"Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 559 Likes: 1 | Mamacita - I too am glad to hear the good news. Sorry you have such dull choices to celebrate, like doing laundry and working for a living. A week on a warm, sun bathed beach somewhere in the tropics with a frozen margarita seems more appropriate than the overcast and frozen snow covered north that is Wisconsin in winter.
But what I really wanted to say was I noticed what you said about the members of the forum family pulling you through this.
I was talking to someone just the other day and she said that I was so lucky to have a lot of friends that helped get me through it. At first I agreed as I am blessed to have a lot of friends who kept up with me, and called me, and offered to do things for me (driving, shopping, house cleaning, etc). But then all of a sudden I realized they weren't the ones who kept me sane through this ordeal. It was my brothers and sisters here on the forum that did that, people from all over the U.S., from Canada, even from Europe; people who answered my posts in the middle of the night because I couldn't sleep, people who knew just what to say to reassure me that I was okay, I was going to get through this just fine. What they did was incredibly important, and occured at just the right time.
Tony
Tony, 69, non-smoker, aerobatics pilot, bridge player/teacher, avid dancer (ballroom, latin, swing, country)
09/13 SCC, HPV 16, tonsillectomy, T2N0. 11/13 start rads, no chemo 12/13 taste gone, dry mouth, 02/14 hair slowly returning 05/14 taste the same, dry sinuses, irrigation helps. 01/15 food taste about 60% returned, dry sinuses are worse in winter. 12/20 no more sinus problems, taste pretty good
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