#3065 07-23-2004 05:23 AM | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | OP  Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | I really am so sorry to have to tell all of you this but Lynn Furlich passed away this morning. She was a very brave lady and seldom spoke of the last several weeks of intense pain. She wanted so bad to have the opportunity to meet some of you in Las Vegas. She loved all of you so much and I know from talking with her that each and every one on this board touched her in so many ways.
Please pray for her husband Mike and her two daughters, Rachel (4) and Sara (2). I am so thankful that her pain has ended. If anyone wishes to send flowers or anything, I will let you know the church her services will be at as soon as I find out.
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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#3066 07-23-2004 05:28 AM | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 162 Gold Member (100+ posts) | | Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 162 | Thanks for posting this, Ed. I'm so choked up I can barely type...
Base of Tongue SCC. Stage IV, T1N2bM0. Diagnosed 25 July 2003.
Treated with 6 weeks induction chemo -- Taxol & Carboplatin once a week followed with 30 fractions IMRT, 10 fields per fraction over 6 more weeks. Recurrence October 2005.
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#3067 07-23-2004 05:38 AM | Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 146 Gold Member (100+ posts) | | Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 146 | Ed,
Thanks for posting to let us know. I don't know what to say except that I'll continue praying for her husband and two young daughters. This is just so sad but I'm grateful that her suffering and pain has ended. God bless
Stage IV oral cancer (tongue), T3N2, total glossectomy with right and left modified neck dissection 7/03, rad /chemo ended 11/03
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#3068 07-23-2004 06:02 AM | Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Although we could see this coming it is still shocking and very sad to lose one of our own. Lynn was in service to all of us right up until the end. She had the heart of a warrior and fought a valiant fight. We will miss her on the boards. I will keep her family in my prayers.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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#3069 07-23-2004 06:04 AM | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | OP Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | Lynn's services will be held July 31, 10:00 a.m. at:
Church of Christ South Macarthur
1401 South Macarthur Boulevard
Irving, TX 75060
I posted the news on Lynn with mixed emotions. I know how bad news permeates our soul when we are in the struggles created by this disease. But I know, in my heart, that Lynn would want us all to rejoice in the blessings she had experienced in her life. She was so proud of her family and spoke of them often. She was strong in faith. I wanted to share a particular message she sent me as she was planning on a "girl's time out" to New York City.
"My word how much can one family take? I keep asking myself and maybe I should stop because it keeps getting shoveled on us.
1. I was rear-ended in my van with Sally in the vehicle, we're okay
2. Mike was hit and run in Farmers Branch, he's okay
3. Mike is having laser surgery for a torn retina today
4. Sally has an ear infection
5. We're supposed to go on vacation next week
6. We had a check stolen out of our mailbox and the check was washed and altered, luckily the credit union caught it.
But gee how strong does God think I am? I would appreciate you approaching His throne and asking for help on our behalf."
She later attributed it all to just "life" and said she just supposed with the cancer on top of everything else, it seemed more of a burden than usual. This was many weeks after she told me the doctors had explained to her the lung mets would take her life soon. By the way, I did thank her for having so much faith in me and my relationship with God to ask me to intervene on her behalf.
Please take just a moment today and smile for Lynn. Go back and read a couple of her posts. Even during her darkest moments she made every attempt to help us all and rain an abundance of sunshine on us!
God bless!
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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#3070 07-23-2004 06:47 AM | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 261 Gold Member (200+ posts) | | Gold Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 261 | I'm in shock. She is a special lady. She will not be forgotten by me & I'm sure many others. Lynn was very encouraging to me with emails & even a phone call when I was at my lowest. I had no idea she was so sick. SHIT,SHIT,SHIT!!! I wish we all could have met under other circumstances, like a friendship board or one big party or anything but OUR circumstances. But we certainly wouldn't have the closeness & compassion we share here. I'm not a person that has a lot of close friends, but I am proud to have called Lynn one of mine. I am not religious, but my thoughts & prayers are with Lynn and her family.
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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#3071 07-23-2004 08:39 AM | Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 44 Contributing Member (25+ posts) | | Contributing Member (25+ posts)
Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 44 | God blessed us with her in our lives - however briefly. What an honour and miracle.  I feel so sad that her babies will only know their mama through the memories/stories of family and friends. I gotta tell you guys - I REALLY HATE this F'ing disease! I'm so angry I could spit but I'm so stinking overwhelmed all I can do is cry. This ugly cancer thing throws new twists to the lives of everyone it touches and I'M stinking TIRED!!!
Caregiver to Uptown/Ed, SCC Stage IV, Base of tongue - Completed Chemo (Cisplatnin/5FU) and 45 days' simultaneous Radiation 10/08/03
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#3072 07-23-2004 10:12 AM | Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,163 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,163 | I take comfort in knowing Lynn suffers no more. I don't know what to type. God bless her family in there darkest hour. I am stunned!! Lynn sent me private messages when she heard of my met's to my lungs. She was a special person. Her input will be missed.
Dan
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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#3073 07-23-2004 11:04 AM | Joined: May 2004 Posts: 80 Senior Member (75+ posts) | | Senior Member (75+ posts)
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 80 | thank you, ed, for posting the news about lynn.
i didn't know her as long as many of you have, but i have an image of her as a very warm and generous person who helped others when she herself was struggling. i hope her family can take comfort in knowing that she was respected and loved by many people here and, more importantly, that she is now in peace.
may her family and friends be able to start their healing from this experience soon. may her memory be their light.
gita
sister diagnosed 11/03 SCC maxilla keratenizing stg IV T1N1Mx; 4-7 positive lymph nodes; dissection 12/03 left upper pallette removd; radiaton left side 35 sessions 2/04-4/04; recurrence same side 4/04; chemo began 5/04 incl cisplatine, 5fu, taxotere
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#3074 07-23-2004 11:07 AM | Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,384 Likes: 1 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,384 Likes: 1 | Several moments of silence and "fare thee well" to Lynn (member 1197 for those who would like to search her posts).............................................................................................................................................................................. ...................................................................................................................................................................(Link to Lynn's last 50 postings http://www.oralcancerfoundation.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=recent_user_posts;u=00001197 Every time this happens I start to believe we need a shrink to help us through the loss. I have missed saying things I dearly wanted to say to several souls that have left us before I had my chance. I wish Lynn had let us know...There may be a tendancy to keep quiet when the end is near, to spare us from the reality of this disease. I know I can take it, I think I need to have it. It brings some closure. Lynn didn't know it but I was following her posts and situation closely. Because she was the same age (as me when I was diagnosed) and had young children (as do I) there was a connection that she may not have been aware of, out here in the cyber world. As I am typing this I do realize I have been using (I) as in ME quite a bit. (back to the shrink again). Substitute WE if you want because I think I am not alone in these feelings. I also realize I am rambling....because I can't find the right words for this moment. I am leaning towards words like Erik K's four letter Hiku poetry with Uptown girls abbreviated option running a close second. My heart is with the family Lynn leaves behind, may they find peace and comfort soon.
Mark, 21 Year survivor, SCC right tonsil, 3 nodes positive, one with extra-capsular spread. I never asked what stage (would have scared me anyway) Right side tonsillectomy, radical neck dissection right side, maximum radiation to both sides, no chemo, no PEG, age 40 when diagnosed.
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