 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,128 | Raymond, I can't say it's good news about what they plan to have to do to/for you, but it is good news that it hasn't spread too far!!!
Keep reading the forum for various tips from the experiences of the rest of us so your journey into this stuf is less of an unknown, to make parts of it easier and hopefully to avoid some of the after-effects. It will be a real roller-coaster ride for sure and we are all here to help each other get through it.
You might also consider having whoever is standing by you through all this read the forum also, because whatever they learn here will help both you and them.
Pete
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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