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#15299 05-03-2004 09:18 AM | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 162 Gold Member (100+ posts) |  Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 162 | Hey Flyboy -- thumbs up and keep 'em flying. Do you get a chance to fly any? I haven't flown in over two years now although I have a commercial ASEL with IRA. I don't know if I could pass the medical even though I'm in pretty good health (all things considered of course). Maybe one of these days I'll get the chance at PIC again, but it's too expensive to consider right now. Anyway, glad you checked in.
-Brett
Base of Tongue SCC. Stage IV, T1N2bM0. Diagnosed 25 July 2003.
Treated with 6 weeks induction chemo -- Taxol & Carboplatin once a week followed with 30 fractions IMRT, 10 fields per fraction over 6 more weeks. Recurrence October 2005.
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#15300 05-03-2004 02:03 PM | Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 4 Member | | OP Member
Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 4 | Wow, great posts from the UK to Hong Kong to KC and TX and MD and in between. I've always been a traveler, mostly to meet the people. Here you all are, 18 inches from my eyeballs.
These posts have shown me I'm not nuts thinking this cancer changes a person.... for the better. Sure, we end up with our "bag of hammers" to carry through life. But life is a whole lot better in the sense of, well, just about every aspect I can think of.
Brett, your not quite a year out. You will actually feel better than you do now because this stuff takes a long time for our bodies to heal. I just had my flight physical today for the second time since recovery. The doc says I'm great but the FAA always puts a snag limit into the works. Never-the-less, I fly a couple hundred hours a year, mostly for business and I love the freedom up there. Hope you figure out a way to get back in the air when your health comes back. we can get waivers for all sorts of things these days except I haven't met any blind pilots, yet anyway.
Glad you all checked in to say hello and welcome. Isn't it grand to meet people from all over the world? Flyboy28n
Tumor in tonsil pillar and soft tissue. 11/01 surgery & 7wks rad.
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#15301 05-03-2004 03:42 PM | 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 | Flyboy,
It is really great to have you hear and glad to see you are getting up to speed real quick. You know, there are actually more tools in that bag than just hammers. My big brother always told me if you can't fix it with a hammer...get a bigger hammer!
Ed
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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