#15570 06-02-2004 10:09 AM | 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 | Robert,
Thank you for the double-dose of g-r-r-r-r-r-e-a-t news! I know you had a rough night the other night just like we all do but it turned out just fine. I hope you enjoy that wonderful gift of God, your new son! There is not much that compares to the miracle of birth.
May God continue to bless you!
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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#15571 06-02-2004 10:22 AM | Joined: May 2003 Posts: 928 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: May 2003 Posts: 928 | Oh Boy Robert ..did we need some good news around here...woooohooo. Clean scan AND new baby boy.
Congratulations on both.
Cheers Marica
Caregiver to husband Pete, Dx 4/03 SCC Base of Tongue Stage IV. Chemo /Rad no surgery. Treatment finished 8/03. Doing great!
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#15572 06-02-2004 10:28 AM | Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 146 Gold Member (100+ posts) | | Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 146 | Congratulations on the great news Robert! We sure could use some here right about now. And a new baby to boot? That's wonderful. I hope you are able to reach every milestone you have planned with the newest member of your family. We all just have to keep on believing - I know I'm trying my hardest to do so.
Nancy
Stage IV oral cancer (tongue), T3N2, total glossectomy with right and left modified neck dissection 7/03, rad /chemo ended 11/03
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#15573 06-02-2004 04:55 PM | Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 | Robert, I cried when I read your post and then showed it to my 20 year old daughter. I can't express how happy I am for you. I also understand how you are feeling about your brand new miracle, parents with cancer have a hard time seeing into the long term future with their kids. My youngest is 10 and I have two grandaughters, ages 4 and 6. Here is how it worked out for me: Starting out, I convinced myself I would be happy to "make it" to Sam's (my youngest daughter) High School graduation. Then, I "upped" it to seeing my grandaughters graduate. Then it struck me that all three of them would need me around when they had their own children, what if they had careers.........who would watch their babies so they didn't have to go to daycare????????? So, I concluded that I will just have to stay around to be that "cute" 90 year old I have always figured I would be. My two grandaughters have never seen day one in a daycare center thanks to "Nana", just seems fair that I do it for all of them  !! So, up the ante Robert...............and we'll talk about this again in, say, 20 years??? Much love and kiss the baby for me. Minnie
SCC Left Mandible. Jaw replaced with bone from leg. Neck disection, 37 radiation treatments. Recurrence 8-28-07, stage 2, tongue. One third of tongue removed 10-4-07. 5-23-08 chemo started for tumor behind swallowing passage, Our good friend and much loved OCF member Minnie has been lost to the disease (RIP 10-29-08). We will all miss her greatly.
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#15574 06-02-2004 04:59 PM | Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,384 Likes: 1 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,384 Likes: 1 | Robert, A hearty congratulations on both chunks of good news. Don't you just love the feeling when the doc says "your OK!"
Take care
Mark, 21 Year survivor, SCC right tonsil, 3 nodes positive, one with extra-capsular spread. I never asked what stage (would have scared me anyway) Right side tonsillectomy, radical neck dissection right side, maximum radiation to both sides, no chemo, no PEG, age 40 when diagnosed.
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