#2439 05-08-2004 03:24 PM | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 30 Contributing Member (25+ posts) | OP  Contributing Member (25+ posts)
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 30 | To all you mother's out there,
Happy Mother's Day!!
So many of you have truly inspired me. I am not a mother, but I couldn't have gotten through all this without my mother's love and support.
I hope you all get treated like queens!
Have a great Day,
Love Sharon
Right Radical Neck Disection 2/02, 7 wks Rad. rgt side 04/03, 15% of tongue removed 08/03, Lung Met 05/04, lung surgery removed 8 nodules and 4 lymph nodes in chest all SCC
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#2440 05-08-2004 05:35 PM | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 372 "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 372 | Yes, do have a "Happy Mother's Day"...my mom is in the hospital for the 4th time this year unable to take deep breaths and hard to breathe at times....they have taken many tests and cannot find the source of the problem. They usually get her drugs for pain management and then send her home again.! She is 65 and on medicare and 2 weeks ago we tried to tell my mom and dad that they need to move her down to John Hopkins and find out what is wrong. Sometimes local hospitals do not want to be helpful like that, but if I have learned anything thru Dan's cancer...it's to be proactive and persistent. They are talking about trying to get her to Hopkins beginning of week. My mother-in-law is a totally "awesome" strong and courageous and caring woman...we are best friends. She lost her husband and Dan's father to cancer of the esophagus 10 years ago. He was an alcoholic and heavy smoker, and in a few wars so we attributed his cancer to that. Now that one of his sons has oral cancer, we are wondering about the gene factor! Anyway, I have a very thankful husband who is alive and recuperating....at this point I feel very blessed as he is coming along and that I have two grown boys and we all getting along well...I pray my mom will be okay..but God is good and I do feel very blessed as a Mother!
Thanks Sharon for your thoughtful note!
Debbie
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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#2441 05-09-2004 01:15 AM | Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 143 Gold Member (100+ posts) | | Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 143 | Happy Mother`s Day to All Us Moms........and Debbie, I`m also wondering about the genetic factor, breast cancer has a genetic factor, diabetes has a genetic factor, so who knows, maybe oral cancer does also........Hugs Dee | | |
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