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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 595 | Good luck and best wishes for your outcome on Thursday!!! Semper-Fi Bob
Bob age 57, non smoker,non drinker, ended treatment on 11 Nov 2007 and started back to work on 29 Nov 2007. Veterans Day 2012 the Battle was lowered, folded, Taps was played and the Flag buried as I am know a 5 year survivor. Semper-FI !!!
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Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 49 | Hi Nate! Yay tomorrow will finally arrive!! I wish you the best recovery! My dad had surgery a month ago and he is fine now, as if nothing happened, you too will feel great after treatment is done  Best wishes!
My Dad:
Squamous Cell Carcinoma,Stage 2, Right side of Tongue
Dx 7/19/10
Partial glossectomy and neck dissection 8/18/10
Reocurrence: 04/2011 Base/back of Tongue right side
Surgery: Partial glossectomy, flap 06/15/2011
Rad and Chemo finished on Sept/ Oct 2011
Recovery and assimilation. Enjoying life
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Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 17 | Hi Nate - i'm a patient at MD Anderson in Houston too! i had a 1/2 neck disection in May 2010. LET ME TELL you, they do an AWESOME job. you can't even tell i had it. the drain bottles they hook to your neck are gross when you go into recovery. BUT just know that's just like a week and they'll be gone. you are in GREAT HANDS you will do fine. and just know you have the best surgeons in the World helping you!!!! the scar will fade. i'm four months and you really can't tell UNLESS you are looking for it. i met a gal from MD anderson who had a full neck disection in 3/2008. you can't see squat on her neck today.
man, you are going to pull thru this, and be so much better. one week of tubes and crude, but that is what the pain meds are for!
My prayers are so with you tonight. you are going to get thru this, and a year from now, you won't be the wiser. there's some weird kinks in some nerves they mess with, but that will go away in 6-8 weeks.
God Bless you Nate!
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Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 157 | I am headed in my friends...I will truly have all of you in my hearts this morning. I am ready to take the next step to recovery, too late for advice or opinions now, just think about me and that is all I ask. You are all so wonderful and I will be thinking of you all the step of the way. Much Love!
Nathan
SCC left lateral tongue, left neck dissection. 2 nodes positive. 3 All Clear then ITS BACK 8/23/11 Shows 1cm in tongue in CT SCAN, Radial Free Arm Flap with Radical Neck Dissection 9/20/11 , All Nodes Negative, But Tongue Tumor Poorly Differentiated. Awaiting next step in treatment on 10/5/11... RIP Nate 7/28/12
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Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 2,671 | We're all thinking about you, Nate - wishing you the best and sending u positive vibes!
Anne-Marie
CG to son, Paul (age 33, non-smoker) SCC Stage 2, Surgery 9/21/06, 1/6 tongue Rt.side removed, +48 lymph nodes neck. IMRTx28 completed 12/19/06. CT scan 7/8/10 Cancer-free! ("spot" on lung from scar tissue related to Pneumonia.)
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Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 138 | Can't wait to hear from you after surgery and how well you're doing. Best wishes from a fellow neck dissection pal.
BOT-SCC Partial glossectomy 7/16/09.
Stage IV, Rt ND 10/2/09.
Teeth out 11/5/09.
Port/peg in, 11/20/09.
7 wks rad & chemo, end 1/22/10
lung, colon biopsies 1/9/11 - both cancer
colon resect surg 1/10/11
Folfox + Avastin - discontinued 6/11
lung surgery 3/13/12, 5/1/12
mets to liver and bones
passed away 9/4/13
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Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 329 | Nate,
Your in my thoughts and prayers. You'll pull out of this with flying colors hang in there. We're all pulling for you.
Please keep us posted.
Connie
SCC. of the left lateral tongue, anterior two thirds, T1 possibly a T2.
Left partial glossectomy, left selective neck dissection 4/21/09. Nodes clean, No Rad, No Chemo.
CT Scan 9/11 clean, CT Scan 9/12 clean
Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL. A+.
My hometown Lockport, NY.
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Joined: May 2010 Posts: 37 | Nate! You shall pull through this. Extra prayer's are headed your
way!
Many Hugg's
Roz
Stage 1V scc of toncil 12/1/09
Peg in 01/18/10
35 rads 3 cisplatin
tx ended 03/02/10
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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | Nate, thinking of you. Waiting to hear that all is ok. Sending prayers.
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 2006 Posts: 757 Likes: 1 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 757 Likes: 1 | Nate,
I hope all went well. I've been keeping you in my prayers.
Susan
SCC R-Lateral tongue, T1N0M0
Age 47 at Dx, non-smoker, casual drinker, HPV-
Surgery: June 2005
RT: Feb-Apr 2006
HBOT: 45 in 2008; 30 in 2013; 30 in 2022 -> Total 105!
Recurrence/Surgeries: Jan & Apr 2010
Biopsy 2/2011: Moderate dysplasia
Surgery 4/2011: Mild dysplasia
Dental issues: 2013-2025 (ORN of lower jaw)
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