#1995 02-22-2004 03:26 PM | Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,163 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | OP  Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,163 | Hello to all my friends at OCF.
Tomorrow I return to work!!!!! Tuesday I have my PEG tube removed!!!! It's really the first day of my new life. I intend to make the best of it. I was in sales and enjoyed it allot. Due to my voice being a little screwy they offered a production manager position to me. Scheduling crews, ordering materials and customer service.
I still want to sell due to meeting new people everyday. I enjoy meeting new people and the selling was very natural for me.
Looking forward to getting up at 5am again and to actually due something constructive. I now realize being off for 8 months was way to long for me. My wife and I purchased a new home in October and I finaly got my basement workshop completed,painted the walls and floor. Installed shelving sections floor to cieling 3' deep and 24' long. My wife is a pack rat!!!! Also installed a new pool table. It gets allot of use.
Thanks for letting me ramble on!!!
Dan Bogan
Daniel Bogan DX 7/16/03 Right tonsil,SCC T4NOMO. right side neck disection, IMRT Radiation x 33.
Recurrance in June 05 in right tonsil area. Now receiving palliative chemo (Erbitux) starting 3/9/06
Our good friend and loved member of the forum has passed away RIP Dannyboy 7-16-2006
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#1996 02-22-2004 04:34 PM | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 372 "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 372 | Way to go Dan...I am so excited for you! My husband was also in sales and was in the middle of a transfer to run an office for Arbitron in Birmingham, AL. He was supposed to go in Jan...and they are holding it all for him for hopefully maybe April or so, we'll see! I am layed off now which is good because these are some dark days right now, but looking forward to better times...like where you are now! I am so happy for you and your family and enjoy your new home and job!!
Deb
Debbie - Caregiver for husband, Dan, diagnosed with tongue cancer 7/03. Partial gloss., mod. neck dissections, graft. Recurrence neck tumor 12/03. Radical left neck dissection 12/24/03-unable to get all the tumor. 8 weeks chemo/rad beginning 1/12/04.
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#1997 02-22-2004 04:34 PM | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 139 Gold Member (100+ posts) | | Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 139 | Hooray, Hooray!!
What a long haul and you are arriving at the end of the tunnel. I am so happy for you, Dan! And proud of you too! You give us all hope when we need it!
God bless you! and Thanks :p
Judy U
Judy U
Stage I SCC floor of mouth, left radical neck dissection 8/03
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#1998 02-22-2004 06:11 PM | Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 458 Platinum Member (300+ posts) | | Platinum Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 458 | Good deal Dan.
The first day back to work is sometimes a nervous one, how will people react, etc, but is also a great feeling. One of the major milestones of recovery.
Good luck.
Bob
SCC Tongue, stage IV diagnosed Sept, 2002, 1st radical neck dissection left side in Sept, followed by RAD/Chemo. Discovered spread to right side nodes March 2003, second radical neck dissection April, followed by more RAD/Chemo.
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#1999 02-22-2004 07:56 PM | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 45 Contributing Member (25+ posts) | | Contributing Member (25+ posts)
Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 45 |
Khaja
SCC Base of Tongue Stage IV. Diagnosed 12/02
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#2000 02-22-2004 08:43 PM | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 261 Gold Member (200+ posts) | | Gold Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 261 |
dx 2/11/04 scca bot T3 IU 2B MO poorly differentiated, margins ok, 3/16 modest, jaw split, over half of tongue removed, free flap from left forearm - finished chemo & rad treatment 5/20/04
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#2001 02-23-2004 12:41 AM | | Anonymous Unregistered | | Anonymous Unregistered
| Yeah Dan,
See, that light at the end of the tunnel wasn't an oncoming train. It was the one hanging over the pool table.
Best of luck to you, and being in sales also, I can tell you that my voice did come back. I just carry a bottle of water in my briefcase. (and don't have to use it quite as much as before)
You'll do well at whatever job you perform. You are that kind of person.
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#2002 02-23-2004 06:40 AM | Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,116 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,116 | WAY TO GO!!!!!!!Congratulations, Dan!!!!!God Bless you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Keep Looking Up!!!!!!!!
Diagnosed May 2002 with Stage IV tongue cancer, two lymph nodes positive. Surgery to remove 1/2 tongue, neck dissection, 35 radiation treatments. 11/2007, diagnosed with cancer of soft palate, surgery 12/14/07, jaw split. 3/24/10, cancer on tongue behind flap, need petscan, surgery scheduled 4/16/10
---update passed away 8-27-11---
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#2003 02-23-2004 01:17 PM | Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 642 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 642 | Congratulations Dan,
I am impressed by your energy level and your desire to get back to work. Those things return a lot more slowly for many people.
Best of luck,
Danny G.
Stage IV Base of Tongue SCC
Diagnosed July 1, 2002, chemo and radiation treatments completed beginning of Sept/02.
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#2004 02-28-2004 05:13 PM | Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 235 Gold Member (200+ posts) | | Gold Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 235 | Very cool. Glad to hear things are on the right track. Take care and enjoy.
Mom's caregvr. DDS failed to dx 01/03. Dx Stg IV SCC 05/03. Induct. chemo, IMRT, 5FU, H, Iressa, Neck disect, radiation. Dad's caregvr. Dx 01/04 Ext. Stg SCLC. Mets to liver/bone 08/04. Died 11/12/04. Mom tongue CA dx 06/13, hemiglossectomy (80% removed) 08/13. Clean margins and nodes, but PNI. 6/15/15: Tongue CA at base of remnant tongue. Declined further tx; hospice.
Died 10/13/15. What a long and difficult journey.
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