| OP   Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) 
 Joined:  May 2009 Posts: 1,412 |  I am a special education teacher.  I love my job and would not be able to survive if I didn't have it.  The school has been very good to me through this whole ordeal.  We have had meals brought to us almost everyday.  I have two more weeks until school is out for the summer.  I meet with my ENT next Wednesay for a check-up.  I have whole list of questions to ask, and my mother does also.  She is emailing me all her questions this weekend so I can ask the Dr. as well.  I also find that I have so many questiosn spinning through my head I do not even know how to get them out.  I do have two grandfathers that are a cancer survivors.  I do take comfort in that.  The worst thing so far is that I also had strep throat three days after surgery.  I caught it from my 6 year old.  I wa snot even thinking stay away from him before surgery.  I went into mommy mode and wanted to make sure he was okay.  This has been the hardest part of the whole thing is that I have not been able to play and talk to my kidds for very long periods of time.  I am sorry if I am writing a lot, but I have just now had time to sit down process and am still processing all this.  Too answer someone elses questions my ENT said it was a stage 1 and that my frozen sections came back clean, whatever all that means.  Thanks.
   Angelia
 31 at Dx.
 DX: 4/30/09, 10/21/09 SCC on floor of mouth,
 T1NOMO, T2N1M0
 TX: 39 IMRT, 8 cisplatin 11/30/09
 PET/CT: 11/03/09: Lymph node involvement
 PEG/PORT: 11/09
 TX end: 02/01/10
 PET Scan: 04/05/10 clear
 PEG Out: 06/21/10
 Biopsy: 12/23/10: fibrosis
 HBO: 01/04/11 - ORN
 Baby girl born 11-30-12
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