#3309 08-16-2004 12:12 PM | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 116 Gold Member (100+ posts) | OP  Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 116 | Welcome, Mick,
I'm so glad Helen's condition is improving. I'm glad she was able to get our messages. Thank you for being a sweet brother!
Here's a message for you Helen: I've bought MORE SHOES in the hopes that I'll feel better and maybe you can feel better vicariously. I discovered a NINE WEST store in nearby Winston-Salem....You know how I have a Nine West shoe thang....and girl, I finally found my favorite Australian Merlot at Kroger. I stocked up. I am having a glass in your honor as I write this.
Get better, OK? We miss you around here.
Love and hugs to you,
Christine
Wife of Scott: SCC, Stage I retromolar 10/02--33 rad; recurrence 10/03--Docetaxol, 5FU, Cisplatin; 1/04 radical right neck, hard palate, right tonsil; recurrence 2/04--mets to skin and neck; Xeloda and palliative care 3/04-4/04; died 5/01/04.
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#3310 08-16-2004 06:26 PM | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 528 "OCF Down Under" "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | | "OCF Down Under" "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 528 | Wonderful to hear that Helen is improving. Boy, does that woman have attitude! Can't wait for her sunshine to grace the board again. Love from Helen in Oz 
RHTonsil SCC Stage IV tx completed May 03
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#3311 08-17-2004 06:13 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 | Welcome Mick,
It is great to have you in the neighborhood, too. You till your sister I am praying fervently for her and wish her the speediest recovery. This time, it is me sending her the sunshine and hugs!
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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#3312 08-17-2004 08:41 AM | Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 4 Member | | Member
Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 4 | hi again everybody Helen has had her tracheotomy out today and she is TALKING!! and she sounds the same as ever. she has to have a swallow test tomorrow and this is ok and there are no other problems she is hoping to come home on Friday and this is only the sixth day since her op
thank you all again
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#3313 08-17-2004 11:12 AM | Joined: May 2002 Posts: 2,152 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: May 2002 Posts: 2,152 | Goodness, that was quick. I thought she said 17 days in the hospital.
I am so glad she is recuperating so quickly and now talking. Not being able to talk is the pits in the hospital whne you are trying to tell the nurses something.
Hope they use her red wine for the swallow test. Bet she could get that down.
Tell her to take care,
Eileen
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Aug 1997 unknown primary, Stage III
mets to 1 lymph node in neck; rt ND, 36 XRT rad
Aug 2001 tiny tumor on larynx, Stage I total laryngectomy; left ND
June 5, 2010 dx early stage breast cancer
June 9, 2011 SCC 1.5 cm hypo pharynx, 70% P-16 positive, no mets, Stage I
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#3314 08-18-2004 02:51 AM | Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,116 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,116 | Good for Helen, this is awesome news!!!! Cannot wait til she is up to posting again! God Bless! 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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#3315 08-20-2004 01:57 AM | Joined: May 2004 Posts: 80 Senior Member (75+ posts) | | Senior Member (75+ posts)
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 80 | more sunshine to you, helen, and to you, mick. good thoughts for healing and peace.
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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#3316 08-26-2004 09:50 AM | Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 4 Member | | Member
Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 4 | hi all sorry iv'e not had time to report back as Helen came home on Monday and iv'e been rushed off my feet at home and work. But she is doing really well. she has her pc back on line so i'm sure she'll post something herself soon. But i would like to say the biggest thank you to you all for your messages, you cannot appreciate how much they have helped me cope with Helen's surgery, to know that there are other people out there who know what i'm going through was so helpful. I did'nt know about this web site and i've been having a good read and it has helped enourmously take care all of you and a final big thankyou Mick. Helen's little brother. | | |
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