#55029 06-14-2004 02:18 PM | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 164 Gold Member (100+ posts) |  Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 164 | Carol,
I'm so happy it was nothing more serious. It's amazing how a foreign body can send your whole body into a tail spin. Great news!
Lynn
Stage 3, N0, M0 oral tongue cancer survivor, 85-90% of tongue removed, neck disection, left tonsil removed, chemo/radiation treatments, surgery 11/03, raditation ended 1/04, lung mets discovered 4/04,
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#55030 06-14-2004 03:54 PM | Joined: May 2004 Posts: 34 Contributing Member (25+ posts) | | Contributing Member (25+ posts)
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 34 | Carol L - funny how a stitch can cause such problems. Cathy's appears to be closing up and the drainage has stopped - they were giving her antibiotics. As for our names - my last name starts with "L" so I'm Carol L too but you already had taken the name so I couldn't register with it!
Caregiver/twin sister to Cathy diagnosed with tongue cancer Feb. 2004/partial glossectomy and neck dissection Mar 2004/recurrence may 2004
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#55031 06-14-2004 05:26 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 | If I had to say Carol L twice, my tongue won't do that. Try it...  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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#55032 06-15-2004 03:18 AM | Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,116 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | OP Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,116 |
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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