#17661 06-23-2005 06:27 AM | Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) |  Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 | I hope your biopsy shows nothing cancerous. If it is cancerous, you can do what is needed. I had half my lower jaw removed and I worried what I would look like. Two years later people don't notice and I have to tell them what happened. I have a little fullness on the left side of my jaw but I seem to be the only one that notices it! Take it one step at a time. Whatever the outcome, the only choice you have is to move forward and do what you have to do.
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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#17662 06-23-2005 06:21 PM | Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 349 Likes: 2 Platinum Member (300+ posts) | | Platinum Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 349 Likes: 2 | Just another wish for the best possible diagnosis.
Also, you should know that sometimes the waiting is the hardest part, so be extra gentle to yourself while you are under all that stress.
Take a deep breath and know that we'll all be here for you whatever the results say.
Michael | 53 | SCC | Right Tonsil | Dx'd: 06-10-05 | STAGE IV, T3N2bM0 | 3 Nodes R Side | MRND & Tonsillectomy 06/29/05 Dr Fee/Stanford | 8 wks Rad/Chemo startd August 15th @ MSKCC, NY | Tx Ended: 09-27-05 | Cancer free at 16+ Yrs | After-Effects of Tx: Thyroid function is 0, ok salivary function, tinnitus, some scars, neck/face asymmetry, gastric reflux. 2017 dysphagia, L Carotid stent / 2019, R Carotid occluded not eligible for stent.2022 dental issues, possible ORN, memory/recall challenges.
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#17663 07-01-2005 11:32 PM | Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 20 Member | | OP Member
Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 20 | thank you everyone. Reading through posts on this forum has reassured me that even if the biopsy does show 'the worst' things are likely not to be as bad as I had imagined. I saw the G.P. with the painful swelling under my jaw this week and he said that the lymph nodes were swollen but not rock hard as he would expect if they were associated with a carcinoma. He told me to go ahead and have the biopsy, but not to worry. There are a lot of nasty bugs around my part of Oz at the moment, so one of them may be responsible. I hope it doesn't take too long to get the results of the biopsy after Wednesday. I just want to know 'yes' or 'no' so that I can either get on with my life or get onto the problem. | | |
#17664 07-06-2005 07:01 PM | Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 20 Member | | OP Member
Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 20 | I have the surgery yesterday. It feels like he has taken quite a lot from the inside of both cheeks and part of my gum. I am swollen and tender and taking panadene forte 6 hourly and rinsing with a dilute antibacterial-analgesic mouth wash, as well as being on a course of antibiotics. The wisdom tooth removal isn't really bothering me. I don't know which one he took to be truthful. It is my cheeks that hurt. I go back to see the surgeon on the 14th, next Thursday, to get the results. thank you for all of your kind thoughts. | | |
#17665 07-07-2005 02:34 AM | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 80 Senior Member (75+ posts) | | Senior Member (75+ posts)
Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 80 | I know how hard the "unknown" was on me. It was almost easier once I knew I had cancer and what I had to do. Best wishes for fast healing and no nasty cancer!
We will all be thinking of you and pulling for you!
Jennifer
Jennifer
Stage II (T2N0M0) SCC diag 4/21/05; partial glossectomy & selective neck dissection (good margins and lymyph nodes negative), jaw split, 1/3 of tongue removed, free flap from left forearm - 5/23/05; 42 years old at diagnosis
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