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#27510 07-16-2005 03:36 AM | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 68 Supporting Member (50+ posts) | | Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 68 | Waiting is the hard part. You sit around and think of all of terrible things it could be. Talk to your doctor and tell him your fears. Get a second opinion if it will make you feel better and then try to put all of this behind you.
Mucoepidermoid carcinoma-intermediate grade. Removed 3/05. Additional surgery to get clean margins and selective neck dissection 4/05. 30 lymph nodes removed. All clear!!
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#27511 07-16-2005 08:36 AM | Joined: May 2003 Posts: 928 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: May 2003 Posts: 928 | Youngster
Your imagination is running riot with you!
Please stop reading all this STUFF until you get a handle on what is going on with you . You are scaring yourself SILLY!
Please,, just do what you have to to make yourself feel better but you are not "screwed", a bit screwed up maybe, but not "screwed".
Marica
Caregiver to husband Pete, Dx 4/03 SCC Base of Tongue Stage IV. Chemo /Rad no surgery. Treatment finished 8/03. Doing great!
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#27512 07-16-2005 10:47 AM | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,244 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,244 | Perhaps we should have a section for hypochondriacs
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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