Welcome to OCF. Im sorry you were not treated sooner. The most important thing about your post is that you are here and able to write the post. As a mother of young children, you are very blessed with being successfully treated. Please do not worry about a recurrance. It will steal your time away from you. Worrying will not keep it away if its going to come back. If that would happen, you have been thru it once and this time are more knowledgable and it would get caught much earlier than before. Keep going to your regular checks and tests. Best of luck with a cancer free future smile


Christine
SCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44
2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07
-65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr
Clear PET 1/08
4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I
surg 4/16/08 clr marg
215 HBO dives
3/09 teeth out, trismus
7/2/09 recur, Stg IV
8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy
3wks medicly inducd coma
2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit
PICC line IV antibx 8 mo
10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg
OC 3x in 3 years
very happy to be alive smile