| Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,128 | I personally like to know what the next step will be if the worst happens, in part so I can mentally try it on for size and get used to the possibility, but I do NOT confuse this 'what if' planning with the reality.
It's one thing to consider the worst, but quite another indeed to extend that consideration to a certainty that it IS the worst, because it isn't!
That, of course, is why the wait for the biopsy results can be excruciating...
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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