#3277 08-10-2004 06:38 PM | Joined: May 2004 Posts: 137 Gold Member (100+ posts) | OP  Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 137 | We hear so many sad things on here I thought if I might share a story with you. I live in Las Vegas and out here we have year around schools, my first born Grandson just started the 1st Grade. His teacher asked the students to each tell the class a story about a family member. It could be Mommy, Daddy, Sister or Brother etc. Well my little 6 year old Grandson told a story about me. It over welmed the teacher so that she called my daughter and told her about it. He told the class that he had the best Grandma and Papa in the whole world. But Grandma is very sick with a big bug called CANCER. She can't talk to me right now but she clapps her hands when I do something that is funny. I go over and take care of my Grandma, I help her alot and she makes me cookies. I wish her doctor could take the big bug away and let my Grandma come back. He then told that the next time he and his Moma go to the store he was going to buy some bug spray, for Grandma....How sweet is that,,,Miss Vicki---And you ask why I chose the surgery??? | | |
#3278 08-10-2004 11:43 PM | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 30 Contributing Member (25+ posts) | | Contributing Member (25+ posts)
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 30 | Miss Vicki,
Aren't Grandchildren something? They keep you going and make you want to keep going. My youngest Granddaughter who is 7 told everyone she saw in stores, everywhere, Grandma was fighting cancer. My prayers are with you Miss Vicki and your family.
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#3279 08-11-2004 03:36 AM | Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 382 Likes: 3 Platinum Member (300+ posts) | | Platinum Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 382 Likes: 3 | Miss Vicki-
What a great story! Fighting the beast so we can make more memories for our families is the best reward!! The only good thing that comes with this disease is that it gives you at the very least some time to get your priorities in order. And hugs from grandkids are the greatest!!! Take time to make good memories, take lots of pictures and enjoy every day of your life. It is worth the fight!! Hope to meet in September! - Kris
SCC Stage IV left tonsil neck disection 3/02 radiation finished 6/02 chemo finished 9/02
Stage 2A left breast cancer 3/09, chemo and radiation, finished treatment 2/7/10 -Stage 2 right beast cancer 10/14 chemo and radiation
Every day is still a gift :-)
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#3280 08-11-2004 04:16 AM | Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,116 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,116 | Vicki, that is the cutest story I have heard in a while, thanks so much for sharing...SMILE!! Love, Carol
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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#3281 08-11-2004 04:48 AM | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,140 Likes: 1 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,140 Likes: 1 | Thank you, thank you, thank you! | | |
#3282 08-11-2004 07:59 AM | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 417 "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 417 | Vicki:
Grandchildren are a blessing. My youngest grandchild, youngest of 5, saw me taking my ensure meal through my Peg tube recently. Her mother explained, "That's the way Poppa eats his meals". That did not satisfy her curiosity, she came to me and basically asked me why I had to eat that way. I didn't know what to say knowing at age 3 she knew nothing about cancer, radiation side effects, etc. So I just told her that Poppa was sick in his throat and could not swallow, which seemed to satisfy her. She now reminds her mother to call me daily so she can ask me about my throat.
Darrell
Stage 3, T3,N1,M0,SCC, Base of Tongue. No Surgery, Radiationx39, Chemo, Taxol & Carboplatin Weekly 8 Treatments 2004. Age 60. Recurrence 2/06, SCC, Chest & Neck (Sub clavean), Remission 8/06. Recurrence SCC 12/10/06 Chest.
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#3283 08-11-2004 11:46 AM | Joined: May 2004 Posts: 137 Gold Member (100+ posts) | | OP Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 137 | Darrell how sweet is that. MY other Grandson he is five, saw me as well. I do go into another room when I fed, but they are nosy as you well know, he seen me ran back into the living room at the top of his little voice screaming Grandma has a water hose stuck in her. LOL. I laughed so hard at that.. He cannot read yet, well he can his name, that is about it. Well I cannot talk, so when I point to him to be nice, which he knows what I am doing, because he is doing somthing that he shouldn't be doing. He will put his hand up to his ear and say Grandma I can understand you, write it down for me. Like he could read it. We all just crack up on that one. I love it tho. He understands me when he wants to tho..They are precious and they are some of the reasons I live for. The four of them make it all worth it. Always Vicki Lynn,. | | |
#3284 08-11-2004 05:52 PM | Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 | I used a syringe to do my tube feedings, not a bag. My five year old grandaughter, Shelby, became quite proficient at handling it for me. Many times when I would be on this very board, typing away or reading words of comfort, she would be standing beside me, doing my tube feeding. She found it fascinating. The fact that she loved to tell anyone that would listen,even strangers, about the tube in my stomach was a little unnerving at times but I just let her ramble on!
SCC Left Mandible. Jaw replaced with bone from leg. Neck disection, 37 radiation treatments. Recurrence 8-28-07, stage 2, tongue. One third of tongue removed 10-4-07. 5-23-08 chemo started for tumor behind swallowing passage, Our good friend and much loved OCF member Minnie has been lost to the disease (RIP 10-29-08). We will all miss her greatly.
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#3285 08-12-2004 09:37 AM | 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 | Miss Vicki,
From just the little bit I have learned of you from this board, I know your grandson is so special because of you! Thank you so much for the great story and may you have many, many more every day.
Thank you everyone for the great stories. From the time I got the big diagnosis I have remembered so many times when my son was about 5 and after a really good weekend with my father, my son took my hand and said you sure will be a good grandpa, just like your daddy. I have prayed a few times now for God to grant me that opportunity.
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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#3286 08-12-2004 09:41 AM | Joined: May 2004 Posts: 137 Gold Member (100+ posts) | | OP Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 137 | Thank you Ed for that sweet and dear post, I cannot wait to meet you next month...I have misplaced the event schedule can you please try to find it for me. I would hate to miss meeting everyone esp. when I live here. Thank you, Vicki | | |
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