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Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 142 | Wow maybe you should teach classes on how to go through treatment for cancer without missing a beat. I ended up in ICU for 11 days due to the pain meds.
55 12/17/09 High Grade Muceopidermoid Carcinoma Alerted by Largo my Mini Schnauzer
1/18/10 Clr PET
1/27/10 Surgery found Perineural invasion
3/22/10 Began Rad
05/05/10 34 rads
8/19/10 Clr Pet Scan
12/13/10 Clr Ultra sound/biopsy
5/4/11 MRI Clear
8/2/11 All Clear
5/25/12 All Clear
6/3/2016 All Clear
5/25/2025 All Clear
| | | | | Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 27 Contributing Member (25+ posts) | | OP Contributing Member (25+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 27 | I have the mask. I named him Ray Beam. See caringbridge.org/visit/randyessex for a picture of Ray wearing the Panama hat I bought to protect me from the sun.
David, the radiation oncologist was more impressed that I'm still eating mostly solid food (eggs, bologna [which I can still taste, oddly enough], corn, and a black bean/guacamole soup my wife devised) than that I am still exercising.
Randy, Stage 3 tonsil SCC, node involvement, HPV-positive. 7 sessions of Taxol-Carboplatin, 35 rads finished 9/8/10. Post-TX PET and CT 12/1 showed "no metabolic evidence of residual or recurrent disease." Yay!
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Joined: May 2010 Posts: 48 | Glad to hear that you are doing so well!!!!!! 
Charles
HPV +16 Right Tonsil SCC with 1 Right lymph node. Tonsillectomy and neck resection.
Got 33 radiation doses via tomo machine (58 gry to back of throat, 65 gry to right neck, and 56 gry to left neck) with 2 cisplatin and one carboplatin due to possible hearing loss.
| | | | | Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 27 Contributing Member (25+ posts) | | OP Contributing Member (25+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 27 | Getting off pain meds this week and going back to work Oct. 11. Still kind of tired as the radiation continues to work � and tired of my mouth feeling dirty � but otherwise doing well and feeling good.
Randy, Stage 3 tonsil SCC, node involvement, HPV-positive. 7 sessions of Taxol-Carboplatin, 35 rads finished 9/8/10. Post-TX PET and CT 12/1 showed "no metabolic evidence of residual or recurrent disease." Yay!
| | | | | Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 8 Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 8 | You must be feeling pretty good to be ready to return to work so soon. You will still see more improvements for the next 2 years. Best of luck with returning to work. PS Thanks for sharing your caring bridge journal. Great pics
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 | | |
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