#12648 10-22-2007 12:36 PM | Joined: May 2007 Posts: 231 Gold Member (200+ posts) | OP  Gold Member (200+ posts)
Joined: May 2007 Posts: 231 | Hey yall,
Just wanted to ask that yall keep me in your prayers. I have the surgery tomorrow to remove the scar tissue caused by my trach tube. If all goes as planned it will only take about 30 minutes and I will come home without the trach tube. : )
Billy
Dx Mar 07 with Base Of Tongue Stage IV. IMRT 35x with 3 doses Cysplatin ran concurrent. Tx ended May 31,07. Left and right node involved. Radical neck disection 7/18/07
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#12649 10-22-2007 12:50 PM | Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 510 "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 510 | ...you already KNOW we'll be praying for you...continuously....God bless you, Billy!
Lois & Buzz in NC
CG to 77 y/o hubby;SCC Alveolar Ridge; Wake Forest Baptist Hosp surgery: 07/19/07; bi mod radical resection/jaw replacement;
T2 N2-B M0 Stage IV-A
28 IMRT +
6 Paclitaxel/Carboplatin
Getting stronger every day!
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#12650 10-22-2007 01:14 PM | Joined: May 2007 Posts: 231 Gold Member (200+ posts) | | OP Gold Member (200+ posts)
Joined: May 2007 Posts: 231 | God bless you too my dear. Buzz doin ok??
Dx Mar 07 with Base Of Tongue Stage IV. IMRT 35x with 3 doses Cysplatin ran concurrent. Tx ended May 31,07. Left and right node involved. Radical neck disection 7/18/07
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#12651 10-22-2007 02:04 PM | Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 167 Likes: 1 Senior Member (100+ posts) | | Senior Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 167 Likes: 1 | Good luck Billy. On 11-02 I get to have my iv port removed. This should feel like another milestone you have achieved. That is how I look at mine coming up. BB 
Bill B. Dx 10-16-06 Stage 4 T2N2bM0 SCC Left Tonsil,3 nodes. 1st tx 11-28-06, last tx 1-8-07. 3x Cisplatlin, 5fu pump, and Doxetaxel. Modified neck dissection,20 Nodes removed, all clear 02-21-07. HPV+,33 IMRT start 3-22-07 70GY,Completed 05-04-07 | | |
#12652 10-22-2007 02:33 PM | Joined: May 2007 Posts: 231 Gold Member (200+ posts) | | OP Gold Member (200+ posts)
Joined: May 2007 Posts: 231 | I also ate some chicken today so it shouldnt be long till I get this crappy peg tube out.
Dx Mar 07 with Base Of Tongue Stage IV. IMRT 35x with 3 doses Cysplatin ran concurrent. Tx ended May 31,07. Left and right node involved. Radical neck disection 7/18/07
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#12653 10-22-2007 03:10 PM | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 179 Gold Member (100+ posts) | | Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 179 | Keeping you in our prayers Billy, will keep watching for your posts. That is great news about the Chicken. One step at a time. Take care-LJ
CG to husband 53,39 rads. 3 rds cisplastin ended 6/2/07 Tonsils removed 1.10.07 11 of 20 nodes positive- lump removed on rt. side of neck 1/26/07 cancer of nasal pharnyx TXN2MX 2nd rd. of chemo- carbo/taxol on 6/11/07
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#12654 10-22-2007 08:16 PM | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 528 "OCF Down Under" "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | | "OCF Down Under" "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 528 | Thinking of you Billy. Love from Helen
RHTonsil SCC Stage IV tx completed May 03
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#12655 10-22-2007 11:09 PM | Joined: May 2007 Posts: 632 "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts)
Joined: May 2007 Posts: 632 | So pleased you've reached this milestone Billy--will be thinking of you.
Watch out for chicken bones tho!!
Brenda
Brenda in UK--Diagnosis 30/5/07--undifferentiated carcinoma in right jawbone and muscles. Stage 4
6/7/07--new diagnosis primary is in lung. Finished 4cycles of palliative carboplatin/gemcitabine
therapy September 07
Now dying to live!
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#12656 10-23-2007 02:40 AM | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 794 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 794 | Hi Billy,
Got you on my prayer list!
Donna
CG to Mom, dx 4/25/07 with tongue cancer,T3N0,tx began 7/6/07, 31 tx's of IMRT, 8 cycles of Erbitux. Brachytherapy, surgery, left neck dissection and temp trach placed all on 9/17/07, trach removed 10/17/07. ORN of jaw, late effect of radiation symptoms. **lost my beautiful mother on 5/5/11.
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#12657 10-23-2007 06:11 AM | Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 | You are in my prayers as is everyone with this nasty thing. One more thing tho.. Make sure the chicken is defeathered. LOL Have a great day.
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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