#4208 10-28-2004 02:46 AM | Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 837 "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) | OP  "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 837 | As I look out the window this morning, it's a beautiful autumn day, and I am conscious that an old wound has healed. Back years ago when I was first experiencing tongue symptoms and trying to find an explanation, I was also living with the (relatively) fresh memory in Red Sox Nation of that symbolic dagger through the heart when the ball went through Bill Buckner's legs and the hopes of a Boston World championship were dashed once more. Some said it was the Curse of the Bambino, some said it was part of a world order that would keep the Sox from winning (ever), and I began to wonder if I would be among those who would go to their grave without ever seeing another Sox victory in a World Series.
NOT SO!! THANK YOU, RED SOX!!
The wound has healed.
Cathy
Tongue SCC (T2M0N0), poorly differentiated, diagnosed 3/89, partial glossectomy and neck dissection 4/89, radiation from early June to late August 1989
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#4209 10-28-2004 08:56 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 | Have any ideas how to help the Kansas Jayhawks win the national bball title this year? I will endure the pain of the wound if so.
:p
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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#4210 10-28-2004 10:37 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 | Way to go RED SOX! Love ya! Do it again next year.
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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#4211 10-28-2004 11:51 AM | Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 274 Platinum Member (200+ posts) | | Platinum Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 274 | Next year? At one championship every 86 years it would be more like the year 2090. Let me check my math........yep, 2090. | | |
#4212 10-28-2004 05:15 PM | Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 458 Platinum Member (300+ posts) | | Platinum Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 458 | As a native St. Louisan and Card's fan, whilst I would have rather seen the Cards win it in 5, at least we didn't lose to the Yankees..
Congratualtions Sox fans on a good win.
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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#4213 10-28-2004 05:38 PM | Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 274 Platinum Member (200+ posts) | | Platinum Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 274 | I will give them this, 8 straight games. And the 3 game sweep of Anaheim in the ALDS. Bob is correct, a good win.
Still, I hope all you Boston fans taped it so future generations can see them win a World Series! I don't think they had moving pictures last time. | | |
#4214 10-29-2004 06:18 AM | Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,163 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,163 | Go Brewers!!! Who are they? Lowest payroll in baseball (27 million). Like watching a triple A team.
Congrat's to the Red Sox!!!!
Danny Boy
Daniel Bogan DX 7/16/03 Right tonsil,SCC T4NOMO. right side neck disection, IMRT Radiation x 33.
Recurrance in June 05 in right tonsil area. Now receiving palliative chemo (Erbitux) starting 3/9/06
Our good friend and loved member of the forum has passed away RIP Dannyboy 7-16-2006
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#4215 10-29-2004 08:26 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 | Danny Boy,
It is good to hear at least one team is doing their part in controlling the exhorbitant salaries these prima donna athletes are commanding!
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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#4216 10-29-2004 10:44 AM | Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 | I grew up in Maine and our summer trip was always to Fenway Park in Boston, home of the Red Sox. We always stayed at the Fenway Park Motel as the ballplayers would eat breakfast in their small cafe. My mom ate breakfast one year with Juan Benequez and didn't even know it until my little brother came in and couldn't speak for a few minutes! My mom has that amazing ability of making friends with the entire room within minutes of entering it.
My brother has the Yaz's autograph and he has shook hands and gotten pitching tips from Ted Williams himself. Ted was dear friends with the coach of my brothers little league team and he had a fishing camp near us in Maine. My brother won the New England Pitch, Hit and Throw contest when he was 9 (at Fenway Park) because of the instruction from these two men.
Sandy Kofax and his wife, Ann, came to Maine many times to visit my inlaws, long time friends of theirs. My older daughters had more then a few lobster dinners with them but had no idea what a wonderful guy was at their table.
Back then sports celebritys were just regular people and lived regular lives for the most part.
I had the BIGGEST crush on Carlton Fisk but don't tell anyone.
Minnie
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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#4217 10-29-2004 01:20 PM | Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 642 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 642 | Congrats to the Red Sox...well deserved. We Astros fans had the best season in our history, but we have been waiting for over 40 yrs just to get to the world series...maybe next year.
Danny G.
Stage IV Base of Tongue SCC
Diagnosed July 1, 2002, chemo and radiation treatments completed beginning of Sept/02.
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