Thanks everybody!

Gary, just so you know, I went the Hep C route before the cancer. I finished the Interferon/Rebitrol therapy November 2002 and my gland started swelling December. One doctor suspected the treatment compromised my immune system and contributed to the cancer.

I thought I was aging well until the past couple of years and it all caught up quickly.

I saw a sign in my doctor's office years ago that said "Getting Old is not for Sissies". I understand better today then back then.

Ed eek


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