OP Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 | Thanks for all the replies. I am having my thyroid checked on Monday as my doctor thinks that may be causing some of the issues. We buried Mrs. Jeanne Carleson on Wednesday, wife to Gary, mother to Joel, Sally, Anna and Jared, all still in high school. She died after a 5 year battle with ovarian cancer. When diagnosed they gave her less then a year to live and no hope. She told her doctor that maybe he didn't have hope but that she did, and went on to live five more years. She died of the same disease that took her own mother when she herself was 17, how sad that she had to see her own daughters deal with the same type of pain. It makes me feel selfish that I'm in such a slump. Thanks for the encouragement.
SCC Left Mandible. Jaw replaced with bone from leg. Neck disection, 37 radiation treatments. Recurrence 8-28-07, stage 2, tongue. One third of tongue removed 10-4-07. 5-23-08 chemo started for tumor behind swallowing passage, Our good friend and much loved OCF member Minnie has been lost to the disease (RIP 10-29-08). We will all miss her greatly.
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