 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | Gary,
I tested positive for Hep C after my mother passed away in late 2000 from ovarian cancer. I spent most of 2001 trying to find out why I felt so tired and they found 4 pre-cancerous polyps in my colon and hep C. I spent all of 2002 on the hep c treatment and shortly after that they found SCC stage IV on the base of my tongue. It has been an interesting century, to say the least. Through all the radiation and chemo the hep c is still undetectable after the treatment. And by the way, I have been able to deal with the dehydration and dry skin issues of radiation and chemo from current knowledge left from the hep c treatment. Go figure!
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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