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Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 148 Likes: 1 | Hello My New BFF's !!! I have been cancer free now for 1yr & 2mo. Yay ! I can't eat so many of my old fav. foods, or know what is like not to have a "desert" mouth...but who cares, I'm here to talk about it ! By getting cancer, I finally lost the 45 Lbs. of "Baby-Fat" that I carried around for 21 years. ! Now that I am not mad @ God anymore, I feel very blessed, grateful and humble. For me the worst part of my experience, was having to tell my 79 year old parent's. The out pouring of love will stay w/me forever. My Bot was treated with 38 RT, 4 rounds of Chemo, then 2 mo. after RT ended, I had 5 rounds of gastroscamy's for throat strictures. I had a PEG for6 months. I have still have my "port" in. It's kinda like my security blanket ! Chemo Doc. says, leave it in until I reach my 2nd yr. (6-20-10) anniversary. Guess What ? I went to a Clam Bake today, and found that I was able to eat (small) steamed clams !!! I discovered this after I stared at it for 10 minutes !!! I still think its only the melted butter I was after anyway ! Thanks for this forum ! Dianne
BOT T3N2M0 No surgery, 38radiation treatments,4 chemo rounds, peg removed 11/08, still have a port. Treatments ended 6/20/08. So far, so Good ! "I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much !"
*** Admin update --- Dianne has passed away on August 25, 2015 ***
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Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 253 | Dianne:
Nice to hear from the longer time survivor. I'm only 3 months out. Congratulatins!!!!
I certainly understand the eating issues. I'm still playing around with food. Although I don't suffer from total dry mouth, the change in saliva has certainly made it more difficult to eat solid food. I'm glad you could enjoy a treat (clams).
Sandy
Sandy 56, BOT SCC Biopsy 1/21/09 Stage 3, T3NXM0.
Finished 3 cycle induction chemotherapy 4/7/09. (Chisplatin, 5-fu and Texotere). Re-staged 4/20/09,(very successful.) Will start Carboplatin/radiation 2 Gy/5 days/7 weeks (Tomotherapy) starting May 4th. Finished 6/22/09.
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Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 229 | Welcome, you're going to absolutely love it here. Great group of people.
Yea on being a survivor!! Congratulations!
Patty
08-10-09 Partial Glossectomy w/suprahyoid neck dissection
SCC T1NOMX Stage I | 46 years old
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Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 711 | Hi, Dianne. We're right together here, I was declared cancer free last aug. Welcome to the forum, hope you enjoy your time here.
David R. 65 yr old male non-smoker, light drinker, stage 3 or 4, depending on which doc you ask, scc rt. tonsil, 2 nodes, 7 weeks radiation and chemo. No surgery. Teatment ended 3/20/08. PET scan 8/08 showed no cancer.
And now, as of oct, 2010, caregiver to wife, Linda, with breast cancer.
May, 2013, Linda diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer. Enuf already.
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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 | Welcome to our home and it's good to have another positive thinker at the table. I do have to ask, could you taste the clams or was it just the being able to eat them???I hate to see new members here, but welcome them with open arms.
Since posting this. UPMC, Pittsburgh, Oct 2011 until Jan. I averaged about 2 to 3 surgeries a week there. w Can't have jaw made as bone is deteroriating steaily that is left in jaw. Mersa is to blame. Feeding tube . Had trach for 4mos. Got it out April.
--- Passed away 5/14/14, will be greatly missed by everyone here
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Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 8,311 | Diane,
Way to go and congratulations on the one year mark.
Update your Signature Line and you won't have to repeat yourself everytime you post.
David
Age 58 at Dx, HPV16+ SCC, Stage IV BOT+2 nodes, non smoker, casual drinker, exercise nut, Cisplatin x 3 & concurrent IMRT x 35,(70 Gy), no surgery, no Peg, Tx at Moffitt over Aug 06. Jun 07, back to riding my bike 100 miles a wk. Now doing 12 Spin classes and 60 outdoor miles per wk. Nov 13 completed Hilly Century ride for Cancer, 104 miles, 1st Place in my age group. Apr 2014 & 15, Spun for 9 straight hrs to raise $$ for YMCA's Livestrong Program. Certified Spin Instructor Jun 2014.
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Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 1,004 | Hi Dianne....and welcome to OCF. It's always nice to hear about survivors!!
Suzanne
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T1 SCC on right side of tongue
Age 31...27 when diagnosed
4 partial glossectomies
No chemo or radiation
Biopsy on 2/2/10-Clear
Surgery needed again...no later than April 2011
Loving life and just became a mother on 11/25/10
It's not what we CAN'T do..it's what we CAN do:)
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Joined: May 2009 Posts: 1,412 | Hi Dianne and welcome. Glad you joined us. It is great to hear another positive story and another survivor.
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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Joined: May 2008 Posts: 357 | Hi, Dianne -
I'm 1 yr., 4 months Cancer Free! I lost a little over 40 lbs of that darn baby fat, too. Now I gotta keep it off.
Congratulations!
Marlene
Marginal mandibulectomy 6/17/08 resulted in DX of Stage I SCC - gingiva (3 mm) right mandible, buccal side. Clear margins. Occasional social drinker. Smoked last cigarette in 1979. Clear pet: 12/08; 7/20/09. Yay!
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Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,357 Likes: 5 | Welcome to the forum. I know you have lots to contribute to help those going through treatment. I chuckled at your statement re the melted butter - I do believe that any food (even Fear Factor foods) covered in melted butter would be wonderful!
Donna
Donna,69, SCC L Tongue T2N1MO Stg IV 4/04 w/partial gloss;32 radtx; T2N2M0 Stg IV; R tongue-2nd partial gloss w/graft 10/07; 30 radtx/2 cispl 2/08. 3rd Oral Cancer surgery 1/22 - Stage 1. 2022 surgery eliminated swallowing and bottom left jaw. Now a “Tubie for Life”.no food envy - Thank God! Surviving isn't easy!!!! .Proudly Canadian - YES, UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE IS WONDERFUL! (Not perfect but definitely WONDERFUL)
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