#3440 08-25-2004 05:44 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 | Welcome home Helen and a speedy recovery. Miss ya on the board.
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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#3441 08-25-2004 09:13 AM | Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 106 Senior Member (100+ posts) | | Senior Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 106 | Welcome back, Helen,
glad you are home. I'm sending you lots of healing thoughts and hugs.
Leena
scc right tonsil T1N1M0, right tonsillectomy + modified neck dissection 3/04, radiation IMRT both sides X33 ended 6/04.
Also had renal cell carcinoma, left kidney removed 11/04
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#3442 08-25-2004 10:03 AM | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 372 "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 372 | Hey Helen,
PRAISE GOD you are home...I pray and think about you everyday and am so glad that you get to sleep in your own bed finally! When you feel better, let me know how you are doing with this surgery!
Take care,
Love,
Debbie
Debbie - Caregiver for husband, Dan, diagnosed with tongue cancer 7/03. Partial gloss., mod. neck dissections, graft. Recurrence neck tumor 12/03. Radical left neck dissection 12/24/03-unable to get all the tumor. 8 weeks chemo/rad beginning 1/12/04.
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#3443 08-25-2004 01:20 PM | Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 458 Platinum Member (300+ posts) | | Platinum Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 458 | Wecome back Helen, getting home is great isn't it. Glad to see you're back. Hope to hear from you soon.
Bob
SCC Tongue, stage IV diagnosed Sept, 2002, 1st radical neck dissection left side in Sept, followed by RAD/Chemo. Discovered spread to right side nodes March 2003, second radical neck dissection April, followed by more RAD/Chemo.
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#3444 08-25-2004 02:27 PM | Joined: May 2004 Posts: 80 Senior Member (75+ posts) | | Senior Member (75+ posts)
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 80 | welcome home, helen! enjoy the sunshine, and keep that smile and the cool shades.
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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#3445 08-26-2004 09:54 AM | Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 4 Member | | Member
Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 4 | welcome back big sis i love you more than you will ever know
Love you
Mick.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | | |
#3446 08-27-2004 05:37 PM | Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 62 Supporting Member (50+ posts) | | Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 62 | Welcome back Helen and warm wishes for a speedy recovery.
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#3447 08-27-2004 09:17 PM | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,244 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | OP Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,244 | Hi everyone
Thanks so much for all your kind wishes, and yes I'm doing well, still nil by mouth, but the flap to my tongue and soft palate appears to be healing well, the trachy site is healing slowly but I'm talking and I appear most of the time to make sense, well as much as normal!!!
And to my baby brother, I love you so much and I could not have done this with out your help. luv ya brov...
Sunshine...love and hugs
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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#3448 08-28-2004 02:23 AM | Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 217 Platinum Member (200+ posts) | | Platinum Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 217 | Hi, Helen I'm pretty new here, but I've been following your journey through these posts. I can see that you've been a great support person for so many on this site - and it is obvious that this family holds you in high regard. Allow me to add my best wishes for a full recovery - quickly. It is a cool, sunny morning here in the piedmont region of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, and my husband and I just came in from morning prayers in the lovely prayer garden he created for us. We've just planted pink rose shrubs and one has been dedicated to this special group of people who have already helped us as we start in on our fight with cancer. We will count on your perpetual "Sunshine" to keep us - and the roses - thriving!  Nicki
Nicki, wife of Thomas
dx July 2004, SCC, Stage 4 Tonsil. Tx begun 8/4/04. Cisplatin/Xeloda x 4; IMRT 7 wks, 8/7 - 10/25/04 Modified Radical Dissection (right), Selective Dissection (Left) 12/10/04.
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#3449 09-01-2004 03:30 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,
I am sorry I missed your homecoming! I am so glad you are doing well. Sending you a little love!
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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