| Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,082 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | OP Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,082 | Wow: this excerpt reads like my diary. It's from "Blindsided =Lifting A Life Above Illness - A Reluctant Memoir" by Richard M. Cohen (husband of Meredith Vierira of the View TV show) on discovering that in addition to Multiple Sclerosis, he had a recurrence of Colon Cancer[quote]
The Cancer had indeed come roaring back. This turn of events was hard to believe and almost impossible to put into perspective. I had not made it a full year. A barge was struggling up the Hudson. I always seem to be moving against the current, I thought. ......A voice inside me told me to toe the line, to remain calm and go for it. There was no bravery here, no p;osturing, only me taking the path of least resistance. I felt numb but intended to survive. Souting in anger was pointless; moaning and groaning a waste of time. Life is not fair. There is no one to sue. Surgery this time would be aggressive and invasive.[/quote] 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
| | | | Joined: May 2002 Posts: 2,152 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: May 2002 Posts: 2,152 | Let's put this in the 'been there, done that' column and hope we don't have to do it again. We know the feeling well.
Take care, Eileen
---------------------- Aug 1997 unknown primary, Stage III mets to 1 lymph node in neck; rt ND, 36 XRT rad Aug 2001 tiny tumor on larynx, Stage I total laryngectomy; left ND June 5, 2010 dx early stage breast cancer June 9, 2011 SCC 1.5 cm hypo pharynx, 70% P-16 positive, no mets, Stage I
| | | | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | AMEN to that (but not necessarily stated as an unsolicited religious position).!
SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0 Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03 Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08. Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11 Cervical Myelitis 09/12 Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12 Dysautonomia 11/12 Hospice care 09/12-01/13. COPD 01/14 Intermittent CHF 6/15 Feeding tube NPO 03/16 VFI 12/2016 ORN 12/2017 Cardiac Event 06/2018 Bilateral VFI 01/2021 Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022 Bilateral VFI 05/2022 Total Laryngectomy 01/2023
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