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Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 38 | Nate did a very wonderful thing posting his logs on YouTube. It made me realize how thankful I am to continue surviving this nasty oral cancer. It brought back all the pain of how it felt to withstand radiation treatments and to always be thankful to be able to eat without a feeding tube, without the blisters and that awful stage where everything either burned or tasted like cardboard. I am so glad that I am coming up on my second year anniversary of the end of treatment. My mom and dad took such great care of me and my family for a long time and I need to thank them again and again.
Hope you all get a chance to view Nate's logs. They are titled, "Cancer Fight Log 1" and are numbered up to 23. If you do not have experience with the radiation treatments, you should watch the logs and it may help you get through it. If you lived through it, this is a reminder........
Bee Boppin' Barb
Teacher aged 48, SCC Left side and floor of Tongue, Dx December, 2009. Stage II T2 N0 M0 Successful partial glossectomy surgery with thigh flap and neck dissection 3/8/10. 6 weeks of radiation tx ended 6/30/10. Happily surviving!
"Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere."
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Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 5,260 Likes: 3 | God bless... Will check it out... 
Cheryl : Irritation - 2004 BX: 6/2008 : Inflam. BX: 12/10, DX: 12/10 : SCC - LS tongue well dif. T2N1M0. 2/11 hemigloss + recon. : PND - 40 nodes - 39 clear. 3/11 - 5/11 IMRT 33 + cis x2, PEG 3/28/11 - 5/19/11 3 head, 2 chest scans - clear(fingers crossed) HPV-, No smoke, drink, or drugs, Vegan
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Female, nonsmoker, 70, diag. 5/09 after tongue biopsy: stage IV. Left hemi-gloss. and left selec. neck disec. 30 lymph nodes removed May 20. Over 7 weeks daily rads. with three chemo. PEG removed 12/4/09 Am eating mostly soft foods. Back to work 11/09 Retired 4/1/11. 7 clear scans! Port out 9/11. 2/13. It's back: base of tongue, very invasive
surgery involving lifestyle changes. 2/14: Now speaking w/Passey-Muir valve. Considering a swallow study. Grateful to be alive.
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Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,844 | Barb,
I posted the links on OCF's Facebook page and mine. I use these in my presentations to show people who have never been touch by this experience a real side of what patients go through mentally and emotionally.
I'm honored to call Nate a friend and have been able to spend time with him and his family, they truly are warriors and inspire me.
Strength in numbers
Eric
Young Frack, SCC T4N2M0, Cisplatin,35+ rads,ND, RT Mandiblectomy w fibular free flap, facial paralysis, "He who has a "why" to live can bear with almost any "how"." -Nietzche "WARNING" PG-13 due to Sarcasm & WAY too much attitude, interact at your own risk.
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Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 329 | Barb,
Thank you for posting I didn't know he had a blog.
Connie
SCC. of the left lateral tongue, anterior two thirds, T1 possibly a T2.
Left partial glossectomy, left selective neck dissection 4/21/09. Nodes clean, No Rad, No Chemo.
CT Scan 9/11 clean, CT Scan 9/12 clean
Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL. A+.
My hometown Lockport, NY.
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