Thanks for the support smile
I appreciate it very very much!!!!!

Margaret, it was so nice to meet you last year. Wish we could have had more time to chat. You amazed me by your ability to eat so soon after finishing treatments.

Jim, my pal. Dont you worry...I still owe you a steak dinner! Next year after you are finished with your surgery and Im healed from this setback the steak is on me smile

Lostpassword... Thank you so much for writing. It is so encouraging for me to see that soemone has gone thru this 4 times. Im so sorry your husband has had to do this that many times. He is proof it can be done!!!! Hope he is doing well and no more recurrances for him EVER.


I wont lie, Im scared. Getting a PEG tube and a trach is going to be difficult. I hated that darn tube more than anything else in my whole life. Facing life as someone who will have disfiguring facial scars is going to be rough. The big picture is that I can and will overcome this and move on as a better person because of all this.

Christine
SCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44
2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07
-65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr
Clear PET 1/08
4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I
surg 4/16/08 clr marg
215 HBO dives
3/09 teeth out, trismus
7/2/09 recur, Stg IV
8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy
3wks medicly inducd coma
2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit
PICC line IV antibx 8 mo
10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg
OC 3x in 3 years
very happy to be alive smile