 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,128 | I have a call in to the nurse practitioner on my cancer team (Along with Dr Haakenslash and the Cutthroats; good name for the OCF official rock band!) to see. Rather get it done on this side of Puget Sound as it's more convenient for me.
This is a banner year for me, what with two CT, one PET and one MRI, cancer surgery, colonoscopy and enlarged prostate treatment later this month (I am pushing the extra stuf because I have already met my out-of-pocket for this year!). Might as well have my throat messed with on the inside as well as the outside...
Age 67 1/2
Ventral Tongue SCC T2N0M0G1 10/05
Anterior Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 6/08
Base of Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 12/08
Three partial glossectomy (10/05,11/05,6/08), PEG, 37 XRT 66.6 Gy 1/06
Neck dissection, trach, PEG & forearm free flap (6/08)
Total glossectomy, trach, PEG & thigh free flap (12/08)
On August 21, 2010 at 9:20 am, Pete went off to play with the ratties in the sky.
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