a month and then I will, MAYBE, be ready for the next two ops.  So I'll be back for Easter, pity I no longer like the taste of chocolate.  So I'll be thinking of you all with great affection, after all you are my NEW family... Sunshine... love and hugs Helen
SCC Base of tongue, (TISN0M0) laser surgery, 10/01 and 05/03 no clear margins. Radial free flap graft to tonsil pillar, partial glossectomy, left neck dissection 08/04
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#56131 02-23-2005 11:44 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 | Geeez Helen, a month. How great. I envy you. I love Spain, along with France, Italy, Germany, Austria, etc. We have taken three 5 week vacations to Spain over the years. Where in Spain will you be staying? Don't think Charlie and I are going to make Europe this year unless we go in the fall. Just never had the time to plan a trip.
My taste for chocolate did come back, although it tends to stick to my teeth. Try the hot chocolate for breakfast in Spain and see if that tastes good.
Well enjoy all that fine food and wine and relax. You deserve it. Have a great trip!
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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#56132 02-23-2005 12:55 PM | Joined: May 2003 Posts: 928 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: May 2003 Posts: 928 | Well, Cheers my dear....
Have a great time you deserve it.
Would you consider moving over there , from what I hear lots of Brits have done just that?
Love
Marica
Caregiver to husband Pete, Dx 4/03 SCC Base of Tongue Stage IV. Chemo /Rad no surgery. Treatment finished 8/03. Doing great!
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#56133 02-23-2005 04:06 PM | Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 94 Senior Member (75+ posts) | | Senior Member (75+ posts)
Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 94 | Helen,
I will open a Spanish red in your honor and tip my glass in your general direction. Live well, laugh often!
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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#56134 02-24-2005 10:16 AM | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,244 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,244 | Thanks All
Eileen we are renting an apartment near Benidorm, just north of Alicante, because it's out of season the rates are good and what ever it's warmer that here. Plenty of good deals on the internet.
Marcia there are more brits than spanish in parts but home is still England, always different when you go to live there, my spanish, few words that it is, come in usefull when we drive away from the coast, then it still is spain and spanish. Wish everyone but ME didn't drive on the WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD, THEY ALL FLASH THIER LIGHTS AT ME LOL..
:rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Sunshine, hopefully, red wine deffinite, and love and hugs to you all.
Helen
SCC Base of tongue, (TISN0M0) laser surgery, 10/01 and 05/03 no clear margins. Radial free flap graft to tonsil pillar, partial glossectomy, left neck dissection 08/04
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#56135 02-26-2005 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 | Helen,
Just remember to keep the white line and the driver together and you will have no problem. . This theory works until you get someplace like St. John, US Virgin isles, where you get a left hand drive car and have to drive on the right side of the road, meaning the driver is riding in the ditch and can't see anything if he wants to pass. The problem we found in Spain in 1989 was all these elderly drivers who only had ridden a donkey all their lives, were now out on the road in an automobile for the first time and trying to figure out how the steer, shift gears, and smoke at the same time. Prosperity will do that.
The Alicante area is the only area in Spain we have not traveled. Charlie always said too industrial, but I guess not. Northern Spain, especially the Barcleona area if we are going to talk coast, is my favorite because I love the food. Still like Madrid. Tapa hopping and dinner at 10:00 pm is fine with me.
Have a great trip. Will be thinking about you.
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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#56136 02-26-2005 03:20 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 | In China when going from Hong Kong to the mainland it switches from the left to the right although autos are set up the drivers side on the right. I am happy to let them do the driving.
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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#56137 02-27-2005 09:48 PM | Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 458 Platinum Member (300+ posts) | | Platinum Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 458 | And we've also got problems with the new drivers here in China, who drive, shift gears, smoke and do SMS on the cellphones.
And here, red lights are only a suggestion. Pretty colored lights on a pole.
Bob
SCC Tongue, stage IV diagnosed Sept, 2002, 1st radical neck dissection left side in Sept, followed by RAD/Chemo. Discovered spread to right side nodes March 2003, second radical neck dissection April, followed by more RAD/Chemo.
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#56138 03-03-2005 11:35 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 | Red lights in Italy are the same, maybe they slow down a little, but what I really like is the one way streets. These have nothing to do with the direction the car is travelling, only the direction the nose of the car is pointed.
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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