#35226 05-29-2007 04:22 AM | Joined: May 2007 Posts: 44 Contributing Member (25+ posts) | OP Contributing Member (25+ posts) Joined: May 2007 Posts: 44 | Today Rich and I are headed to Ann Arbor to the Cancer center at the U of M Hospital..I'm really scared no matter what the news or what Rich's decision is our lives will never be the same. I joined a this board and while reading others posts offers some hope its also very frightening. The treatments are hell to go though for people who start off healthy and Rich is far from that.So after today our lives will either be filled with hospitals, pain and illness for several months, or hospice and planning for a peaceful death with as little pain as possible depending on how far it has spread. We will find that out tomorrow. Please keep us in your prayers. My Doggies too. They are being boarded for the first time and we are scared about that too. Thanks Julie | | |
#35227 05-29-2007 04:59 AM | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 525 "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) | "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 525 | WE WILL WALK WITH YOU!
Believe in Your God and Trust Him. We all share your pain. There is no easy answer. Only the hard truths. I do not know how, but we make it. We hold each others hands and walk together. And never lose sight that at the twilight of "this life", there is a beautiful new one awaiting us. There is no end, only a beginning. It is a road we all must travel, with or without cancer.
We will all be praying for you. And I truely believe that Dogs are People too!
God Loves You! Petey
DX 3-21-07 L tongue,SCC Stage IV (T3N2MO) TX Slash/Burn/Poison Method. ***Rapid Aggressive Recurrence 8-4-07 with same DX/TX. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. Never Give Up! ****UPDATE**** Our dear friend Petey passed away, RIP 9-2-07
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#35228 05-29-2007 05:42 AM | Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,116 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,116 | Julie, my thoughts are with you and Rich.....and your doggies.......please let us know how everything goes....I am praying for good results! 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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#35229 05-29-2007 06:22 AM | Joined: May 2007 Posts: 231 Gold Member (200+ posts) | Gold Member (200+ posts) Joined: May 2007 Posts: 231 | I too will be praying for you and your family Julie. I can tell you that God has used this experience in my life to draw me closer to Him and to also draw my family closer together.I have 4 children with on of them being a 10 year old daughter who was scared to death when this all first started. She has been a real trooper and has been there right by daddies side the whole way. Try not to let your imagination get the best of you but yet let God take this and do with it as He will.
You are in our prayers Julie, Billy
Dx Mar 07 with Base Of Tongue Stage IV. IMRT 35x with 3 doses Cysplatin ran concurrent. Tx ended May 31,07. Left and right node involved. Radical neck disection 7/18/07
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