Welcome back,

For many of us doctors, various procedures and tests have become our new "hobby." Coming here and reading your posts make this bearable.

My grandmother had bad hearing, cataracs and terrible arthritis but flew all over the country for our various weddings and such until she was well into her nineties. Whenever anyone asked how she was she replied in her Molly Pichon-like accent "Mineh chiltren should feel so gut ven dey get to mine age." I am not sure if this was a blessing or a curse.

SCC stage II Partial mandibulectomy w. neck dissection- July 2005. Renal cancer w. partial nephrectomy-Jan 2004. Breast cancer discovered in routine mammogram. Successful lumpectomy, sentinal nodes clear, RT only-2008 Reconstruction of mandible w fibula free flap-Jan 09. TORS removal of begnin pappiloma from esophagus-2010. Masectomy,rt breast 2013.
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