OP  Senior Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 138 | I am finally scheduled for the port and peg to be put in this Friday so I'm assuming radiation and chemo will start next week. The surgeon said putting in the port is a 90 minute procedure!! I didn't think it was that complicated. Did everyone have to go to outpatient and have that long of a surgery for the port? I'm pretty sure I can handle that. It's still the mask that has me in a dither.
BOT-SCC Partial glossectomy 7/16/09.
Stage IV, Rt ND 10/2/09.
Teeth out 11/5/09.
Port/peg in, 11/20/09.
7 wks rad & chemo, end 1/22/10
lung, colon biopsies 1/9/11 - both cancer
colon resect surg 1/10/11
Folfox + Avastin - discontinued 6/11
lung surgery 3/13/12, 5/1/12
mets to liver and bones
passed away 9/4/13
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