#3564 09-07-2004 07:01 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 | Back to the left coast, I haven't heard the Hokey Pokey since elementary school, and certainly not at a wedding! It seems that I have been missing out. Story of my life ... | | |
#3565 09-07-2004 11:33 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 | Hey Bob, Glad to hear the last x-ray is normal. (I told you so :p )
Hypothyroid symptoms include shortness of breath. The thyroid imbalance makes the blood less able to carry oxygen. It is part of the whole metabolic slowing which comes with hypothyroid. If you have had the test recently then this post is for the benefit of all the other readers, if you haven't then go for it.
See you in Vegas!
No comment about the Hokey Pokey!
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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#3566 09-07-2004 04:01 PM | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 546 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 546 | Aw, c'mon Mark, No comment on the Hokey Pokey? It is definitely an East Coast tradition. We even learned it in phys ed class in elementary school. C'mon now, everybody join in: Put your left foot in, Put your left foot out, Put your left foot in, Now you shake it all about....... or something like that anyway!!! Smiles, giggles & grins,    Rosie
Was primary caregiver to my daughter Heather who had stage IV base of tongue SCC w/ primary recurrence. Original diagnosis August 21st, 2002. Primary recurrence March 18th, 2003. Died October 6th, 2003.
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#3567 09-08-2004 07:22 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 | Gary, What if...THAT really is what it is all about?  Gotta get the bumper sticker! 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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#3568 09-08-2004 07:49 AM | Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 72 Supporting Member (50+ posts) | | Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 72 | From my California childhood I recall that it went something like this "You put your left foot in, take your left foot out, Put your left foot in and you shake it all about. Do the hokey pokey and turn yourself around. That's what its all about!" And it may be!! - Candace
Sister of guy w/base of tongue cancer, Stage IV, Dx 4/03, finished Tx 9/03
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#3569 09-08-2004 09:26 AM | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,244 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,244 | Ok guys even in England this is a well know tradition but here it's the 'okey kokey' :rolleyes: same end result. 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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#3570 09-08-2004 05:30 PM | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 372 "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 372 | Like Gary, we always did the Hokey Pokey at the roller ring...most fun being "put your back side in, put your back side out, put your back side in and shake it all about and we surely did that. Living in Alabama now, I'll have to ask what ya'll did here! Trying to get use to the lingo!
Bob - isn't "normal" such a soothing word to hear now?! I like normal more than ever!
So glad for your news and you are in my prayers everyday.
Deb
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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#3571 09-09-2004 03:21 AM | Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 458 Platinum Member (300+ posts) | | OP Platinum Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 458 | Thanks Debbie, "Normal" is nice to hear, at least on the health scene. I've always sort of prided myself on being slightly un-normal otherwise. Like doing the duck dance when everyone else was doing the hokey pokey.
Guess I'm going to have duck dance and hokey pokey at the banquet.
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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