#1924 12-24-2003 04:03 AM | Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 246 Platinum Member (200+ posts) | OP  Platinum Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 246 | Dear Friends:
Apologies for being away from the OCF board for a few weeks but I promise, I had a good reason and was with you in spirit throughout the process. As some of you know, Dave and I are both long distance doctoral students at the University of Texas in Galveston and were working diligently (and we thought that was stressful!) on our studies before we discovered Dave had oral cancer. The experience of being with him during the process and now has been so profound for me that I have changed my original dissertation topic and will now study the effects of an oral cancer diagnosis on the caregivers/partners of those with the disease since, as we know, there is a giant toll on the survivor and those closest to him/her. In any case, I have been away briefly because I was reading lots on oral cancer and partners of cancer survivors and putting the finishing touches on the proposal and travelling to Texas to do the candidacy defense. There will be more info about the actual study appearing on the board in the next few months and I am hoping some of you will participate so we can raise awareness. More on that later...today I really want to thanks to all of you who stand by Dave and myself daily and give us faith, clarity, and a safe place to vent.
There are many twisted gifts in the cancer experience and I want to share that to me, meeting all of you and now doing meaningful doctoral work (which I hope represents our collective voice) is by far the best gift I have been given this holiday season and I am grateful.
Wishing all of you a restful and healthy holiday.
Best,
Kim
(and Dave too!)
kcdc
Wife of Dave,diagnosed with Stage III Tonsillar SCC,August '02
Modified radical neck dissection followed by radiation therapy
'There is glory and radiance in the darkness and to see we have only to look"
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#1925 12-24-2003 05:32 AM | Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 49 Contributing Member (25+ posts) | | Contributing Member (25+ posts)
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 49 | Merry Christmas and a very good new year to you, with good health at the top of the list.
5-02 SCC T1N1M0 Stage 3 Right Tonsil
6-02 Right Radical Neck Disection
9-03 Recurrent SCC Dx Stage 4 unknown prim
12-03 7 Chemo
12-03 36 Rad
5-04 Left Upper Lung Wedge Resection neg
7-04 Right Parotidectomy
9-04 Began IMRT
10-04 Ended IMRT
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#1926 12-24-2003 05:34 AM | Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 49 Contributing Member (25+ posts) | | Contributing Member (25+ posts)
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 49 | Also to everyone else on this site. Keep strong and courages through the next year.
5-02 SCC T1N1M0 Stage 3 Right Tonsil
6-02 Right Radical Neck Disection
9-03 Recurrent SCC Dx Stage 4 unknown prim
12-03 7 Chemo
12-03 36 Rad
5-04 Left Upper Lung Wedge Resection neg
7-04 Right Parotidectomy
9-04 Began IMRT
10-04 Ended IMRT
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#1927 12-24-2003 07:02 AM | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,244 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,244 | Hi Everyone
Happy Christmas from across the water, this is our main holiday here during the year, so I send you all my warmest wishes and my sincere thanks to you all for your support when the going got tough.
:rolleyes:
Happy 2004 may we all journey through it safely.
God Bless You All
Love and Hugs
Helen
SCC Base of tongue, (TISN0M0) laser surgery, 10/01 and 05/03 no clear margins. Radial free flap graft to tonsil pillar, partial glossectomy, left neck dissection 08/04
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#1928 12-24-2003 07:09 AM | Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 41 Contributing Member (25+ posts) | | Contributing Member (25+ posts)
Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 41 | Hi everyone,
I too would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. And as many of my parishioners are emphasizing to me a healthy New Year. I will be remembering all of you as I celebrate the Masses for Christmas.
Peace,
Fr. Mike
Fr. Mike
SCC on the base of tongue, right side. T2 N1 M0. July 25, 2003 partial (40%) glossectomy, forearm flap reconstruction, right side neck disection.
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#1929 12-24-2003 08:11 AM | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 139 Gold Member (100+ posts) | | Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 139 | God bless you all on this most blessed of days! Will be praying for all and thank you, Fr. Mike, for remembering us in your Masses.
Judy U
Judy U
Stage I SCC floor of mouth, left radical neck dissection 8/03
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#1930 12-29-2003 02:22 AM | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 17 Member | | Member
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 17 | Late for the Merry Christmas wishes but will add in another Happy New Year to you both. We all hope for a better year in 2004....
Please keep me updated on your dissertation project, I'd be glad to help in any way I can. I had hoped to be done with the active caretaker role but looks like I'm back into it again!
Our Story: http://hncancer.com Husband: Mike, age 62 SCC soft palate, Stage IVa, [T2 N2c M0] Diagnosed 4/16/01, Palatectomy, Partial Pharyngectomy, Comprehensive Radical Left Neck Dissection 7/25/01, 30 Radiation treatments 9/10/01, Recurrent SCC Right Lymph Nodes 11/6/03, starting IMRT 12/29/03 & Cisplatin 12/30/03
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