Thank you, I have been wondering about some of those myself.

MEC Mucoepidermoid cancer

I'm not sure if this is the place to tell you who I am and what my problem is. Last Thursday I was told by an ENT specialist that I have cancer. I don't know exactly what it is called. It is on my gum and soft tissue under my tongue. I am going for surgery on July 17th and I am scared stiff. I do not know what to expect.
I don't know all of the abreveations yet as I am a newbie.Thank you for listening to me.



Arlene

Welcoem to OCF Arlene. You will soon get the hang of this forum. There are so many helpful, encouraging members who will help guide you thru this.

When you want to start a post its easy. Just go to the topic you and and then click NEW POST. Also under the tab of My Stuff, click on profile and write a few things for a signature. These 2 things will help us to help you.

Have you had a second opinion? How was your cancer determined? Biopsy? Did you have a CT or PET scan yet?

Dont worry about the abbreviations, you will unfortunately understand them all very very soon. There is so much info here you can read for hours and get quite an education. Just remember, everyone is different. They respond to treatment and medicines at different rates. Also recovery is at ones own pace. You can get a general idea what to expect but its up to you and your body how things go from there. Dont let someone else's story scare you. Prepare for the worst but hope for the best.

Take soemone with yoru to appointments to write things down. Ask questions, surgeons operate thats their job. Will you be having radiation and chemo? Who will help you and be your caregiver? Start lining up friends relative and anyone who offers to help. Keep a list, even if they pick up your meds or do a load of laundry it will help.

Best of luck, I know you are scared and its ok, we will help

greatgam4 If you read the first page of this thread that you are on there are all the abbreviations there to get you started. Print it out so that you can refer to it as all this begins to play our for you. Once you start your own thread of ideas and questions people will find you and continue to follow you, helping as you need it. Start in the introduce yourself forum.

BOGUS POST copied from BRIAN'S POST above: #87854 - Sun Jan 11 2009 06:52 PM

Yep. Little Sir (or Ms) Echo was very busy last night copying posts by Brian, DavidCPA etc and reposting them without attribution. Each and every post is just a paste and copy from a prior one in the thread. Quite juvenile. Not even amusing as some are the original poster's concerns. The key is the profile: zzjo770 is a "seo" which stands for Search Engine Optimization in regular acronyms but more accurately here as Shallow Entertainment Oaf
Charm

I deleted him and all his posts earlier today.

David, I bet that felt good! The power you have! That is what is great about OCF -- very little "junk" mail on here, or as I called him a "vermin".

None of us with THE POWER are here 24/7 so it helps like you all do when you PM me or even quicker, e mail me but that aside the first thing I check when I come on is new posters and I examine their Profile to make sure there are no links, then I read any posts they have made and sometimes I even have to put them on a "Watch Posts" alert.