#33421 05-08-2004 06:05 AM | Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 143 Gold Member (100+ posts) | OP  Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 143 | O.K. Guys, I`ve just learned an ideal way to deal with anger,,,,,,,,SMASH THINGS...........I was blessed to inherit an ugly ceramic bull dog. I mean spiked collar and everything.........hated it from day one...............so, out he went, his name was Charlie, well now he`s like a thousand pieces, and do I feel better. I`ve hated that dog from day one, I mean he didn`t even qualify for shabby chic.........but Frank`s five foot Indian, who I named Kicking Bird, is off to Alabama with me........I had quite a time dancing around Christmas morning, dancing around with him and trying to get him stood up before Pacer got up............so, I`m trashing bad stuff and keeping the good.......just venting as usual.....................but, I`m finding smashing ulgy stuff is really good therapy........Hugs to All...........Dee | | | 
#33422 05-08-2004 06:53 AM | Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,163 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,163 | Kick some ass Dee!!!!!
Good to vent, We feel so much better afterwords.
Looking forward to the day we meet.!!!!!
Love Ya, 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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#33423 05-08-2004 07:10 AM | Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 | I have discovered a Road Rage that I didn't have before my diagnosis and treatment. It's amazing the people that have a license this day and age!! Vent away Dee, you deserve it.
Love, 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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#33424 05-08-2004 07:52 AM | Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 143 Gold Member (100+ posts) | | OP Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 143 | Minnie, Minnie, yes I will vent, vent. and still vent....................I have developed Maine road rage, if you get in front of me and don`t move. I pass, me and my 3 cylinder car.......My kids are keeping me going, my grandson is having his first vacation.........trying to stay positive, but taking that that awful dog and smashing it was so much fun................Are we demented? No, we are just real people dealing the best we can...........Love and Hugs, Dee | | |
#33425 05-08-2004 08:28 AM | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,244 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,244 | Well Dee
thank god for electric windows on cars.. much quicker to go down so I can stick my head and one arm out... shout LOUD and a warm gesture.. OH feels so gooood.... so sorry charlie never made the move.. some people will be sooo sad..
love ya
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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#33426 05-08-2004 08:31 AM | Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 | Boy do I remember Maine driving!!! You get on those roads and the person in front of you wants to go 25 miles an hour. I remember when I moved here to Virginia I couldn't go anywhere but the store up the street for a few months as the traffic was SO complicated and I was scared to drive in it. I finally found a friend that taught me the ropes to driving around here.
Dee, please say hello to Maine for me. I miss the simplicity of life there and I remember when I was so sick wanting to go "home". I get to spend two weeks there in July and I CANNOT wait as I didn't get to go last summer (was in the middle of radiation, yuck)
Take care Dee and I cannot wait to meet you at the reunion.
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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#33427 05-08-2004 03:09 PM | Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 246 Platinum Member (200+ posts) | | Platinum Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 246 | Guess you guys haven't experienced B-AH-STON drivers yet!
Kim
kcdc
Wife of Dave,diagnosed with Stage III Tonsillar SCC,August '02
Modified radical neck dissection followed by radiation therapy
'There is glory and radiance in the darkness and to see we have only to look"
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#33428 05-08-2004 04:09 PM | 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 | Oh no, Dallas has the worst drivers in the world. If you aren't going 100, they run you over. I used to think it was the slow pokes causing the problems but they have street racers on the highway in packs, running down motorists and people changing tires. Some guy in an SUV ran over 3 people night before last in HIS neighborhood and set his vehicle on fire to disguise the evidence. Is that dumb or what? I am just now able to drive around and not yell and flash the "international road sign". Minnie, I just can't imagine you with Road Rage! 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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#33429 05-08-2004 06:15 PM | Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 | Ed, it's not a pretty sight but it does happen! Here's a "most embarrassing" road rage moment.
My 18 year old attends Atlantic Shores Christian School and she is by far my most spiritual child. I have two daughters at that school this year. I drive them each morning and one day this mother just pi--ed me off, I can't even remember why. The rage took over me and in the middle of the Christian School parking lot I flipped her the "favorite finger" as my family calls it. Needless to say it took awhile for my daughters to accept my apology...........probably because everytime I would start to apologize I would start laughing! Even a nun would find the humor in that one, at least in my opinion. We laugh about it now and my Kelly blames it on my illness if her friends bring it up to her.
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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#33430 05-09-2004 12:56 AM | Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 143 Gold Member (100+ posts) | | OP Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 143 | Kim, don`t even talk about Boston drivers, made enough trips back and forth to Boston Hospitals to last me a life time in Boston traffic.......this is a off the subject, but the day Frank ot is new glasses a guy was looking at him and Frank nodded hello, the guy turned away. On our way out Frank flipped him the bird.Boy, was I proud of him! I was usually the one to stare people down if they looked............Hugs, To All.............Dee | | |
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