|   Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) 
 Joined:  Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 |  Now Mark, the extra belly button isn't really tha bad.  And then there is Halloween.  It was mean as I see now when I used to "flash" people with the big tube hanging out.  Some of us were not as trim as you and the extra weight needed to come off anyway.    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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