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Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 489 | I am not too worried about being able to drink alcohol again. Although with the flap I have learned to funnel liquids and can drink quite a bit at once - just kidding. I will be happy when I can have a soda again, or some fruit drinks that currently burn my mouth.
Pete you are right - a friend of mine who owned a tavern used to say "there is nothing worse than a drunk when you are sober or a sober person when you are drunk".
Patty
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SCC Floor of Mouth 7/06
9/06 Surgery, bilateral neck dissection, 58 nodes clear PT2pN0pMx
35 rad 2006
Recurred 6/08, 1 Carboplatin, 1 Cisplatin
Surgery 9/08 - Total glossectomy, free flap from pectoral muscle, left mandible replaced using fibula
35 IMRT & Erbitux 11/08
4/15/09 recurrence
6/1/09 passed away, rest in peace
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