Good story for you guys... I was at a party on NYE and ran into an acquaintance (whom I am assuming was very intoxicated) who I havent seen since before I got sick. So she's like ohhh emily how ARE you??? in that annoying sympathetic voice people use when they ask a sick person how they are. so I kind of ignored it and I was like i'm doing great! how are you? then she asks me again in the same voice, we go through the same thing again, then she goes to introduce me to her boyfriend. while maintaining this pitying attitude, shes like this is emily, last year, emily.... and then she gave me a pouty face and a little side hug and i changed the subject before she finished the intro and walked away. does my medical history really need to be included in my introduction to strangers at parties?!?
Emily - 24 years old at diagnosis HPV-, no risk factors T2N2b Squamous Cell Carcinoma Left oral tongue, poorly differentiated Hemiglossectamy, reconstruction, partial neck dissection 30 Radiation treatments, weekly chemo (cisplatin) 1/13/12 last day of treatment Diagnosed October 2011
