 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | I know of persons here, who focused on vanity and vanity won. This is a tough disease and every weapon in the arsenal needs to be employed to fight it. It is a ruthless, unrelenting and formidable foe, at the very least.
In A.A, they have a saying "...half measures avail us nothing" (sorry Charlie [Sheen]) but if you are not willing to "go to any lengths" you will never find a cure. In many ways cancer and alcoholism are very closely related in the philosphies of dealing with them
With some speech therapy you may very well improve your speech to remove your self consciousness of it.
Last edited by Gary; 03-01-2011 03:40 AM.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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