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This article rang a bell with me as it deals with how Robert Ebert is coping with the aftermaths of surgery for jaw cancer that had spread from his thryoid. He is still battling. Esquire Cancer Ebert
One part that echoed my own feelings:
[quote] Roger Ebert can�t remember the last thing he ate. He can't remember the last thing he drank, either, or the last thing he said. Of course, those things existed; those lasts happened. They just didn't happen with enough warning for him to have bothered committing them to memory � it wasn't as though he sat down, knowingly, to his last supper or last cup of coffee or to whisper a last word into Chaz's ear. The doctors told him they were going to give him back his ability to eat, drink, and talk. But the doctors were wrong, weren't they? On some morning or afternoon or evening, sometime in 2006, Ebert took his last bite and sip, and he spoke his last word.[/quote]
Another part captured how I feel about others eating:
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When his friend suddenly apologizes for eating in front of him, for talking about the buttered scallops and how the cream and the fish and the wine combine to make a kind of delicate smoke, Ebert shakes his head. He begins to write and tears a note from the spiral.

No, no, it reads. You're eating for me.[/quote]

Charm


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Nice excerpts Charm, it's a great article..... Now if you had been paying attention, or subscribed to the OCF FREE news feed, you would have read this days ago when we posted it.... http://oralcancernews.org/wp/roger-ebert-the-essential-man/

Of course since then you would have also read about the work OCF is doing in Appalachia Free clinics, http://oralcancernews.org/wp/oral-c...g-devices-to-west-virginia-free-clinics/ and much more.

http://oralcancernews.org/wp/category/oral_cancer_news/

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Thanks for the article. WOw my gosh he has realy been through hell. He is an amzing person. He still lives his life to the fullest. K


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Amazing article about an amazing man. Makes me so very sad though to remember those that didn't make it through the battle.


cg to husband, 48 Stage 1V head and neck SCC. First surgery 9/07. Radiation and several rounds of chemo followed. Mets to chest and lungs. "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain." Went home to God on February 22, 2009.
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Just saw that Roger Ebert will be on the Oprah Winfrey show tomorrow, March 2, 2010...I'll be watching...


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Yes, the OCF news feeds mentions that and adds that Mr. Ebert is "ridiculously happy" over his new computer voice crafted from his spoken words on DVD. So Oprah will be its public debut
thanks for updating this thread pookie
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Thanks for posting that article and I for one will do something I never do, watch Ophra. This man is truly a tough bird to have gone thru what he has. He has me rethinking what they want to do to me and I said lets wait. Thanks again Brian and Charm


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.
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You guys beat me to it! Yes, Roger Ebert will be on Oprah tomorrow afternoon (March 2nd). Here's the latest article on the OCF news site that talks about Roger's new computerized voice. How cool is this?

http://oralcancernews.org/wp/roger-...rized-voice-produced-from-his-own-words/

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DEFINATELY going to be recording oprah!


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