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Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,844 | When you are walking through a store and everyone stares at you but then averts their eyes when you notice them staring...I just wanted to tell the "Merry Frackin' Christmas"
I actually just wanted to be #200 on your post Charm, the stares don't bother me as much as they used to.
Merry Frackin Christmas everyone...let the whirlwind begin...
Young Frack, SCC T4N2M0, Cisplatin,35+ rads,ND, RT Mandiblectomy w fibular free flap, facial paralysis, "He who has a "why" to live can bear with almost any "how"." -Nietzche "WARNING" PG-13 due to Sarcasm & WAY too much attitude, interact at your own risk.
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Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,082 | Eric
Oh yeah, the stares. But I was already used to them since for the last five years, I have worn a full length Western Oilskin Duster overcoat replete with a big Black Aussie Outback Hat. A bit of a different style than the $400 Gucci loafer consultants with their $900 suits that I ate up.
What a perfect Christmas gift. #200 in a thread with over 11,000 views.
Trust me brother, I am Rocking around the Christmas tree this year. Thinking fondly of you and wishing you and your family all the best.
Charm
PS. Don't know if I mentioned this, but my son just got accepted into George Mason Law School for August 2010. Good thing, because with a major in Religious Studies, he would be unemployable. (Although proud as all get out that he is following in my Seminarian for Catholic Church, then Law School path)
65 yr Old Frack
Stage IV BOT T3N2M0 HPV 16+
2007:72GY IMRT(40) 8 ERBITUX No PEG
2008:CANCER BACK Salvage Surgery
25GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin
Apaghia /G button
2012: CANCER BACK -left tonsilar fossa
40GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin
Passed away 4-29-13
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Joined: May 2009 Posts: 1,412 | You three make me laugh.
I will add to this, I hate it when my husband cooks dinner for the rest of the family and I can not eat it. It is tradition for us to have a Japanese meal on Christmas Eve. The kids got to enjoy it, and so did my husband, but not me. My husband lived in Japan when he was young and had a favorite dish over there. Now he shares it every Christmas with us. I Hate that I could not enjoy it this year.
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 2009 Posts: 1,412 | Charm, congrats on your son getting accepted to Law School.
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: Apr 2005 Posts: 2,219 | Charm,
Thanks for sharing the great news about your son. Having two children that are lawyers, I know how exactly how you feel. Congratulations.
Angelia,
I'm sure that next year you will be sharing Japanese food with your family again.
Wippersnapper,
The way I calculate it, in about 2 years and 4 years respectively, you'll be as old as Charm and I am right now. So then you will be a senile old man. I'm counting the days already.
Seriously, it's not bad being senile.....you can get away with so much. What birthday? What anniversary?
Jerry
Retired Dentist, 59 years old at diagnosis. SCC of the left lateral border of the tongue (Stage I). Partial glossectomy and 30 nodes removed, 4/6/05. Nodes all clear. No chemo no radiation 18 year survivor.
"Whatever doesn't kill me, makes me stronger"
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Joined: Nov 2009 Posts: 396 | Charm,
congrats on your son! Thats fantastic news. You have a Merry Christmas!
teresa
Teresa
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CG to ANDY. Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma (NPC)
T2N2cMxG4 stage 4. 43 @ dx 8/31/09
tx 9/21/09-11/06/09 cispatin/docetaxel/5-FU X3
PORT 9/9/09, PEG 12/07/09
35 IMRT-1/wk carbo 11/30/09-2/3/10
tx stopped due to complications
IMRT BOOST 3/08-3/12/10
PET 4/12/10 CLEAR!
PEG out 4/14/10
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Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 8,311 | I'm ahead of you guys in that senile benefits class because I have been using the Chemo Brain excuse for 3 yeras now and it works!!
My favorites:
How could you forget? Sorry chemo brain;
I told you that just 2 days ago? Sorry chemo brain;
Don't you remember her name? Sorry chemo brain;
How could you remember what time the football game starts and you can't remember to pick up dog food? Sorry chemo brain, and
Where are you, your appointment is here waiting? Sorry chemo brain;
The worry free life just goes on and on.
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: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | Charm, you must be so proud of your son. Congrats to him on getting into law school 
ChristineSCC 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 | | | | | Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,844 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,844 | Charm,
Congratulations on your son, nothing like the pride you have in your children. I love the ensemble, who would question your badassness in that? Not I! (sorry that's my saying at the moment..."are you questioning my badassness?" a quote from a tv show)
Merry Christmas my friend, you deserve holiday cheer.
Eric
Young Frack, SCC T4N2M0, Cisplatin,35+ rads,ND, RT Mandiblectomy w fibular free flap, facial paralysis, "He who has a "why" to live can bear with almost any "how"." -Nietzche "WARNING" PG-13 due to Sarcasm & WAY too much attitude, interact at your own risk.
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Joined: May 2009 Posts: 1,412 | We have to keep ths thread going. I hate it when I try to be positive saying only 15 more treaments to go, and the person I am talking to says, "man, you have a long way to go yet." I am thinking in the whole scheme of things 15 treatments is not that much, considering how many i have done.
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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