 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | Lisa,
I saw a lot of survivors cheering as the crowd was cheering but my reaction was the same as yours. It was a very humbling and emotional time for my wife and me. I attended the Relay for Life in 2000 when my mother was terminal with ovarian cancer; I attended in 2001 after she passed away and a good friend was terminal with bone cancer; I attended in 2002 while going through the Hep C treatment but was too tired to stay all night; I did not attended in 2003 but did make it as a survivor in 2004. I guess I'm on the roll this century and can't stop now!
Rock Chalk Jayhawks! See ya in Vegas!
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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