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#26442 05-29-2004 11:40 AM | Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 274 Platinum Member (200+ posts) |  Platinum Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 274 | Diane,
You are welcome and I'm glad if it helped. Believe me, I had the wedge resection and the guy next to me had the lobectomy and we both did great! I can't speak for the cure, but the sugery is not too bad.
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#26443 05-29-2004 11:40 PM | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 207 Platinum Member (200+ posts) | | Platinum Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 207 | Helen -- as per your "controversial" comment about men. I know I'd be completely lost without my wonderful wife... She's been a true saint through all of this...
Tongue cancer (SCC), diagnosed Oct. 2003 (T2 N0 M0). Surgery to remove tumor. IMRT Radiation 30x in Dec 2003 - Jan. 2004. Recurrence lymph node - radical neck dissection June 2004. Second round of rad/chemo treatments ended Sept. 2004.
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#26444 05-31-2004 05:14 PM | 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 | Helen, Funny thing is you could take the sentence, "Men, you can't live with them and you can't live without them.", substitute "Women" for "Men" and the meaning stays the same.  (I am sure my 13 year old has some technical term for that type of sentence.) 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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